[leo738]

Yes, indeed I've tried your suggested fix (full recipe below) but unfortunately it's still unusable. I see from an article on the Irish Times website they are still tweaking it.

However I wonder will a fix be possible?

Leo

__license__  = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = "2008, Derry FitzGerald. 2009 Modified by Ray Kinsella and David O'Callaghan, 2011 Modified by Phil Burns"
'''
irishtimes.com
'''
import re

from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe

class IrishTimes(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title          = u'The Irish Times'
    encoding  = 'ISO-8859-15'
    __author__    = "Derry FitzGerald, Ray Kinsella, David O'Callaghan and Phil Burns"
    language = 'en_IE'
    timefmt = ' (%A, %B %d, %Y)'


    oldest_article = 1.0
    max_articles_per_feed  = 100
    no_stylesheets = True
    simultaneous_downloads= 5

    r = re.compile('.*(?P<url>http:\/\/(www.irishtimes.com)|(rss.feedsportal.com\/c)\/.*\.html?).*')
    remove_tags    = [dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'footer'})]
    extra_css      = 'p, div { margin: 0pt; border: 0pt; text-indent: 0.5em } .headline {font-size: large;} \n .fact { padding-top: 10pt  }'

    feeds          = [
                      ('Frontpage', 'http://www.irishtimes.com/feeds/rss/newspaper/index.rss'),
                      ('Ireland', 'http://www.irishtimes.com/feeds/rss/newspaper/ireland.rss'),
                      ('World', 'http://www.irishtimes.com/feeds/rss/newspaper/world.rss'),
                      ('Finance', 'http://www.irishtimes.com/feeds/rss/newspaper/finance.rss'),
                      ('Features', 'http://www.irishtimes.com/feeds/rss/newspaper/features.rss'),
                      ('Sport', 'http://www.irishtimes.com/feeds/rss/newspaper/sport.rss'),
                      ('Opinion', 'http://www.irishtimes.com/feeds/rss/newspaper/opinion.rss'),
                      ('Letters', 'http://www.irishtimes.com/feeds/rss/newspaper/letters.rss'),
                      ('Magazine', 'http://www.irishtimes.com/feeds/rss/newspaper/magazine.rss'),
                      ('Health', 'http://www.irishtimes.com/feeds/rss/newspaper/health.rss'),
                      ('Education & Parenting', 'http://www.irishtimes.com/feeds/rss/newspaper/education.rss'),
                      ('Motors', 'http://www.irishtimes.com/feeds/rss/newspaper/motors.rss'),
                      ('An Teanga Bheo', 'http://www.irishtimes.com/feeds/rss/newspaper/anteangabheo.rss'),
                      ('Commercial Property', 'http://www.irishtimes.com/feeds/rss/newspaper/commercialproperty.rss'),
                      ('Science Today', 'http://www.irishtimes.com/feeds/rss/newspaper/sciencetoday.rss'),
                      ('Property', 'http://www.irishtimes.com/feeds/rss/newspaper/property.rss'),
                      ('The Tickets', 'http://www.irishtimes.com/feeds/rss/newspaper/theticket.rss'),
                      ('Weekend', 'http://www.irishtimes.com/feeds/rss/newspaper/weekend.rss'),
                      ('News features', 'http://www.irishtimes.com/feeds/rss/newspaper/newsfeatures.rss'),
                      ('Obituaries', 'http://www.irishtimes.com/feeds/rss/newspaper/obituaries.rss'),
                    ]


    def print_version(self, url):
        if url.count('rss.feedsportal.com'):
            #u = url.replace('0Bhtml/story01.htm','_pf0Bhtml/story01.htm')
            u = url.find('irishtimes')
            u = 'http://www.irishtimes.com' + url[u + 12:]
            u = u.replace('0C', '/')
            u = u.replace('A', '')
            u = u.replace('0Bhtml/story01.htm', '_pf.html')
        else:
            u = url.replace('.html','_pf.html')
        return u

    def get_article_url(self, article):
        return article.link