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brennydoogles · 12-27-2010, 10:16 PM

Hello all, I am looking to write a Calibre Plugin to allow users to input a URL from allrecipes.com, and automatically convert the recipe from the url to .mobi format. I have already written the hard part, which takes the URL as a cli arg and outputs only the relevant bits as a valid HTML doc. All I need to do now is integrate my current code into the plugin. Unfortunately, I have only used Python for CLI programs in the past, so I have no idea how to create the GUI. Anyone have any pointers to help me get started?

As a recap: I want to build a very basic GUI Plugin and need some guidance, the backend is pretty much ready.

12-27-2010, 10:16 PM	#1
brennydoogles Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: Kindle 3	Looking to make a plugin, need some guidance getting started Hello all, I am looking to write a Calibre Plugin to allow users to input a URL from allrecipes.com, and automatically convert the recipe from the url to .mobi format. I have already written the hard part, which takes the URL as a cli arg and outputs only the relevant bits as a valid HTML doc. All I need to do now is integrate my current code into the plugin. Unfortunately, I have only used Python for CLI programs in the past, so I have no idea how to create the GUI. Anyone have any pointers to help me get started? As a recap: I want to build a very basic GUI Plugin and need some guidance, the backend is pretty much ready.