My recipe wish is a little bit unusual in that I don't requite: The German newspaper taz already provides an epub edition (without DRM) for subscribers. When you go to
http://www.taz.de/epub and enter valid credentials in the htaccess-form, the most current epub is automatically downloaded. To read it on my Cybook Gen3 with 1.5 firmware, I then use calibre to convert it, tag it as "News" and upload it to the reader.
Is it possible to use calibre's recipes to automate this process? I have (non-python) programming experience and already had a look at the API documentation and some of the sample recipes, but they're all geared very heavily towards processing HTML in one way or another. Furthermore, I couldn't even figure out how to enter the htaccess credentials.
I'm not sure if I should share my taz.de-login with anyone (would definitely be a TOS violation...), but if somebody could show me how to handle htaccess and how to deal with an epub news source, I should be able to connect the dots and create a custom recipe.
Thanks for any infos.