cover update2

recipes/mediapart.recipe

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 # been added through custom entries in the function my_parse_index.
 #   3) Fix the cover image so it doesnt disappear from the Kindle menu
 # ( cover image format is changed to .jpeg)
-#
+# 14 Jan 2021 - Add Mediapart Logo url as masthead_url
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 __license__ = 'GPL v3'
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ Mediapart
 
 import re
 from datetime import date, datetime, timedelta
+from time import strftime
 
 from calibre.web.feeds import feeds_from_index
 from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
@@ -50,6 +51,7 @@ class Mediapart(BasicNewsRecipe):
     remove_tags = [classes('login-subscribe print-source_url')]
     conversion_options = {'smarten_punctuation': True}
 
+    masthead_url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lhoupert/calibre_contrib/main/mediapart_masthead.png"
     cover_url = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lhoupert/calibre_contrib/main/mediapart.jpeg'
 
     # --
@@ -240,3 +242,22 @@ class Mediapart(BasicNewsRecipe):
             br['password'] = self.password
             br.submit()
         return br
+
+    def default_cover(self, cover_file):
+        """
+        Create a generic cover for recipes that don't have a cover
+        This override adds time to the cover
+        """
+        try:
+            from calibre.ebooks import calibre_cover
+            title = self.title if isinstance(self.title, unicode) else \
+                self.title.decode('utf-8', 'replace')
+            date = strftime(self.timefmt)
+            time = strftime('%a %d %b %Y %-H:%M')
+            img_data = calibre_cover(title, date, time)
+            cover_file.write(img_data)
+            cover_file.flush()
+            print(f'title: {title}\ndate: {date}\ntime: {time}')
+        except:
+            self.log.exception('Failed to generate default cover')
+            return False