Google Recipe problem

[Dereks]

Hi, I've been using a modified version of google reader uber recipe for quite some time.
It was designed to get specifically last 50 starred items from my reader list.
Today when I downloaded the recipe, the file appeared to be empty. The file was generated properly, but with no contents, besides this message:

Failed feed: starred

TypeError('expected string or buffer',)

Here is the recipe code I was using:

import urllib, re, mechanize
from calibre.web.feeds.recipes import BasicNewsRecipe
from calibre import __appname__

class GoogleReader(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title   = 'Google Starred'
    description = 'This recipe downloads feeds you have tagged from your Google Reader account.'
    needs_subscription = True
    __author__ = 'davec'
    base_url = 'http://www.google.com/reader/atom/'
    oldest_article = 365
    max_articles_per_feed = 50
    get_options = '?n=50'
    preferred_feeds = ('starred', ) 
    use_embedded_content = True
    extra_css = '@font-face {font-family: "serif1";src:url(res:///opt/sony/ebook/FONT/tt0011m_.ttf)} @font-face {font-family: "monospace1";src:url(res:///opt/sony/ebook/FONT/tt0419m_.ttf)} @font-face {font-family: "sans1";src:url(res:///opt/sony/ebook/FONT/tt0003m_.ttf)} body{text-align: left; font-family: "serif1"} .article_date{font-family: "monospace1"}'

    def get_browser(self):
        br = BasicNewsRecipe.get_browser(self)
        if self.username is not None and self.password is not None:
            request = urllib.urlencode([('Email', self.username), ('Passwd', self.password),
                                        ('service', 'reader'), ('accountType', 'HOSTED_OR_GOOGLE'), ('source', __appname__)])
            response = br.open('https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin', request)
            auth = re.search('Auth=(\S*)', response.read()).group(1)
            print 'Auth is: ', auth
            cookies = mechanize.CookieJar()
            br = mechanize.build_opener(mechanize.HTTPCookieProcessor(cookies))
            br.addheaders = [('Authorization', 'GoogleLogin auth='+auth)]
        return br

    def get_feeds(self):
        feeds = []
        soup = self.index_to_soup('http://www.google.com/reader/api/0/tag/list')
        for id in soup.findAll(True, attrs={'name':['id']}):
            url = id.contents[0]
            feed_name = re.search('/([^/]*)$', url).group(1)
            if not self.preferred_feeds or feed_name in self.preferred_feeds:
                 feeds.append((feed_name,
                          self.base_url + urllib.quote(url.encode('utf-8')) + self.get_options))
        return feeds

I accessed google reader API - list of feeds is still there, unchanged, therefore have no idea what may be the problem...

[kovidgoyal]

re-install 0.7.45

[Dereks]

just did that. Same error.

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by Dereks

just did that. Same error.

If I follow things here correctly you have to delete any 0.7.45 msi you have then download a fresh copy. Uninstall calibre then reinstall from this fresh copy.

[Dereks]

ok. that helped. Thanks.