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Old 12-27-2010, 10:16 PM   #1
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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.
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Old 12-27-2010, 10:59 PM   #2
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I've written a bunch of GUI plugins which you can download the source code of in this thread

If you read the first post in the thread it also has some links to some useful help topics etc. I'm happy to give some help if you need it, either send me a PM or post on here for others to also assist. I hadn't written any Python at all before starting to dabble with Calibre and got enough to get by pretty quickly.
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Old 12-28-2010, 01:32 PM   #3
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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.
Your other option is to use the Calibre recipe (code) system to grab recipes (food) from allrecipes.com. Although the recipe (code) system of Calibre is not designed for simple user input when a recipe (code) runs, you can load the URL (or a portion thereof) via the username password field, via modifying the recipe to add a list of links, or through a Python coded interface.
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Old 12-28-2010, 01:39 PM   #4
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I'm happy to give some help if you need it, either send me a PM or post on here for others to also assist.
I would actually love working through it in a thread here if possible. I learn things far more quickly when I have guidance with my first project than if I don't. So here's what I've done so far:

I have written the following methods to input a URL (from allrecipes.com), and return a concise HTML document containing the recipe:
*Note: This script depends on BeautifulSoup.
Code:
import urllib2, sys, string
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

def buildHTMLOutput(title, author, ingredientList, directionList):
	output = ""
	titleAuthor = "%s by %s" % (string.capwords(title), string.capwords(author))
	header = "<html><head><title>%s</title></head><body><h2>%s</h2>" % (titleAuthor, titleAuthor)
	ingredients = "<h2>Ingredients:</h2>"
	for ingredient in ingredientList:
		if ingredient != "":
			ingredients += "<li>%s</li>" % (ingredient)
	directions = "<h2>Directions:</h2>"
	for direction in directionList:
		if direction != "":
			directions += "<li>%s</li>" % (direction)
	ingredientSection = "<ul>%s</ul>" % (ingredients)	
	directionSection = "<ol>%s</ol>" % (directions)
	footer = "</body></html>"
	output = "%s\n%s\n%s\n%s" % (header, ingredientSection, directionSection, footer)
	return output

def parseRecipeFromLink(url):
	try:
		ingredientList = []
		directionList = []
		req = urllib2.Request(url)
		response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
		pageText = response.read()
		htmlParser = BeautifulSoup(''.join(pageText))

		ingredientDiv = BeautifulSoup(htmlParser.find('div', "ingredients").prettify())
		ingredients = ingredientDiv.findAll('li')
		for ingredient in ingredients:
			for i in ingredient.findAll(text=True):
				ingredientList.append(i.replace('\n', '').strip())

		directionDiv = BeautifulSoup(htmlParser.find('div', "directions").prettify())	
		directions = directionDiv.findAll('li')
		for step in directions:
			for i in step.findAll(text=True):
				directionList.append(i.replace('\n', '').strip())

		authorDiv = BeautifulSoup(htmlParser.find('div', "author-name").prettify())
		spans = authorDiv.findAll('span')
		for span in spans:
			author =  span.findAll(text=True)[0].replace('\n', '').strip()

		titleArea = BeautifulSoup(htmlParser.find('h1', {"id" : "itemTitle"}).prettify())
		title = titleArea.findAll(text=True)[1].replace('\n', '').strip()
		output = buildHTMLOutput(title, author, ingredientList, directionList)
		soup = BeautifulSoup(output)
		return soup.prettify()
	except Exception, detail: 
		print "Error: ", detail

if __name__ == "__main__":
	if (len(sys.argv) == 1):
		print "No URL was specified"
		quit = 1	
	else:
		if "http://allrecipes.com/" in sys.argv[1]:
			url = sys.argv[1]
		else:
			print "The URL must be from allrecipes.com"
			quit = 1
	if quit != 1:
		print parseRecipeFromLink(url)
So basically, I just need to write the plugin to:
  1. Accept a URL as input from the user
  2. Pass the URL to my script and retrieve the HTML output (possibly into a temp file?)
  3. Convert the HTML into mobi output
  4. Add the recipe to the Library

So first thing's first: Have I missed any crucial steps or is there anything I need to consider before I proceed?
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Old 12-28-2010, 03:17 PM   #5
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So first thing's first: Have I missed any crucial steps or is there anything I need to consider before I proceed?
I would think the first thing would be to consider Starson17's suggestion of whether a "recipe" approach is more suitable than a UI plugin. I know absolutely nothing about recipes having never used them which is why I did not mention the option myself. However if there is indeed a way to incorporate a way of the URL being supplied by the user into that which Starson17 indicates some options for then that sounds like a much better approach given it does most of what you need?
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Old 12-29-2010, 08:58 PM   #6
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Your other option is to use the Calibre recipe (code) system to grab recipes (food) from allrecipes.com. Although the recipe (code) system of Calibre is not designed for simple user input when a recipe (code) runs, you can load the URL (or a portion thereof) via the username password field, via modifying the recipe to add a list of links, or through a Python coded interface.
I'm not sure about the recipe idea... I thought that recipes were designed for aggregating news items like RSS feeds. Is that assumption incorrect?


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I would think the first thing would be to consider Starson17's suggestion of whether a "recipe" approach is more suitable than a UI plugin. I know absolutely nothing about recipes having never used them which is why I did not mention the option myself. However if there is indeed a way to incorporate a way of the URL being supplied by the user into that which Starson17 indicates some options for then that sounds like a much better approach given it does most of what you need?
It seems like the only input I really need is a URL. Even if the plugin simply pops up a dialog box asking for it and then processes from there, I should be able to do the rest automatically. Is there a simple way to get user input?
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Old 12-30-2010, 07:54 AM   #7
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I'm not sure about the recipe idea... I thought that recipes were designed for aggregating news items like RSS feeds. Is that assumption incorrect?
It can parse an RSS feed or a web page to get links. See the parse_index method.


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It seems like the only input I really need is a URL. Even if the plugin simply pops up a dialog box asking for it and then processes from there, I should be able to do the rest automatically. Is there a simple way to get user input?
As I posted, the simplest is to edit the recipe directly to add the URL. Second easiest is to pretent the URL is a username or password, tell the recipe it needs authentication, then pass in the input through one of the user/pass boxes that appears. Finally, you can write an interface. You can do anything you can do in Python. There's a thread on user input.
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Old 12-30-2010, 10:58 AM   #8
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You can do anything you can do in Python. There's a thread on user input.
As someone who has little experience with Python, I have never done any type of GUI in normal Python (I have used IronPython, C#, or Java for GUI stuff). I am not exactly sure how to get the input from the user, but a link to the thread you were talking about would be very helpful (I was unable to find it on the forum) Thanks for all of the help!
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Old 12-30-2010, 12:31 PM   #9
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As someone who has little experience with Python, I have never done any type of GUI in normal Python (I have used IronPython, C#, or Java for GUI stuff). I am not exactly sure how to get the input from the user, but a link to the thread you were talking about would be very helpful (I was unable to find it on the forum) Thanks for all of the help!
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...ghlight=dialog
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