USA Today Fails

[anleva]

I am getting the following error message when attempting to download. I also notice that my local paper, which is also a Gannett publication with similar look and feel and HTML coding to USA Today, is also failing. I have created a custom recipe for the local paper. I wonder if they have changed something on their web sites?

calibre, version 2.82.0 (linux2, embedded-python: True)
Conversion Error: Failed: Fetch news from USA Today

Fetch news from USA Today
Conversion options changed from defaults:
verbose: 2
output_profile: 'kindle_pw3'
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 2.82.0
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InputFormatPlugin: Recipe Input running
Using custom recipe
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site.py", line 66, in main
File "site-packages/calibre/utils/ipc/worker.py", line 195, in main
File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/convert/gui_conversion.py", line 26, in gui_convert
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py", line 1074, in run
File "site-packages/calibre/customize/conversion.py", line 245, in __call__
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plugins/recipe_input.py", line 119, in convert
File "site-packages/calibre/web/feeds/news.py", line 1011, in download
File "site-packages/calibre/web/feeds/news.py", line 1186, in build_index
ValueError: No articles found, aborting

[kovidgoyal]

No, it's because the Gannett RSS feed URLs have changed. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...b2608a47a11562

[anleva]

Thank you.

Did you find those URLs somewhere? The RSS page still references the old syntax. It looks like you made it all lower case and added &x=1 to the end. What does that suffix do?

[kovidgoyal]

The HTML pages that the old RSS feeds point to have the new URLs in their <meta> tags

[JSWolf]

USA today sure does fail. Donald Trump's latest executive order is going to help destroy the environment.

[anleva]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

The HTML pages that the old RSS feeds point to have the new URLs in their <meta> tags

Thank you!