Houston Chronicle no longer working

[duluoz]

Error message below. Fails almost instantly.

Fetch news from The Houston Chronicle
Conversion options changed from defaults:
  output_profile: u'kindle_pw3'
  verbose: 2
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 4.20.0
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 'pubdate': None,
 'publisher': None,
 'rating': None,
 'read_metadata_from_opf': None,
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 'renumber_headings': True,
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 'search_replace': None,
 'series': None,
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 'share_not_sync': False,
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 'sr1_replace': u'',
 'sr1_search': u'',
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 'start_reading_at': None,
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 'tags': None,
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 'title': None,
 'title_sort': None,
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InputFormatPlugin: Recipe Input running
Downloading recipe urn: builtin:houston_chronicle
Trying to get latest version of recipe: houston_chronicle
Using user agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/72.0.3626.121 Safari/537.36
starting parse_index:  20200921071514
getting links from news
http://www.chron.com/ rejected, title too short
http://www.chron.com/ rejected, title too short
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "site.py", line 77, in main
  File "site-packages/calibre/utils/ipc/worker.py", line 209, in main
  File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/convert/gui_conversion.py", line 36, in gui_convert_recipe
  File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/convert/gui_conversion.py", line 28, in gui_convert
  File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py", line 1110, in run
  File "site-packages/calibre/customize/conversion.py", line 246, in __call__
  File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plugins/recipe_input.py", line 139, in convert
  File "site-packages/calibre/web/feeds/news.py", line 1028, in download
  File "site-packages/calibre/web/feeds/news.py", line 1196, in build_index
  File "<string>", line 227, in parse_index
  File "<string>", line 111, in get_all_links_from_sections
  File "<string>", line 98, in get_links_from_section_page
  File "<string>", line 51, in validate_link
IndexError: list index out of range

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by duluoz

Error message below. Fails almost instantly.

starting parse_index:  20200921071514
getting links from news
http://www.chron.com/ rejected, title too short
http://www.chron.com/ rejected, title too short

Does the RSS link to the website work anymore? https://www.chron.com/news/rss/ returns a Page Not Found for me.

Edit: OTOH, it seems that https://www.chron.com/about/rss/ does give a list of RSS feeds.

[kovidgoyal]

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...1bff5de32da8a6