[michailbachtin]

On both my machines (Windows 10 & Windows 11) I get the same error message when trying to download the New York Times and the New York Times Book Review.

I'd be grateful for some help.

Cheers

Here the error message:

Spoiler:

calibre, version 8.10.0 (win32, embedded-python: True)
Conversion error: Failed: Fetch news from The New York Times

Fetch news from The New York Times
Failed to initialize plugin: 'C:\\Users\\mrbri\\AppData\\Roaming\\calibre\\plugins\\Goodreads.zip'
Failed to initialize plugin: 'C:\\Users\\mrbri\\AppData\\Roaming\\calibre\\plugins\\Kindle hi-res covers.zip'
Conversion options changed from defaults:
  verbose: 2
  output_profile: 'generic_eink_large'
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 8.10.0
{'add_alt_text_to_img': False,
 'asciiize': False,
 'author_sort': None,
 'authors': None,
 'base_font_size': 0,
 'book_producer': None,
 'change_justification': 'original',
 'chapter': None,
 'chapter_mark': 'pagebreak',
 'comments': None,
 'cover': None,
 'debug_pipeline': None,
 'dehyphenate': True,
 'delete_blank_paragraphs': True,
 'disable_font_rescaling': False,
 'dont_download_recipe': False,
 'dont_split_on_page_breaks': True,
 'duplicate_links_in_toc': False,
 'embed_all_fonts': False,
 'embed_font_family': None,
 'enable_heuristics': False,
 'epub_flatten': False,
 'epub_inline_toc': False,
 'epub_max_image_size': 'none',
 'epub_toc_at_end': False,
 'epub_version': '2',
 'expand_css': False,
 'extra_css': None,
 'extract_to': None,
 'filter_css': None,
 'fix_indents': True,
 'flow_size': 260,
 'font_size_mapping': None,
 'format_scene_breaks': True,
 'html_unwrap_factor': 0.4,
 'input_encoding': None,
 'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x000001B8F33706D0>,
 'insert_blank_line': False,
 'insert_blank_line_size': 0.5,
 'insert_metadata': False,
 'isbn': None,
 'italicize_common_cases': True,
 'keep_ligatures': False,
 'language': None,
 'level1_toc': None,
 'level2_toc': None,
 'level3_toc': None,
 'line_height': 0,
 'linearize_tables': False,
 'lrf': False,
 'margin_bottom': 5.0,
 'margin_left': 5.0,
 'margin_right': 5.0,
 'margin_top': 5.0,
 'markup_chapter_headings': True,
 'max_toc_links': 50,
 'minimum_line_height': 120.0,
 'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
 'no_default_epub_cover': False,
 'no_inline_navbars': False,
 'no_svg_cover': False,
 'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.GenericEinkLarge object at 0x000001B8F33DD590>,
 'page_breaks_before': None,
 'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
 'preserve_cover_aspect_ratio': False,
 'pretty_print': True,
 'pubdate': None,
 'publisher': None,
 'rating': None,
 'read_metadata_from_opf': None,
 'recipe_specific_option': None,
 'remove_fake_margins': True,
 'remove_first_image': False,
 'remove_paragraph_spacing': False,
 'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5,
 'renumber_headings': True,
 'replace_scene_breaks': '',
 'search_replace': None,
 'series': None,
 'series_index': None,
 'smarten_punctuation': False,
 'sr1_replace': '',
 'sr1_search': '',
 'sr2_replace': '',
 'sr2_search': '',
 'sr3_replace': '',
 'sr3_search': '',
 'start_reading_at': None,
 'subset_embedded_fonts': False,
 'tags': None,
 'test': False,
 'timestamp': None,
 'title': None,
 'title_sort': None,
 'toc_filter': None,
 'toc_threshold': 6,
 'toc_title': None,
 'transform_css_rules': None,
 'transform_html_rules': None,
 'unsmarten_punctuation': False,
 'unwrap_lines': True,
 'use_auto_toc': False,
 'verbose': 2}
InputFormatPlugin: Recipe Input running
Downloading recipe urn: builtin:nytimes_sub
Trying to get latest version of recipe: nytimes_sub
Using user agent: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; archive.org_bot; Wayback Machine Live Record; +http://archive.org/details/archive.org_bot)
Recipe specific options:
  web = Todays Paper
  days = 7
  comp = no
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "runpy.py", line 198, in _run_module_as_main
  File "runpy.py", line 88, in _run_code
  File "site.py", line 83, in <module>
  File "site.py", line 78, in main
  File "site.py", line 50, in run_entry_point
  File "calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 213, in main
  File "calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 32, in gui_convert_recipe
  File "calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 26, in gui_convert
  File "calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 1089, in run
  File "calibre\customize\conversion.py", line 242, in __call__
  File "calibre\ebooks\conversion\plugins\recipe_input.py", line 153, in convert
  File "calibre\web\feeds\news.py", line 1121, in download
  File "calibre\web\feeds\news.py", line 1299, in build_index
  File "<string>", line 223, in parse_index
  File "<string>", line 197, in parse_todays_page
  File "<string>", line 309, in parse_todays_page
  File "<string>", line 269, in preloaded_data
  File "json\decoder.py", line 353, in raw_decode
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting ',' delimiter: line 1 column 491475 (char 491474)