06-20-2011, 05:04 AM | #1 |
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Recipe for Reading Blog Feeds possible ?
Is this possible ?
A recipe that picks up a RSS feed containing items that include links to longer articles. It could be used to watch a blog or twitter feed that contains links to longer articles for reading later. I am thinking of sites / feeds like this :- Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. |
06-20-2011, 09:45 AM | #2 | ||
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06-20-2011, 10:41 AM | #3 |
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Normally a RSS feed contains a number of articles which contain the title and the body of the text.
RSS - Article - Title - Body I am looking for a solution where the RSS feed contains a number of articles which contain the title but inside the body of text is a URL to the actual article I want to read. RSS - Article - Title - Body - Link - Article - Title - Body https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Linklog If I use my current (working) RSS feed recipe I will end up with an ebook containing links to articles. I am hoping to have calibre go to the next link and pull that article in instead. Does that make more sense ? |
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You are asking about non-RSS feeds, aka a "linklog" or just a page that has links. Calibre can handle those as well. As I posted, parse_index is the tool for that job. Quote:
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06-20-2011, 11:08 AM | #5 |
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BTW, although parse_index is the preferred way to deal with this, you can also try using "recursions" which sets the depth that links will be followed. If your pages are clean, with only links to pages you want, this might do the job.
Also, I should warn you that linklogs where the links are to random pages of interest are poor fodder for recipes. Recipes need some consistency to the pages retrieved if it is going to remove ads, apply formatting, etc. If the links point to just any old random pages, and not to pages with common attributes, the recipe results will be poor. |
06-20-2011, 11:28 AM | #6 |
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OK , thanks for the answers , at least I know its possible and can give it a try.
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06-22-2011, 12:55 PM | #7 |
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Try these links for an RSS feed and go from there. It is much simpler and a recipe can be created with little difficulty.
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