Help with Error, please

[rupertbear]

I have been downloading The Guardian and Observer (UK) successfully for over a year. Recently it has become less reliable, sometimes needing two or three attempts.

Today, though, I cannot get it to work at all. Can anyone interpret this for me:

calibre, version 0.8.19
ERROR: Conversion Error: <b>Failed</b>: Fetch news from The Guardian and The Observer

Fetch news from The Guardian and The Observer
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 0.8.19
{'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_compress': False,
'dont_download_recipe': False,
'duplicate_links_in_toc': False,
'enable_heuristics': False,
'extra_css': None,
'extract_to': None,
'fix_indents': True,
'font_size_mapping': None,
'format_scene_breaks': True,
'html_unwrap_factor': 0.4,
'input_encoding': None,
'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x040EE9F0>,
'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,
'mobi_ignore_margins': False,
'mobi_toc_at_start': False,
'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
'no_inline_navbars': True,
'no_inline_toc': False,
'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.KindleOutput object at 0x02548D70>,
'page_breaks_before': None,
'password': None,
'personal_doc': '[PDOC]',
'prefer_author_sort': False,
'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
'pretty_print': False,
'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': '',
'rescale_images': False,
'series': None,
'series_index': None,
'share_not_sync': False,
'smarten_punctuation': False,
'sr1_replace': '',
'sr1_search': '',
'sr2_replace': '',
'sr2_search': '',
'sr3_replace': '',
'sr3_search': '',
'tags': None,
'test': False,
'timestamp': None,
'title': None,
'title_sort': None,
'toc_filter': None,
'toc_threshold': 6,
'toc_title': None,
'unsmarten_punctuation': False,
'unwrap_lines': True,
'use_auto_toc': False,
'username': None,
'verbose': 2}
InputFormatPlugin: Recipe Input running
Python function terminated unexpectedly
(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 187, 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 947, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\conversion.py", line 204, in __call__
File "site-packages\calibre\web\feeds\input.py", line 105, in convert
File "site-packages\calibre\web\feeds\news.py", line 825, in download
File "site-packages\calibre\web\feeds\news.py", line 967, in build_index
File "site-packages\calibre\web\feeds\news.py", line 1366, in parse_feeds
File "site-packages\calibre\web\feeds\news.py", line 371, in get_feeds
NotImplementedError

Thanks

[kovidgoyal]

I've changed the recipe to give a better error message. Try it again and post the next time you get an error. I just tried the recipe and it worked for me.

[rupertbear]

Thanks, I'll let you know if I have further problems.

[rupertbear]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

I've changed the recipe to give a better error message. Try it again and post the next time you get an error. I just tried the recipe and it worked for me.

In the past, two or three attempts have allowed a successful download. Today, no success after six attempts:

InputFormatPlugin: Recipe Input running
Python function terminated unexpectedly
<urlopen error [Errno 10060] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond> (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 187, 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 947, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\conversion.py", line 204, in __call__
File "site-packages\calibre\web\feeds\input.py", line 105, in convert
File "site-packages\calibre\web\feeds\news.py", line 825, in download
File "site-packages\calibre\web\feeds\news.py", line 962, in build_index
File "c:\docume~1\admini~1\locals~1\temp\calibre_0.8.19 _tmp_1e9lpb\lkrhrz_recipes\recipe0.py", line 127, in parse_index
feeds.append((title, list(self.find_articles(href))))
File "c:\docume~1\admini~1\locals~1\temp\calibre_0.8.19 _tmp_1e9lpb\lkrhrz_recipes\recipe0.py", line 104, in find_articles
soup = self.index_to_soup(url)
File "site-packages\calibre\web\feeds\news.py", line 539, in index_to_soup
File "site-packages\mechanize-0.2.4-py2.7.egg\mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 199, in open_novisit
File "site-packages\mechanize-0.2.4-py2.7.egg\mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 230, in _mech_open
File "site-packages\mechanize-0.2.4-py2.7.egg\mechanize\_opener.py", line 193, in open
File "site-packages\mechanize-0.2.4-py2.7.egg\mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 344, in _open
File "site-packages\mechanize-0.2.4-py2.7.egg\mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 332, in _call_chain
File "site-packages\mechanize-0.2.4-py2.7.egg\mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 1142, in http_open
File "site-packages\mechanize-0.2.4-py2.7.egg\mechanize\_urllib2_fork.py", line 1118, in do_open
urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 10060] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond>

Other programmes are connecting OK. Does Calibre have short timeouts?

Thanks for your help.

[kovidgoyal]

You can go to Preferences->Behavior and change the default network timeout, but I doubt that will help. This looks like either the guardian server is having trouble or there is something in the network path to it that is having trouble.

[rupertbear]

I have indirectly solved the problem, but I am no wiser.

I installed Calibre on another PC on the same network and all is well.

Other applications on the original PC which use the network connection do not exhibit any problems.

A mystery, but thanks for your help anyway.