How do I add these recipes?

The Terminator · 04-19-2011, 01:28 AM

Like the title said how do I add recipes to Calibre? I'm fairly new to the recipe thing.

P.S I'm running Calibre 0.8 beta.

Starson17 · 04-19-2011, 11:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by THE TERMINATOR

Like the title said how do I add recipes to Calibre? I'm fairly new to the recipe thing.

P.S I'm running Calibre 0.8 beta.

Go to the "Add a custom news source" dialog screen, which is reached from the black triangle to the right of the "Fetch News" button on Calibre's main toolbar. From there you can add a recipe.

blurpo · 05-07-2011, 03:13 PM

The title of this post covers my problem, but it's a different one: I'm downloading news using the command line on my server, then add it to the library, also from the command line.
To download news I use the ebook-convert command, but does this only work for built-in recipes?

How do I use custom recipes from the command line?

Thanks!

Starson17 · 05-09-2011, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by blurpo

How do I use custom recipes from the command line?

If your custom recipe is a separate file, then specify the filename. That's how most recipes are created and debugged, by running them from the command line (usually with the --test option). I'm not sure if it's possible to run a custom recipe from the command line that has been added to calibre via the calibre GUI. I'd simply save it to a file first, then run it.

blurpo · 05-13-2011, 04:11 PM

What I do is I use the GUI to create the custom recipe on my laptop. After saving it, I find the file in /home/username/.config/calibre/custom_recipes.

I hadn't realized the ebook-convert command also accepts filenames. Thanks!

(So the solution is: ebook-convert [recipe filename] myfile.[format, e.g epub or mobi] )

04-19-2011, 01:28 AM	#1
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05-07-2011, 03:13 PM	#3
blurpo Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2011 Device: Kindle 2 and 3	The title of this post covers my problem, but it's a different one: I'm downloading news using the command line on my server, then add it to the library, also from the command line. To download news I use the ebook-convert command, but does this only work for built-in recipes? How do I use custom recipes from the command line? Thanks!

05-13-2011, 04:11 PM	#5
blurpo Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2011 Device: Kindle 2 and 3	What I do is I use the GUI to create the custom recipe on my laptop. After saving it, I find the file in /home/username/.config/calibre/custom_recipes. I hadn't realized the ebook-convert command also accepts filenames. Thanks! (So the solution is: ebook-convert [recipe filename] myfile.[format, e.g epub or mobi] )

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