Update Newspaper Front Cover

[Glenn680]

Hi, created a simple recipe that would include the newspaper front page each day. However that newspaper front cover is no longer updated daily on the current site. So I found a new site to pull the newspaper cover which is updated daily- but the recipe is not working. Not sure what I'm doing wrong (?)

Previous recipe (worked well):
def get_cover_url(self):
soup = self.index_to_soup('https://www.frontpages.com/star-tribune/')
return 'https://www.frontpages.com' + soup.find('img', attrs={'id':'giornale-img'})['src']

New recipe (not working):
def get_cover_url(self):
soup = self.index_to_soup('https://frontpages.freedomforum.org/newspapers/mn_st-Star_Tribune')
return 'https://frontpages.freedomforum.org' + soup.find('img', attrs={'id':'giornale-img'})['src']

Please let me know how to fix. The new recipe only pulls a generic cover. Thanks.

[Glenn680]

Haven't seen any responses, thinking (hoping) this is a simple fix I can make within the recipe. Any thoughts on this? Please let me know, thanks.

[juanferna]

Try this:

def get_cover_url(self):

from calibre import strftime
cover = 'https://d2dr22b2lm4tvw.cloudfront.net/mn_st/' + strftime("%Y-%m-%d") + '/front-page-large.jpg'
return cover

[Glenn680]

Thanks I couldn't get the cover to display from your updated code. Appreciate the effort.

Understanding I can swap out the cover myself in properties post-download, still looking for an automated script that will pull the cover as part of the recipe. Glad to review anyone else's attempts at this - thanks all.

[economicsreader]

Originally Posted by juanferna

Try this:

def get_cover_url(self):

from calibre import strftime
cover = 'https://d2dr22b2lm4tvw.cloudfront.net/mn_st/' + strftime("%Y-%m-%d") + '/front-page-large.jpg'
return cover

Why is this not working for you? I just tested it on a random existing recipe and it works fine.

[Glenn680]

This is the full recipe, which continues to pull a generic Calibre cover. Anything I can update to make it work? I'm using the tab key to indent so maybe that's it. Otherwise just pasting in the 'get cover' code as provided. New at building recipes, so likely I'm missing something obvious:

from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe

class AdvancedUserRecipe1706194709(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title          = 'Star Tribune Test'
    oldest_article = 7
    max_articles_per_feed = 100
    auto_cleanup   = True

    feeds          = [
    
        ('Local', 'https://www.startribune.com/local/index.rss2'),
        ('Sports', 'https://www.startribune.com/sports/index.rss2'),
        ('Business', 'https://www.startribune.com/business/index.rss2'),
        ('Politics', 'https://www.startribune.com/politics/index.rss2'),
        ('Opinion', 'https://www.startribune.com/opinion/index.rss2'),
        ('Variety', 'https://www.startribune.com/variety/index.rss2'),
        ('Photography', 'https://www.startribune.com/galleries/index.rss2'),
    ]
    
def get_cover_url(self):
    from calibre import strftime
    cover = 'https://d2dr22b2lm4tvw.cloudfront.net/mn_st/' + strftime("%Y-%m-%d") + '/front-page-large.jpg'
    return cover

[unkn0wn]

use fetch cover code from zaobao recipe which used frontpages.freedomforum.org