Podnews podcasting news recipe - remove feed index?

[jamescridland]

I've created an (official!) feed from my daily podcasting newsletter, which I'd like to submit once I'm happy with it.

One question - clearly, this has only one feed in it, and I'd like to remove the initial feed index page that has simply one entry in it (marked "The latest updates"). How can I do that?

What else could I do to make this recipe better?

#!/usr/bin/env python2
# vim:fileencoding=utf-8
from __future__ import unicode_literals, division, absolute_import, print_function
from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe

class AdvancedUserRecipe1544505300(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title          = 'Podnews podcasting news'
    author         = 'podnews.net'
    publisher      = 'Amazingly Brilliant Pty Ltd'
    description    = 'Your daily news briefing for podcast and on-demand'
    category       = 'podcasting,podcast,business,technology,news'
    language       = 'en'
    oldest_article = 7
    max_articles_per_feed = 14
    auto_cleanup   = False
    cover_url      = 'https://podnews.net/_static/_furniture/front-cover-calibre.jpeg'
    compress_news_images = True
    scale_news_images_to_device = True
    summary_length = 15
    handle_gzip    = True
    remove_tags = [dict(name='small', attrs={})]
    use_embedded_content = True    
    
    feeds          = [
        ('The latest updates', 'https://podnews.net/rss'),
    ]

[kovidgoyal]

if the destination format supports it calibre willautomatically remove the top level feed if there is only one. Some formats such as the kindle ones require a two level toc for periodicals.

[jamescridland]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

if the destination format supports it

OK - I'm using epub/Kobo, and it's a little ugly.

I wonder if I can build it in a different way - it's all my own content, so perhaps I should be producing a few little APIs for Calibre to make it look nice.

I wonder if there are any examples of daily newsletters within Calibre that I should be looking at?

[kovidgoyal]

almost all calibre recipes work by scraping websites, they dont use dedicated APIs, but if yu want to use them, feel free, you can do pretty much anything yu want in a calibre recipe, all the behaviors are fundamentally overridable.