FAILED: Fetch news from New York Times

[gianfri]

This morning I found an error message that the NYT could not be downloaded. See log below. I can reach their Web site without problem. Anyone else?

Thanks!

Gianfranco

calibre, version 0.9.17 (darwin, isfrozen: True)
Conversion Error: Failed: Fetch news from New York Times [Sat, 02 Feb 2013]

Fetch news from New York Times [Sat, 02 Feb 2013]
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 0.9.17
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Python function terminated unexpectedly: unbound method get_browser() must be called with BasicNewsRecipe instance as first argument (got nothing instead)
InputFormatPlugin: Recipe Input running
Using custom recipe
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/Python/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 147, in main
return run_entry_point()
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/Python/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 116, in run_entry_point
return getattr(pmod, func)()
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 1009, 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 830, in __init__
File "<string>", line 361, in get_browser
TypeError: unbound method get_browser() must be called with BasicNewsRecipe instance as first argument (got nothing instead)

[kovidgoyal]

You are using a custom recipe, use the builtin recipe or fix your custom recipe.

[gianfri]

Actually that is a recipe that someone on the forum had provided to add the date that the donwload is performed. But you are right, it is a custom recipe. It worked until yesterday, so something must have changed on the NYT site.

Thank you for your help.

[PeterT]

Why not just re-customize the recipe?

You probably had skipped the 0.9.16 version of calibre that had made changes to one of the functions used by recipes so when you did the update to 0.9.17 it broke, as opposed to breaking the previous week.

Originally Posted by nickredding

You can customize the recipe to use your title format by setting

title = 'New York Times'+strftime(' [%a, %d %b %Y]')

Put it in right before decode_url_date but AFTER the other tests that are setting title according to other parameters.

I think a lot of people like the standard recipe to not include the date in the title because that way different issues of the same publication get stacked on their e-readers instead of appearing as distinct documents.