Calibre Recipes for 每日日課 & 每日聖言

I have written two Calibre recipes for downloading daily Mass readings and breviary from the HK Catholic Diocesan Liturgy Commission webpage.  They can be useful for reading offline on a e-reader like Kindle.  To use them, copy each recipe to a text file, and then "load recipe from file" in Calibre.

They download content for 60 days starting from today.  So one may ask Calibre to download these sources every 30 or 60 days.

Writing recipes are relatively easy tasks.  The difficult task is to read them daily!

每日聖言

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from datetime import date, timedelta


class MeiRiShengYan(AutomaticNewsRecipe):
    title          = u'\u6bcf\u65e5\u8056\u8a00'
    oldest_article = 35
    max_articles_per_feed = 100
    auto_cleanup = True


    no_stylesheets = True
    encoding = 'big5-hkscs'


    cover_url = 'http://liturgy.catholic.org.hk/dlcgif.gif'


    def parse_index(self):
        today = date.today()
        current = today
        feeds = []
        articles = []
        while (current - today < timedelta(60)):
            url = 'http://catholic-dlc.org.hk/mk' + current.strftime('%y%m%d') + '.htm'
            title = current.isoformat()
            articles.append({'title':title, 'url':url,
                             'description':None, 'date':current})
            current += timedelta(1)


        feeds.append((u'\u6bcf\u65e5\u8056\u8a00', articles))
        return feeds


    def populate_article_metadata(self, article, soup, first):
        title = soup.find('p', attrs={'class':['MsoNormal','MsoPlainText'], 'align':'center'})
        if title:
            article.summary = self.tag_to_string(title)
            article.text_summary = article.summary
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每日日課

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from datetime import date, timedelta


class MeiRiRiKe(AutomaticNewsRecipe):
    title          = '每日日課'
    oldest_article = 35
    max_articles_per_feed = 300
    auto_cleanup = True


    feeds          = []


    no_stylesheets = True
    encoding = 'big5-hkscs'


    cover_url = 'http://liturgy.catholic.org.hk/dlcgif.gif'
    map = {'LH1': '晨', 'LH2': '日', 'LH3': '晚', 'LH4': '誦', 'LH5': '夜'}
    pages = list(map.keys())
    pages.sort()
        
    def parse_index(self):


        today = date.today()
        current = today
        feeds = []
        articles = []
        while (current - today < timedelta(60)):
        for page in self.pages:
        url = "http://catholic-dlc.org.hk/%s_%s.htm" % (page,  current.strftime('%Y%m%d')) 
        title = current.isoformat() + self.map[page]
        articles.append({'title':title, 'url':url, 'description':None, 'date':current})
        current += timedelta(1)
        feeds.append(('每日日課', articles))
        return feeds


    def populate_article_metadata(self, article, soup, first):
        title = soup.find('p', attrs={'class':['MsoNormal','MsoPlainText'], 'align':'center'})
        if title:
            article.summary = self.tag_to_string(title)
            article.text_summary = article.summary

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