Questions about recipes

[moggie]

I have been building a recipe for a web site.

The issues I have are:

Setting an url for the cover seems to make everything fail, should it just be a string of an url of an image to be used on the cover ?

How can I set the metadata such as tags and author of the book generated by feeds2lrf from the recipe.

How can I feed in additional information such as a page reference so I can transform a user specified area ( should I over-ride the use of username for example ? )

How do I submit the recipe when I am happy with it ( even though Its the first python code I have done )

[kovidgoyal]

cover_url = 'http://whatever'

You can't set metadata (the author is always set to calibre)

There is no mechanism for additional user specified information, the idea being that downloading news should be as simple as point and click. What is your use case for this? You can override the use of username if you want, but that is a hack

Either attach it to the custom recipes thread or attach it to a new ticket on the calibre website.

[kiklop74]

Originally Posted by moggie

Setting an url for the cover seems to make everything fail, should it just be a string of an url of an image to be used on the cover ?

cover_url must be url that points to some image.

Originally Posted by moggie

How can I set the metadata such as tags and author of the book generated by feeds2lrf from the recipe.

For that you use html2lrf_options variable (see what options are available by executing html2lrf from command line)

For example:

    html2lrf_options = [ 
                         '--author', 'Authorname',
                         '--comment', 'somecoment',
                         '--category', 'somecategory'
                         '--publisher', 'somepublisher'
                       ]

Originally Posted by moggie

How can I feed in additional information such as a page reference so I can transform a user specified area ( should I over-ride the use of username for example ? )

This one I do not understand. Please clarify.

Originally Posted by moggie

How do I submit the recipe when I am happy with it ( even though Its the first python code I have done )

Use custom recipes sticky thread in this forum.