Economist not working

[davidsmartin]

I tried to download the Economist as I do every week, but got an error. I don't know if it is a temporary problem with their web site or if they have changed something to prevent downloads.

Below is the text of the error.

Thanks for any help,

David

calibre, version 5.12.0 (win32, embedded-python: True)
Conversion error: Failed: Fetch news from The Economist

Fetch news from The Economist
Conversion options changed from defaults:
verbose: 2
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 5.12.0
{'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,
'embed_all_fonts': False,
'embed_font_family': None,
'enable_heuristics': False,
'expand_css': False,
'extra_css': None,
'extract_to': None,
'filter_css': 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 0x000001E985114580>,
'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_file_type': 'old',
'mobi_ignore_margins': False,
'mobi_keep_original_images': False,
'mobi_toc_at_start': False,
'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
'no_inline_navbars': False,
'no_inline_toc': False,
'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.OutputProfile object at 0x000001E985114850>,
'page_breaks_before': 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': '',
'search_replace': None,
'series': None,
'series_index': None,
'share_not_sync': False,
'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,
'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 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.87 Safari/537.36
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "runpy.py", line 194, in _run_module_as_main
File "runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
File "site.py", line 82, in <module>
File "site.py", line 77, in main
File "site.py", line 49, in run_entry_point
File "calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 216, in main
File "calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 34, in gui_convert_recipe
File "calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 28, in gui_convert
File "calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 1108, in run
File "calibre\customize\conversion.py", line 245, in __call__
File "calibre\ebooks\conversion\plugins\recipe_input.py ", line 139, in convert
File "calibre\web\feeds\news.py", line 1051, in download
File "calibre\web\feeds\news.py", line 1220, in build_index
File "<string>", line 246, in parse_index
File "calibre\web\feeds\news.py", line 702, in index_to_soup
File "mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 241, in open_novisit
File "mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 313, in _mech_open
mechanize._response.httperror_seek_wrapper: HTTP Error 503: Service Temporarily Unavailable

[kovidgoyal]

its a server issue try again later

[davidsmartin]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

its a server issue try again later

Thanks. Today it worked fine.

[nano5]

Not sure if this is the same issue, but TE recipe not working for the last 2 days.

Conversion options changed from defaults:
output_profile: 'kindle_oasis'
change_justification: 'left'
pretty_print: True
test: None
1% Converting input to HTML...
InputFormatPlugin: Recipe Input running
Using custom recipe
Using user agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:85.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/85.0
Kindle Output profile being used, reducing image quality to keep file size below amazon email threshold
1% Fetching feeds...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "runpy.py", line 194, in _run_module_as_main
File "runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
File "site.py", line 39, in <module>
File "site.py", line 35, in main
File "calibre/ebooks/conversion/cli.py", line 401, in main
File "calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py", line 1105, in run
File "calibre/customize/conversion.py", line 245, in __call__
File "calibre/ebooks/conversion/plugins/recipe_input.py", line 139, in convert
File "calibre/web/feeds/news.py", line 1051, in download
File "calibre/web/feeds/news.py", line 1220, in build_index
File "<string>", line 246, in parse_index
File "calibre/web/feeds/news.py", line 702, in index_to_soup
File "mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 241, in open_novisit
File "mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 313, in _mech_open
mechanize._response.httperror_seek_wrapper: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

[kovidgoyal]

That's a forbidden error probably either the economist or some other server in the network path is blocking your IP address. I just tested it and its working fine for me.

[nano5]

Thanks for the clarification

I was using my AWS setup that probably being blocked by TE server, though little idea why.

[technicaltitch]

I'm also getting a 403 forbidden from my EC2 this week, although oddly I don't if I proxy through the same IP.

If they'd only make their app usable, or make it possible to log into our accounts without JavaScript..