Questions About def get_browser(self)

[Finbar127]

Hi Everyone,

I'm trying to add login information for this website:

http://www.rockawave.com/user/login

I'm a little confused about using the following:

def get_browser(self):
        br = BasicNewsRecipe.get_browser()
        if self.username is not None and self.password is not None:
            br.open('http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login')
            br.select_form(name='login')
            br['USERID']   = self.username
            br['PASSWORD'] = self.password
            br.submit()
        return br

1) Do I replace 'USERID' with my userid or with the name of the userid control on the form?

2) If it is the name of the control where do I put my userid in the script? Do I have to define self.username as my username?

3) Same question for 'PASSWORD'

Thanks

[kovidgoyal]

1) The form control

2) self.username will be set automatically by the news download system based on what the user of the recipe has entered

If you are downloading using ebook-convert from the command line then you have to sue --username and -ppassword

Dont forget to set

needs_subscription = True

in your recipe

[Finbar127]

Thank you for the quick reply.

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

2) self.username will be set automatically by the news download system based on what the user of the recipe has entered

This is the part I don't understand. How do I enter the username into the script? I looked at a few of the examples and I don't see any place in the the scripts for entering a username and password.

Thanks

[kovidgoyal]

You dont enter it into the script, the user enters it into calibre and it is passed to the script. If you are making this script just for yourself, then dont use self.username, use the username directly

[Finbar127]

I completely overlooked the password and username fields in the schedule tab. Thank you for your patience.

[Starson17]

FYI, if your login page has code that identifies the userid and possword form with a form name, like this:

<form name='whatever'

then use this:

br.select_form(name='whatever')

However, I seldom seem to find login forms with the "name=" label. In that case, use the form's numerical index, like this:

br.select_form(nr=3)

You can count the forms (numerical index starts at 0) or just increase until you find the right one.

[Finbar127]

Thanks Starson17. I was able to figure that out after some extensive Google searching. I was going nuts trying to find the form name. I thought I was missing something. However

br.select_form(nr=2)

did the trick.