Instapaper Fetches 40 Articles

alessandro_q · 06-07-2011, 02:10 PM

When I use the Instapaper built-in recipe (or the recipe here) it only downloads the most recent 40 articles. As I often add more than 40 articles between fethces, this is a problem for me.

Is there a way to increase this number?

kovidgoyal · 06-07-2011, 02:17 PM

the number of articles depends on the number of articles in the RSS feed provided by instapaper, contact them and ask them to increase that number.

alessandro_q · 06-11-2011, 02:26 AM

Thanks very much for your reply Kovid. I contacted Instapaper this week but have yet to hear a reply. In the meantime, I propose the following solution:

On the instapaper page, download the html file of your feed. This contains up to 2,000 entries. It makes a numbered list of the links. If these links are prefaced with "http://www.instapaper.com/text?u=http%3A%2F%2F" they will produce the text versions we want.

Is there some process that Calibre could perform on this HTML file to produce a .mobi with the "articles and sections" list and the full feed in this way?

kovidgoyal · 06-11-2011, 11:05 AM

You can write a parse_index based recipe to do that. See the ny times example in the user manual

alessandro_q · 06-14-2011, 06:13 AM

After a week, I have determined that this is beyond my level of expertise

06-07-2011, 02:10 PM	#1
alessandro_q Member Posts: 23 Karma: 90010 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: Kindle 3	Instapaper Fetches 40 Articles When I use the Instapaper built-in recipe (or the recipe here) it only downloads the most recent 40 articles. As I often add more than 40 articles between fethces, this is a problem for me. Is there a way to increase this number?

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06-07-2011, 02:17 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 44,528 Karma: 24495948 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	the number of articles depends on the number of articles in the RSS feed provided by instapaper, contact them and ask them to increase that number.

06-11-2011, 02:26 AM	#3
alessandro_q Member Posts: 23 Karma: 90010 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: Kindle 3	Thanks very much for your reply Kovid. I contacted Instapaper this week but have yet to hear a reply. In the meantime, I propose the following solution: On the instapaper page, download the html file of your feed. This contains up to 2,000 entries. It makes a numbered list of the links. If these links are prefaced with "http://www.instapaper.com/text?u=http%3A%2F%2F" they will produce the text versions we want. Is there some process that Calibre could perform on this HTML file to produce a .mobi with the "articles and sections" list and the full feed in this way?

06-11-2011, 11:05 AM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 44,528 Karma: 24495948 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	You can write a parse_index based recipe to do that. See the ny times example in the user manual

06-14-2011, 06:13 AM	#5
alessandro_q Member Posts: 23 Karma: 90010 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: Kindle 3	After a week, I have determined that this is beyond my level of expertise

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