De-drm problem affecting NYRB Archive recipe?

[franklekens]

I've suddenly noticed DeDrm isn't working anymore. Only after running up agains the problem I found this was a common problem and was also mentioned here in a sticky. That's rather a major bummer, and I do wonder -- are there plans to get this working again? Because I'm not sure about downgrading to 4.23 (apart from wondering how to do that), I'd like to have the latest versions of software & drivers to keep it working with the latest version of the Kobo firmware.

But in addition to that, I now have a problem with a recipe I sometimes used to retrieve back issues of the New York Review of Books (which I have a subscripiton to).

This no longer works, an done of the first lines in the error reports says:

Failed to initialize plugin: 'C:\\Users\\<path>\\calibre\\plugins\\DeDRM.zip'
Failed to initialize plugin: 'C:\\Users\\<path>\\calibre\\plugins\\Inept Epub DeDRM.zip'

I don't know what DeDrm would have to do with retrieving NYRB, but in any case: is the problem with the DeDrm zip affecting this recipe now as well? Or is there something else wrong with it?

Here's the full text of the error message:

calibre, version 5.2.0 (win32, embedded-python: True)
Conversion error: Failed: Fetch news from NYRB Archive

Fetch news from NYRB Archive
Failed to initialize plugin: 'C:\\Users\\<path>\\calibre\\plugins\\DeDRM.zip'
Failed to initialize plugin: 'C:\\Users\\<path>\\calibre\\plugins\\Inept Epub DeDRM.zip'
Conversion options changed from defaults:
  verbose: 2
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 5.2.0
{'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 0x08224880>,
 '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.OutputProfile object at 0x082249E8>,
 '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,
 'unsmarten_punctuation': False,
 'unwrap_lines': True,
 'use_auto_toc': False,
 'verbose': 2}
InputFormatPlugin: Recipe Input running
Downloading recipe urn: custom:1002
Using user agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/72.0.3626.121 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 215, 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 138, in convert
  File "calibre\web\feeds\news.py", line 904, in __init__
  File "<string>", line 55, in get_browser
  File "mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 809, in __setitem__
  File "mechanize\_form_controls.py", line 1963, in __setitem__
  File "mechanize\_form_controls.py", line 2355, in find_control
  File "mechanize\_form_controls.py", line 2448, in _find_control
mechanize._form_controls.ControlNotFoundError: no control matching name 'user_login'

[franklekens]

Well, I thought I'd try out the following: downgrading back to 4.23 and trying this News script again.
And it turns out the error seems unrelated to the Dedrm problem. In 4.23 the DeDrm plugin does work again (a relief), but the recipe still fails to work for me. Don't know what either I or the software are doing wrong. And the error report for the recipe doesn't contain those de-drm lines anymore either.

[kovidgoyal]

The website has changed, you need to update your recipe accordingly.

[JSWolf]

One other thing you can do is uninstall the Inept Epub DeDRM as it's no longer needed as everything is all in the DeDRM plugin.

[franklekens]

Thanks. Unfortunately, I'm not versed in python or whatever language those scripts are written in.

What I tried, was copy the first of these two recipes:
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...b6864438e5bda1

And replace the URL's in these lines

soup = self.index_to_soup('http://www.nybooks.com/current-issue')
soup = self.index_to_soup('https://www.nybooks.com/current-issue')

by the actual URL of a specific back issue https://www.nybooks.com/issues/2013/09/26/

But no dice.