Science AAAS recipe no longer seems to be working

[dmkaplan]

Hi,

I have recently starting having errors when fetching the latest issues of Science magazine. The error traceback is copied below. It was working as of a few weeks ago, but I am not sure exactly when it started to fail.

Also, a minor point on the converter: it requires a password, but I, like many other researchers, have an institutional access via my IP. In the past, I have just entered any old username and password, and it has worked. This could be the source of the problem, but I doubt it. It would be great if an "institutional access" button could be added that would short circuit the need for entering a password.

Thanks,
David

calibre, version 0.9.4 (linux2, isfrozen: True)
Conversion Error: Failed: Fetch news from Science AAAS

Fetch news from Science AAAS
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 0.9.4
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'authors': None,
'base_font_size': 0,
'book_producer': None,
'change_justification': 'original',
'chapter': None,
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'comments': None,
'cover': None,
'debug_pipeline': None,
'dehyphenate': True,
'delete_blank_paragraphs': True,
'disable_font_rescaling': False,
'dont_download_recipe': False,
'dont_split_on_page_breaks': True,
'duplicate_links_in_toc': False,
'embed_font_family': None,
'enable_heuristics': False,
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'extract_to': None,
'filter_css': None,
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'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
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'no_inline_navbars': False,
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'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.NookColorOutput object at 0x30a8790>,
'page_breaks_before': None,
'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
'preserve_cover_aspect_ratio': False,
'pretty_print': True,
'pubdate': None,
'publisher': None,
'rating': None,
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'remove_fake_margins': True,
'remove_first_image': False,
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'renumber_headings': True,
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'series': None,
'series_index': None,
'smarten_punctuation': False,
'sr1_replace': '',
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InputFormatPlugin: Recipe Input running
Using custom recipe
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site.py", line 58, in main
File "site-packages/calibre/utils/ipc/worker.py", line 186, 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 1000, in run
File "site-packages/calibre/customize/conversion.py", line 239, in __call__
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plugins/recipe_input.py", line 108, in convert
File "site-packages/calibre/web/feeds/news.py", line 787, in __init__
File "<string>", line 30, in get_browser
File "site-packages/mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 524, in select_form
FormNotFoundError: no form matching nr 1

[Krittika Goyal]

pm me a username and password and I will try to fix this

[dmkaplan]

Originally Posted by Krittika Goyal

pm me a username and password and I will try to fix this

Hi,

The problem is that I don't have one since I have an institutional access. I can't think of anyone off hand that I know of that has individual access. Is there another solution perhaps?

Thanks,
David

[Krittika Goyal]

ah i see. how did you get this to work before?

[dmkaplan]

I just put in any random username and password. It would seem that the recipe only uses the password if AAAS asks for one. In my case, as I have a recognized IP address, it never asks. At least that is how it worked before. I have the impression that the username and password are not the problem, that something else is making it fail now, but I can't be certain.

[Krittika Goyal]

you are probably right but I dont have an account with them. so I cant test it to fix it.