Problem with Go Comics

[fsirett]

Just today, after using Calibre with few previous problems, none worth a mention, now I have a problem.

First, this is hthe report from the problem. I hope the "quotes" tags were correct.

calibre, version 6.3.0 (linux, embedded-python: False)
Conversion error: Failed: Fetch news from Go Comics

Fetch news from Go Comics
Failed to initialize plugin: '/home/frank/.config/calibre/plugins/Barnes & Noble.zip'
Failed to initialize plugin: '/home/frank/.config/calibre/plugins/Biblionet_gr.zip'
Failed to initialize plugin: '/home/frank/.config/calibre/plugins/Fantastic Fiction Adults.zip'
Failed to initialize plugin: '/home/frank/.config/calibre/plugins/Goodreads.zip'
Failed to initialize plugin: '/home/frank/.config/calibre/plugins/KePub Metadata Writer.zip'
Failed to initialize plugin: '/home/frank/.config/calibre/plugins/Kobo Books.zip'
Failed to initialize plugin: '/home/frank/.config/calibre/plugins/Skoob.zip'
Conversion options changed from defaults:
base_font_size: 14.0
verbose: 2
output_profile: 'tablet'
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 6.3.0
{'asciiize': False,
'author_sort': None,
'authors': None,
'base_font_size': 14.0,
'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_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 0x7f5158c92ce0>,
'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.TabletOutput object at 0x7f5158c934c0>,
'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,
'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:go_comics
Trying to get latest version of recipe: go_comics
Using user agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.87 Safari/537.36
Working on: Animal Crackers http://www.gocomics.com/animalcrackers
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/calibre-parallel", line 21, in <module>
sys.exit(main())
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/utils/ipc/worker.py", line 215, in main
result = func(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/gui2/convert/gui_conversion.py", line 31, in gui_convert_recipe
gui_convert('from-gui.recipe', output, recommendations, notification=notification,
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/gui2/convert/gui_conversion.py", line 25, in gui_convert
plumber.run()
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py", line 1108, in run
self.oeb = self.input_plugin(stream, self.opts,
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/customize/conversion.py", line 242, in __call__
ret = self.convert(stream, options, file_ext,
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plugins/recipe_input.py", line 138, in convert
ro.download()
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/web/feeds/news.py", line 1058, in download
res = self.build_index()
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/web/feeds/news.py", line 1227, in build_index
feeds = feeds_from_index(self.parse_index(), oldest_article=self.oldest_article,
File "<string>", line 547, in parse_index
File "<string>", line 581, in make_links
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/web/feeds/news.py", line 707, in index_to_soup
with closing(open_func(url_or_raw, timeout=self.timeout)) as f:
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 241, in open_novisit
return self._mech_open(
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 313, in _mech_open
raise response
mechanize._response.get_seek_wrapper_class.<locals >.httperror_seek_wrapper: HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable

I am using Ubuntu 22.04 abd have no problems with any other news feeds. Go has been reluctant in the past, but this is the first time it has been completely recalcitrant.

I uninstalled Calibre and reinstalled it, but the problem continues.

Does anybody have a solution?

Cheers,

fsirett

[hyegeek]

Gocomics has been down all day.

[kovidgoyal]

That's an error from the gocomics server you will have to wait for the server to be fixed.

[hyegeek]

Looks like they are still down this morning. Lots of complaints, but no one seems to know why they are offline.

[fsirett]

Cheers! I have just had the inspiration to actually look at the site and realise this has nothing to do with Calibre.

I noticed there was a complex problem earlier with the same error message. That had me worried. Sorry for the waste of space and many thanks for the replies,