The Mainichi fails on every download

[rasteps]

The Mainichi fails on every download attempt for me. Is this happening for anyone else?

[rasteps]

What does this error code mean?

Spoiler:

Fetch news from The Mainichi
Conversion options changed from defaults:
output_profile: 'generic_eink'
verbose: 2
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 6.13.0
{'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_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 0x000002B5D9A855D0>,
'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.GenericEink object at 0x000002B5D9A858D0>,
'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:mainichi_en
Trying to get latest version of recipe: mainichi_en
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 196, in _run_module_as_main
File "runpy.py", line 86, in _run_code
File "site.py", line 83, in <module>
File "site.py", line 78, in main
File "site.py", line 50, in run_entry_point
File "calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 215, in main
File "calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 31, in gui_convert_recipe
File "calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 25, in gui_convert
File "calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 1108, in run
File "calibre\customize\conversion.py", line 242, in __call__
File "calibre\ebooks\conversion\plugins\recipe_input.py ", line 138, in convert
File "calibre\web\feeds\news.py", line 1056, in download
File "calibre\web\feeds\news.py", line 1225, in build_index
File "<string>", line 125, in parse_index
File "calibre\web\feeds\news.py", line 707, in index_to_soup
File "mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 241, in open_novisit
File "mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 313, in _mech_open
mechanize._response.get_seek_wrapper_class.<locals >.httperror_seek_wrapper: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

[kovidgoyal]

It means the index page the recipe uses no longer exists.

[rasteps]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

It means the index page the recipe uses no longer exists.

Hmm....thanks for letting me know.

[rasteps]

I checked the url which is listed as the "index" page

https://mainichi.jp/english/

And it does exist and is accessible. So maybe there is a different error.

[unkn0wn]

"""
www.mainichi.jp/english
"""

from calibre.ptempfile import PersistentTemporaryFile
from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe

class MainichiEnglishNews(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title = u"The Mainichi"
    __author__ = 'unkn0wn'

    description = "Japanese traditional newspaper Mainichi news in English"
    publisher = "Mainichi News"
    publication_type = "newspaper"
    category = "news, japan"
    language = "en_JP"

    index = "http://mainichi.jp/english/"
    masthead_url = index + "images/themainichi.png"

    no_stylesheets = True
    remove_javascript = True
    auto_cleanup = True
    
    ignore_duplicate_articles = {'title'}
    
    articles_are_obfuscated = True
    
    def get_obfuscated_article(self, url):
        br = self.get_browser()
        try:
            br.open(url)
        except Exception as e:
            url = e.hdrs.get('location')
        soup = self.index_to_soup(url)
        link = soup.find('a', href=True)
        html = br.open(link['href']).read()
        pt = PersistentTemporaryFile('.html')
        pt.write(html)
        pt.close()
        return pt.name
    
    feeds = [
        ('Articles', 'https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=when:48h+allinurl:mainichi.jp%2Fenglish%2Farticles%2F&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en')
    ]

[rasteps]

Originally Posted by unkn0wn

"""
www.mainichi.jp/english
"""

from calibre.ptempfile import PersistentTemporaryFile
from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe

class MainichiEnglishNews(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title = u"The Mainichi"
    __author__ = 'unkn0wn'

    description = "Japanese traditional newspaper Mainichi news in English"
    publisher = "Mainichi News"
    publication_type = "newspaper"
    category = "news, japan"
    language = "en_JP"

    index = "http://mainichi.jp/english/"
    masthead_url = index + "images/themainichi.png"

    no_stylesheets = True
    remove_javascript = True
    auto_cleanup = True
    
    ignore_duplicate_articles = {'title'}
    
    articles_are_obfuscated = True
    
    def get_obfuscated_article(self, url):
        br = self.get_browser()
        try:
            br.open(url)
        except Exception as e:
            url = e.hdrs.get('location')
        soup = self.index_to_soup(url)
        link = soup.find('a', href=True)
        html = br.open(link['href']).read()
        pt = PersistentTemporaryFile('.html')
        pt.write(html)
        pt.close()
        return pt.name
    
    feeds = [
        ('Articles', 'https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=when:48h+allinurl:mainichi.jp%2Fenglish%2Farticles%2F&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en')
    ]

Is the fix to add "www"???

[unkn0wn]

no this is totally a new recipe of the website based on google feeds.

I didn't want to spend time to figure out all the issues with the old recipe.

[rasteps]

Thanks. This recipe is working again.

[rasteps]

Thanks. This recipe is working again. I guess I am the only one who uses it, so I should figure out how to fix these things.