Built in recipe for Ottawa Citizen stopped working

[sylviebi]

Built in recipe for Ottawa Citizen stopped working a few weeks ago. Is there anyway to fix it?

Ottawa Citizen (found under English Canada created by Nick Redding, News from Ottawa, ON

here is the error report...

calibre, version 0.8.64 (win32, isfrozen: True)
Conversion Error: Failed: Fetch news from Ottawa Citizen

Fetch news from Ottawa Citizen
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 0.8.64
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InputFormatPlugin: Recipe Input running
Python function terminated unexpectedly
No articles found, aborting (Error Code: 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site.py", line 132, in main
File "site.py", line 109, in run_entry_point
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 192, in main
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 25, in gui_convert
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 979, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\conversion.py", line 239, in __call__
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plugins\recipe_ input.py", line 105, in convert
File "site-packages\calibre\web\feeds\news.py", line 881, in download
File "site-packages\calibre\web\feeds\news.py", line 1034, in build_index
ValueError: No articles found, aborting

any help to get this up and running again would be great! thanks.

[nickredding]

The problem is the "Today's Paper" index has disappeared form the Citizen website. The URL takes you to the ePaper page which doesn't have any content.

This is odd because all of the PostMedia papers use the same website format and the other papers still have the "Today's Paper" index page. So either this is error in the Citizen website which will be fixed at some point, or PostMedia is rolling out a change that will eventually affect all of the newspaper websites. In the latter case the recipe will have to be rewriten. I think I'll wait to see if the Citizen "Today's Paper" index page comes back before I rewrite the recipe.

[sylviebi]

Nick, Thanks for the quick response. Appreciate the time you put into this.
have a great day,
Sylvie

[nickredding]

See the new thread for the updated recipe.