[davide125]

Hi,

I've realized today that The Economist past issues can now be accessed even without a subscription. Here's a recipe to fetch an arbitrary old issue. It uses the subclassing trick from
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=149319

Is there a way to override the publication date? It'd be nice to have it set to the issue date.

#!/usr/bin/env python

__license__   = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2011, Davide Cavalca <davide at cavalca dot name>'
'''
economist.com
'''

def LoadBuiltinRecipe(recipeName, moduleName):
    """ Load a built-in recipe into a python module
        recipeName is the filename of the recipe within builtin_recipes.zip
        moduleName is a unique name for the module
    """
    from zipfile import ZipFile

    with ZipFile(P('builtin_recipes.zip',allow_user_override=False)) as recipes:
        from imp import new_module
        import sys

        zf = recipes.open(recipeName)
        mod = new_module(moduleName)
        mod.__file__ = moduleName
        exec zf.read() in mod.__dict__
        sys.modules[moduleName] = mod
        cls = getattr(mod, moduleName)

        return cls

class EconomistPast(LoadBuiltinRecipe('economist.recipe', 'Economist')):
    needs_subscription = True

    description = ('Global news and current affairs from a European'
            ' perspective. Set the issue date (YYYY-MM-DD) as'
            ' username, the password field is ignored')
    __author__ = "Davide Cavalca"

    def parse_index(self):
        self.INDEX = "%s/%s" %(self.INDEX, self.username)
        return self.economist_parse_index()

    def get_cover_url(self):
        from datetime import date

        ymd = self.username.split('-')
        issue = date(int(ymd[0]), int(ymd[1]), int(ymd[2]))
        if issue >= date(2011,8,6):
          cover_url = "http://media.economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/print-cover-full/print-covers/%s_CNA400.jpg" %(''.join(ymd))
        elif issue >= date(2010,9,11):
          cover_url = "http://media.economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/print-cover-full/%s_CNA400.jpg" %(''.join(ymd))
        elif issue >= date(2002,10,12):
          cover_url = "http://media.economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/print-cover-full/%sissuecovEU400_0.jpg" %(''.join(ymd))
        else:
          cover_url = "http://media.economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/print-cover-full/%sissuecov.jpg" %(''.join(ymd))

        return cover_url

Davide