The Economist

[Cedrus]

Hello,
I am unable to download The Economist. I have upgrade from Calibre version 6.16 to 6.17, all else being equal. It still does not work. Details of the error below. Anybody has a clue about what I can do to solve this ?
Many thanks

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calibre, version 6.17.0 (win32, embedded-python: True)
Conversion error: Failed: Fetch news from The Economist

Fetch news from The Economist
Conversion options changed from defaults:
  verbose: 2
  output_profile: 'kindle_pw'
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 6.17.0
{'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_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 0x0000022BA6819D20>,
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 'insert_metadata': False,
 'isbn': None,
 'italicize_common_cases': True,
 'keep_ligatures': False,
 'language': None,
 'level1_toc': None,
 'level2_toc': None,
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 'line_height': 0,
 'linearize_tables': False,
 'lrf': False,
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 'markup_chapter_headings': True,
 'max_toc_links': 50,
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 'no_default_epub_cover': False,
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 'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.KindlePaperWhiteOutput object at 0x0000022BA681A2F0>,
 'page_breaks_before': None,
 'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
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 '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': '',
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 'start_reading_at': None,
 'subset_embedded_fonts': False,
 'tags': None,
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 '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,
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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
Kindle Output profile being used, reducing image quality to keep file size below amazon email threshold
Got cover: https://www.economist.com/media-asse...0513_DE_EU.jpg
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 284, in parse_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.

[j.p.s]

There is nothing at the URL
https://www.economist.com/media-asse...0513_DE_EU.jpg
so like the bottom of log says

or the website format has changed and the recipe needs to be updated

(Did you read it?)

[NSILMike]

Originally Posted by j.p.s

There is nothing at the URL
https://www.economist.com/media-asse...0513_DE_EU.jpg
so like the bottom of log says

(Did you read it?)

So must be a recent change. The recipe worked for me on Friday the 5th.

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by NSILMike

So must be a recent change. The recipe worked for me on Friday the 5th.

I think the Economist web site is intermittantly changing the MIME type advertised for the cover image. Maybe skipping trying to download the cover image will allow the rest of the recipe to work. I don't use calibre to fetch magzines anymore, so that's all I can say about it.

When I click on the above link, my browser offers to download it. If I do so, I can open the image, so maybe the recipe will work as before. Earlier, I got some kind of error when I clicked on the link.

[kovidgoyal]

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...c317a50e52e909

[Cedrus]

Seems to work again now. Many thanks for solving the issue!