Calibre Week In Review

Kovid just tagged the 0.6.33 release so it should be out the door later today. Only one major feature from me this week. The PRS driver can new customize what gets turned into a collection. The default was and is series and tags. Now under the device interface configuration you can specify any metadata field. The main use for this change is so people who have a large number of tags can disable collections being created from them....

January 10, 2010 · John

json and blogger

Today I decided to learn about json. To help me with this I coded a little python script I call blogger-updates.py. It takes the name of a blogger blog and optionally a number designating the number of entries to retrieve. I used Google’s blogger api to get the data. Updated to account for non numeric input when setting max entries. import json import sys import urllib2 def usage(): print sys.argv[0], 'blogname [max-results]' print ' Gets blog updates from blogger....

December 14, 2008 · John