First recipe: how to automatically add cover and filter out videos from RSS

[kindle87]

Hi, I'm completely new to writing recipes and would much appreciate any help with the following:

1) Is there a course in writing calibre recipes for beginners?
2) How do I automatically add a cover to a book downloaded via a recipe?
3) Is there a way to filter out posts with videos from an RSS I'm using for my recipe?

NB Sorry if I've missed an existing thread on the issues mentioned here, please direct me to one if you know any.

Many thanks

[kovidgoyal]

1. https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/news.html is the closest

2. Set cover_url in the recipe to point to the location of the cover image

3. If the video articles have a recognizable URL (i.e. is they have something like /video/ in them you can implement the print_version() method in your recipe and return None for the URL. Otherwise implement preprocess_soup() in your recipe, look for the video tag and call self.abort_article() when detected.

[bobbysteel]

Originally Posted by kindle87

Hi, I'm completely new to writing recipes and would much appreciate any help with the following:

1) Is there a course in writing calibre recipes for beginners?
2) How do I automatically add a cover to a book downloaded via a recipe?
3) Is there a way to filter out posts with videos from an RSS I'm using for my recipe?

NB Sorry if I've missed an existing thread on the issues mentioned here, please direct me to one if you know any.

Many thanks

The best way to learn is look at well used and highly maintained recipes like the NY Times, Economist and see how they do it.
https://calibre-ebook.com/dynamic/recipe-usage

(though @Kovid, what is #3?)

[kovidgoyal]

@bobbysteel: See for example the handelsblatt recipe