From 46d87fe7c6d3a6eb7450acf406401086730af603 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 15:57:19 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Fix #1869675 [Spectator Magazine download not
 working](https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1869675)

---
 recipes/spectator_magazine.recipe | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/recipes/spectator_magazine.recipe b/recipes/spectator_magazine.recipe
index fca46b08f8..014b92151e 100644
--- a/recipes/spectator_magazine.recipe
+++ b/recipes/spectator_magazine.recipe
@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ from mechanize import Request
 
 from calibre.web.feeds.recipes import BasicNewsRecipe
 
+try:
+    from urllib.parse import quote
+except ImportError:
+    from urllib import quote
+
 
 def absolutize(url):
     return 'https://spectator.co.uk' + url
@@ -50,7 +55,7 @@ class Spectator(BasicNewsRecipe):
                 ans += '&limit={}'.format(limit)
             for inc in includes:
                 ans += '&include[]=' + inc
-            ans += '&query=' + json.dumps(query)
+            ans += '&query=' + quote(json.dumps(query))
             return ans
 
         def get_result(url):