Calibre - Custom News Source - Ubuntu 10.10

2,788 views · Published 15 July 2011 · 17:02 · Indexed 23 September 2026

Channel: gotbletu · 2011 · Science & Technology

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calibre has a powerful, flexible and easy-to-use framework for downloading news from the Internet and converting it into an ebook. The following will show you, by means of examples, how to get news from various websites.

A recipe is a set of instructions that teach calibre how to convert an online news source, such as a magazine or a blog, into an ebook. A recipe is essentially Python code. As such, it is capable of converting arbitrarily complex news sources into ebooks. At the simplest level, it is just a set of variables, such as URLs, that give calibre enough information to go out onto the Internet and download the news.

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