[jwhittin]

Hi,

I've been using the built in Economist recipe for years (I'm a subscriber) but suddenly today it failed. I've upgraded to the latest version and tried both versions of the recipe and still have the same problem. I checked the Economist website and (signed in) could read all articles.

The error message is:

Fetch news from The Economist
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 2.61.0
{'asciiize': False,
'author_sort': None,
'authors': None,
'base_font_size': 0,
'book_producer': None,
'change_justification': 'original',
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'comments': None,
'cover': None,
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'dont_download_recipe': False,
'dont_split_on_page_breaks': True,
'duplicate_links_in_toc': False,
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'enable_heuristics': False,
'epub_flatten': False,
'epub_inline_toc': False,
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'expand_css': False,
'extra_css': None,
'extract_to': None,
'filter_css': None,
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'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.SonyReaderOutput object at 0x042ACA70>,
'page_breaks_before': None,
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'preserve_cover_aspect_ratio': False,
'pretty_print': True,
'pubdate': None,
'publisher': None,
'rating': None,
'read_metadata_from_opf': None,
'remove_fake_margins': True,
'remove_first_image': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing': False,
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'renumber_headings': True,
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'title': None,
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'unsmarten_punctuation': False,
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InputFormatPlugin: Recipe Input running
Using custom recipe
Python function terminated unexpectedly
Could not find any articles, either the economist.com server is having trouble and you should try later or the website format has changed and the recipe needs to be updated. (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 190, 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 1060, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\conversion.py", line 241, in __call__
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plugins\recipe_ input.py", line 117, in convert
File "site-packages\calibre\web\feeds\news.py", line 998, in download
File "site-packages\calibre\web\feeds\news.py", line 1163, in build_index
File "<string>", line 78, in parse_index
File "<string>", line 125, in economist_parse_index
Exception: Could not find any articles, either the economist.com server is having trouble and you should try later or the website format has changed and the recipe needs to be updated.

Any idea what the problem could be?

Many thanks

John