Where in the Instapaper recipe do I modify the username and password

joer2786 · 05-27-2025, 06:37 PM

I have tried every combination and have no idea where in this code I modify the username and password so that it works - went through all the documentation and it also wasn't helpful

Spoiler:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# vim:fileencoding=utf-8
# Calibre recipe for Instapaper.com (Stable version)
#
# Homepage: http://khromov.wordpress.com/project...alibre-recipe/
# Source: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...tapaper.recipe
# Last updated 10 July 2024


from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe

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class InstapaperRecipe(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title = 'Instapaper'
    __author__ = 'Darko Miletic, Stanislav Khromov, Jim Ramsay, Stephan Hügel'
    publisher = 'Instapaper.com'
    publication_type = 'magazine'
    description = 'A digest of your unread Instapaper articles'
    compress_news_images_max_size = 250
    category = 'info, custom, Instapaper'
    oldest_article = 365
    max_articles_per_feed = 100
    resolve_internal_links = True
    no_stylesheets = False
    timefmt = ' [%a, %d %b, %Y]'
    extra_css = gutenweb
    masthead_url = 'https://d2kfnvwohu0503.cloudfront.net/img/logo@2x.png'
    encoding = 'utf-8'
    language = 'en'
    remove_javascript = True

    recipe_specific_options = {
        'days': {
            'short': 'Oldest article to download from this news source. In days ',
            'long': 'For example, 0.5, gives you articles from the past 12 hours',
            'default': str(oldest_article)
        }
    }

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        BasicNewsRecipe.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
        d = self.recipe_specific_options.get('days')
        if d and isinstance(d, str):
            self.oldest_article = float(d)

    remove_tags = [
        dict(name='div', attrs={'id': 'reflow'}),
        dict(name='div', attrs={'id': 'modal_backer'}),
        dict(name='div', attrs={'id': 'speedTimeRemaining'}),
        dict(name='div', attrs={'id': 'highlight_create_popover'}),
        dict(name='div', attrs={'id': 'highlight_delete_popover'}),
        dict(name='div', attrs={'id': 'summary_highlight_popover'}),
        dict(name='script'),
        dict(name='section', attrs={'class': 'primary_bar'}),
        dict(name='div', attrs={'class': 'modal_group'}),
        dict(name='div', attrs={'class': 'page_header_read'}),
        dict(name='div', attrs={'class': 'side_drawer_container'}),
        dict(name='div', attrs={'class': 'modal_name'}),
        dict(name='div', attrs={'class': 'highlight_popover'}),
        dict(name='div', attrs={'class': 'bar bottom'}),
        dict(name='div', attrs={'class': 'evernote_confirm'}),
        dict(name='div', attrs={'id': 'controlbar_container'}),
        dict(name='div', attrs={'id': 'footer'}),
        dict(name='div', attrs={'id': 'speedRead'}),
        dict(name='label'),
    ]
    use_embedded_content = False
    needs_subscription = True
    INDEX = 'https://www.instapaper.com'
    LOGIN = INDEX + '/user/login'

    feeds = [('Instapaper Unread', 'https://www.instapaper.com/u')]
    remove_empty_feeds = True

    def get_browser(self):
        br = BasicNewsRecipe.get_browser(self)
        if self.username is not None:
            br.open(self.LOGIN)
            br.select_form(nr=0)
            br['username'] = self.username
            if self.password is not None:
                br['password'] = self.password
            br.submit()
        return br

    def parse_index(self):
        totalfeeds = []
        lfeeds = self.get_feeds()
        for feedobj in lfeeds:
            feedtitle, feedurl = feedobj
            self.report_progress(0, 'Fetching feed' + ' %s...' % (feedtitle if feedtitle else feedurl))
            articles = []
            soup = self.index_to_soup(feedurl)
            for item in soup.findAll('a', attrs={'class': 'article_title'}):
                articles.append(
                    {
                        'url': 'https://www.instapaper.com' + item['href'],
                        'title': item['title'],
                    }
                )
            totalfeeds.append((feedtitle, articles))
        return totalfeeds


calibre_most_common_ua = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'

unkn0wn · 05-27-2025, 10:54 PM

do not modify the recipe.

joer2786 · 05-28-2025, 08:20 AM

I meant within the code - I need to modify the code but I cannot even figure out how to put my credentials into the code - no matter how I modify the code to put in my credentials it never works.

The built in recipe works - just now when I try to go and modify it for creating custom recipe based on that Instapaper code.

unkn0wn · 05-28-2025, 11:24 AM

remove needs_subscription and just use string username and password instead of self.username etc..

if it doesnt work maybe the login code is wrong.

joer2786 · 05-28-2025, 02:20 PM

Thanks for the help - any specifics on how to modify the code?

PeterT · 05-28-2025, 03:57 PM

Code:

use_embedded_content = False
    INDEX = 'https://www.instapaper.com'
    LOGIN = INDEX + '/user/login'

Code:

def get_browser(self):
        br = BasicNewsRecipe.get_browser(self)
        br.open(self.LOGIN)
        br.select_form(nr=0)
        br['username'] = 'your-username'
        br['password'] = 'your-password'
        br.submit()
        return br

joer2786 · 05-28-2025, 06:59 PM

Thank you so much - incredibly helpful and it looks to have worked. VERY much appreciate this.

05-27-2025, 10:54 PM	#2
unkn0wn Guru Posts: 615 Karma: 85520 Join Date: May 2021 Device: kindle	do not modify the recipe. Attached Thumbnails

05-28-2025, 08:20 AM	#3
joer2786 Member Posts: 13 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2024 Device: kindle	I meant within the code I meant within the code - I need to modify the code but I cannot even figure out how to put my credentials into the code - no matter how I modify the code to put in my credentials it never works. The built in recipe works - just now when I try to go and modify it for creating custom recipe based on that Instapaper code.

05-28-2025, 02:20 PM	#5
joer2786 Member Posts: 13 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2024 Device: kindle	Thanks Thanks for the help - any specifics on how to modify the code?

05-28-2025, 06:59 PM	#7
joer2786 Member Posts: 13 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2024 Device: kindle	Thanks Thank you so much - incredibly helpful and it looks to have worked. VERY much appreciate this.

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05-28-2025, 11:24 AM	#4
unkn0wn Guru Posts: 615 Karma: 85520 Join Date: May 2021 Device: kindle	remove needs_subscription and just use string username and password instead of self.username etc.. if it doesnt work maybe the login code is wrong.