[jwhittin]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

I have changed the recipe to remove the graphql which is what was being blocked and additionally to use the android app user agent to fetch the article pages. that seems to be working for the moment, no idea how long it will survive.

I just tried a download and got the following error:

Spoiler:

calibre, version 9.11.0 (win32, embedded-python: True)
Conversion error: Failed: Fetch news from The Economist

Fetch news from The Economist
Conversion options changed from defaults:
output_profile: 'kindle_pw3'
verbose: 2
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 9.11.0
{'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 0x0000022D3556C830>,
'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.KindlePaperWhite3Outpu t object at 0x0000022D3556F230>,
'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:economist
Trying to get latest version of recipe: economist
Using user agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 14) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.6533.103 Mobile Safari/537.36 Liskov
Recipe specific options:
res = 600
Failed to get index with UA: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 14) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.6533.103 Mobile Safari/537.36 Liskov
Retrying with UA: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/147.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Using user agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 14) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.6533.103 Mobile Safari/537.36 Liskov
Falling back to GraphQL for the edition index
Failed to get index from GraphQL with error: <urlopen error [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "runpy.py", line 203, 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 214, 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 1087, in run
File "calibre\customize\conversion.py", line 241, 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 333, in parse_index
File "<string>", line 299, in economist_return_index
NoArticles: 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.

This looks like the same error that I had before. So I'm not sure if I'm using the new recipe or the old one. It's my understanding that Calibre runs the latest recipe but perhaps I am wrong. Do I need to update Calibre manually to get the latest recipe?

Or has it been blocked already?

I wish they would provide subscribers with a Kobo/Kindle version so we didn't have to go through all of this...