newsweek download error

[kevinrs]

been getting an error with newsweek for a while now, been ignoring it, only thread I see here seems unrelated, partly because I never had used calibre back when that issue happened.

calibre, version 0.7.56
ERROR: Conversion Error: <b>Failed</b>: Fetch news from Newsweek

Fetch news from Newsweek
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 0.7.56
{'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,
'enable_heuristics': False,
'epub_flatten': False,
'extra_css': None,
'extract_to': 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 0x058F2410>,
'insert_blank_line': False,
'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.NookOutput object at 0x058F27D0>,
'page_breaks_before': None,
'password': 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': '',
'series': None,
'series_index': None,
'smarten_punctuation': False,
'sr1_replace': '',
'sr1_search': '',
'sr2_replace': '',
'sr2_search': '',
'sr3_replace': '',
'sr3_search': '',
'tags': None,
'test': False,
'timestamp': None,
'title': None,
'title_sort': None,
'toc_filter': None,
'toc_threshold': 6,
'unwrap_lines': True,
'use_auto_toc': False,
'username': None,
'verbose': 2}
InputFormatPlugin: Recipe Input running
Python function terminated unexpectedly
No articles found, aborting (Error Code: 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site.py", line 103, in main
File "site.py", line 85, in run_entry_point
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 119, in main
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 25, in gui_convert
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 915, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\conversion.py", line 204, in __call__
File "site-packages\calibre\web\feeds\input.py", line 105, in convert
File "site-packages\calibre\web\feeds\news.py", line 735, in download
File "site-packages\calibre\web\feeds\news.py", line 880, in build_index
ValueError: No articles found, aborting

[kovidgoyal]

fixed.

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

fixed.

I was just about to post "Worked4Me"

[mkgtu]

I just submitted a bug report on this.
I, too, have been unable to download Newsweek for some time, even with the built in recipe. But did notice this morning that the recipe worked. I guess that is the "fix". However, I have always added a custom recipe with just the title changed to "Newsweek online" to avoid confusion with and replacement of the Amazon Kindle edition to which I also subscribe. (The calibre version contains more articles and retains older articles from the web)
So now the built in recipe works, but changing the title still causes it to fail by "finding no articles".
EDIT: just got reply to bug from Kovid. Seems I am customizing an outdated recipe. I seem to recall reading somewhere that when using built-in recipe (in this case, in version 7.56, latest) calibre actually checks online for updated recipe, which must be why the non-customized version works? But customizing the built-in (offline) recipe does not allow for finding a newer version during the download process. Only explanation I can think of.