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Using a VPN with a new IP address today, tried to open an article on website (paid subscription) and got a warning page identifying my IP address and forcing me to go through 3 elaborate Captchas removing pictures of busses to prove I was not a Robot.

I had been caught via calibre of being a robot this morning this morning during repeated failed downloads of NYT. My IP was blocked by NYT website for NINE HOURS today. So I had been using a VPN to access the website. That worked all day till I got flagged with this big Captcha this afternoon.

SO I TRIED DOWNLOADING NYT in calibre again using a VPN and a 15 second delay. That worked this morning but failed repeatedly this afternoon. I think maybe it got stuck on this Captcha right away. The failures were quick. Downloads completed but all sections empty.

Partial log (calibre 6.8):

File "socket.py", line 955, in getaddrinfo
socket.gaierror: [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "runpy.py", line 196, in _run_module_as_main
File "runpy.py", line 86, in _run_code
File "site.py", line 82, in <module>
File "site.py", line 77, in main
File "site.py", line 49, in run_entry_point
File "calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 215, in main
File "calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 31, in gui_convert_recipe
File "calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 25, in gui_convert
File "calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 1108, in run
File "calibre\customize\conversion.py", line 242, in __call__
File "calibre\ebooks\conversion\plugins\recipe_input.py ", line 138, in convert
File "calibre\web\feeds\news.py", line 1058, in download
File "calibre\web\feeds\news.py", line 1227, in build_index
File "<string>", line 272, in parse_index
File "<string>", line 141, in parse_todays_page
File "<string>", line 133, in read_nyt_metadata
File "<string>", line 130, in read_todays_paper
File "<string>", line 112, in get_nyt_page
File "mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 241, in open_novisit
File "mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 287, in _mech_open
File "mechanize\_opener.py", line 193, in open
File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 425, in _open
File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 414, in _call_chain
File "calibre\utils\browser.py", line 28, in https_open
File "mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 1240, in do_open
urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed>