Economist on Calibre ToC

[bg284]

Hi — I recently noticed that my Economist issues in Calibre look different, specifically in how navigation and the table of contents are displayed.

Previously, there was a structured index page I could navigate to. Now, I only see the default Kindle table of contents, with no way to access that index.

What’s confusing is that this change affects all my past issues as well, not just newly downloaded ones — even though I haven’t changed anything in my setup.

Anyone facing the same issue or knowing the solution here?

[dajare]

Not that, but I just updated Calibre to v. 9.9 and Economist fails to download at all. :/ Here's the output of the "Details" button:

Spoiler:

calibre, version 9.9.0 (linux, embedded-python: True)
Conversion error: Failed: Fetch news from The Economist

Fetch news from The Economist
Conversion options changed from defaults:
  verbose: 2
  output_profile: 'generic_eink'
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 9.9.0
{'add_alt_text_to_img': False,
 '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_max_image_size': 'none',
 '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 0x71317a91c590>,
 '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 0x71317a91da90>,
 '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,
 'recipe_specific_option': 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:economist
Trying to get latest version of recipe: economist
Using user agent: Congress/stare
Recipe specific options:
  res = 600
  de = No
QRhiGles2: Failed to create temporary context
QRhiGles2: Failed to create context
This plugin does not support createPlatformVulkanInstance
QVulkanInstance: Failed to initialize Vulkan
Unable to detect GPU vendor.
Failed to get index with UA: Congress/stare
Retrying with UA: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/144.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Using user agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/144.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
QRhiGles2: Failed to create temporary context
QRhiGles2: Failed to create context
This plugin does not support createPlatformVulkanInstance
QVulkanInstance: Failed to initialize Vulkan
Unable to detect GPU vendor.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "runpy.py", line 203, in _run_module_as_main
  File "runpy.py", line 88, in _run_code
  File "site.py", line 52, in <module>
  File "site.py", line 48, in main
  File "calibre/utils/ipc/worker.py", line 214, in main
  File "calibre/gui2/convert/gui_conversion.py", line 32, in gui_convert_recipe
  File "calibre/gui2/convert/gui_conversion.py", line 26, in gui_convert
  File "calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py", line 1087, in run
  File "calibre/customize/conversion.py", line 241, in __call__
  File "calibre/ebooks/conversion/plugins/recipe_input.py", line 153, in convert
  File "calibre/web/feeds/news.py", line 1121, in download
  File "calibre/web/feeds/news.py", line 1299, in build_index
  File "<string>", line 289, in parse_index
  File "<string>", line 266, in economist_return_index
NoArticles: Could not find any articles, either the economist.com server is having trouble and you should try later or the website format has changed and the recipe needs to be updated.

[dajare]

UPDATE: I saw in another thread that others were having trouble with the Economist just now. But Kovid had replied, and it seemed to work so I tried again now ... and it worked just fine. Odd, but nice to see things "normal".