REQUEST: technology review recipe doesn't work

[nikolaywld]

gives me this error:
calibre, version 7.2.0 (win32, embedded-python: True)
Conversion error: Failed: Fetch news from MIT Technology Review Magazine

Fetch news from MIT Technology Review Magazine
Conversion options changed from defaults:
verbose: 2
output_profile: 'kindle_oasis'
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 7.2.0
{'asciiize': False,
'author_sort': None,
'authors': None,
'base_font_size': 0,
'book_producer': None,
'change_justification': 'original',
'chapter': None,
'chapter_mark': 'pagebreak',
'comments': None,
'cover': None,
'debug_pipeline': None,
'dehyphenate': True,
'delete_blank_paragraphs': True,
'disable_font_rescaling': False,
'dont_compress': False,
'dont_download_recipe': False,
'duplicate_links_in_toc': False,
'embed_all_fonts': False,
'embed_font_family': None,
'enable_heuristics': False,
'expand_css': False,
'extra_css': None,
'extract_to': None,
'filter_css': None,
'fix_indents': True,
'font_size_mapping': None,
'format_scene_breaks': True,
'html_unwrap_factor': 0.4,
'input_encoding': None,
'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x000001B8E011B690>,
'insert_blank_line': False,
'insert_blank_line_size': 0.5,
'insert_metadata': False,
'isbn': None,
'italicize_common_cases': True,
'keep_ligatures': False,
'language': None,
'level1_toc': None,
'level2_toc': None,
'level3_toc': None,
'line_height': 0,
'linearize_tables': False,
'lrf': False,
'margin_bottom': 5.0,
'margin_left': 5.0,
'margin_right': 5.0,
'margin_top': 5.0,
'markup_chapter_headings': True,
'max_toc_links': 50,
'minimum_line_height': 120.0,
'mobi_file_type': 'old',
'mobi_ignore_margins': False,
'mobi_keep_original_images': False,
'mobi_toc_at_start': False,
'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
'no_inline_navbars': True,
'no_inline_toc': False,
'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.KindleOasisOutput object at 0x000001B8E0151D50>,
'page_breaks_before': None,
'personal_doc': '[PDOC]',
'prefer_author_sort': False,
'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
'pretty_print': False,
'pubdate': None,
'publisher': None,
'rating': None,
'read_metadata_from_opf': None,
'remove_fake_margins': True,
'remove_first_image': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5,
'renumber_headings': True,
'replace_scene_breaks': '',
'search_replace': None,
'series': None,
'series_index': None,
'share_not_sync': False,
'smarten_punctuation': False,
'sr1_replace': '',
'sr1_search': '',
'sr2_replace': '',
'sr2_search': '',
'sr3_replace': '',
'sr3_search': '',
'start_reading_at': None,
'subset_embedded_fonts': False,
'tags': None,
'test': False,
'timestamp': None,
'title': None,
'title_sort': None,
'toc_filter': None,
'toc_threshold': 6,
'toc_title': None,
'transform_css_rules': None,
'transform_html_rules': None,
'unsmarten_punctuation': False,
'unwrap_lines': True,
'use_auto_toc': False,
'verbose': 2}
InputFormatPlugin: Recipe Input running
Downloading recipe urn: custom:1001
Using user agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.88 Safari/537.36
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 1236, in do_open
File "http\client.py", line 1286, in request
File "http\client.py", line 1332, in _send_request
File "http\client.py", line 1281, in endheaders
File "http\client.py", line 1041, in _send_output
File "http\client.py", line 979, in send
File "http\client.py", line 1458, in connect
File "ssl.py", line 517, in wrap_socket
File "ssl.py", line 1108, in _create
File "ssl.py", line 1379, in do_handshake
ssl.SSLCertVerificationError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: certificate has expired (_ssl.c:1006)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "runpy.py", line 198, in _run_module_as_main
File "runpy.py", line 88, in _run_code
File "site.py", line 95, in <module>
File "site.py", line 90, in main
File "site.py", line 50, in run_entry_point
File "calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 215, in main
File "calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 31, in gui_convert_recipe
File "calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 25, in gui_convert
File "calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 1108, in run
File "calibre\customize\conversion.py", line 242, in __call__
File "calibre\ebooks\conversion\plugins\recipe_input.py ", line 139, in convert
File "calibre\web\feeds\news.py", line 1073, in download
File "calibre\web\feeds\news.py", line 1252, in build_index
File "<string>", line 64, in parse_index
File "calibre\web\feeds\news.py", line 718, in index_to_soup
File "mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 241, in open_novisit
File "mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 287, in _mech_open
File "mechanize\_opener.py", line 204, in open
File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 535, in http_response
File "mechanize\_opener.py", line 222, in error
File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 414, in _call_chain
File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 655, in http_error_302
File "mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 257, in open
File "mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 287, in _mech_open
File "mechanize\_opener.py", line 193, in open
File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 425, in _open
File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 414, in _call_chain
File "calibre\utils\browser.py", line 28, in https_open
File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 1240, in do_open
urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: certificate has expired (_ssl.c:1006)>

[unkn0wn]

its working here.. try again.

you can add this to the recipe if it happens again.

def get_browser(self):
        return BasicNewsRecipe.get_browser(self, verify_ssl_certificates=False)

[kovidgoyal]

visit the website in microsoft edge that will install the needed certificates in the system certificate store.