How to update The Australian recipe for the new subscription model

[Morias]

The Australian newspaper has moved to a Freemium model and now requires a subscription to view most content in full.

Can someone who knows what they are doing please update the Recipe file. Thank you in advance.

I tried adding part of The Wallstreet Journal recipe to make it login, but failed as it now stops loading the newspaper after a couple of seconds.

This is what I did:

needs_subscription = True

def get_browser(self):
br = BasicNewsRecipe.get_browser()
if self.username is not None and self.password is not None:
br.open('http://www.theaustralian.com.au/login')
br.select_form(nr=1)
br['user'] = self.username
br['password'] = self.password
res = br.submit()
raw = res.read()
if 'Thankyou,' not in raw:
raise ValueError('Failed to log in, check your '
'username and password')
return br

[kovidgoyal]

Send me your username and password for that website in a private message and I'll see if I can add the login logic to the recipe

[Morias]

I have PM'd you the login. Thank you for your assistance with this.

It is a News Limited paper so I am guessing the login is similar to something they have done elsewhere in the world.

[kovidgoyal]

Login code will be in the next release. For the curious:

    needs_subscription = 'optional'
    def get_browser(self):
        br = BasicNewsRecipe.get_browser(self)
        if self.username and self.password:
            br.open('http://www.theaustralian.com.au')
            br.select_form(nr=0)
            br['username'] = self.username
            br['password'] = self.password
            raw = br.submit().read()
            if '>log out' not in raw.lower():
                raise ValueError('Failed to log in to www.theaustralian.com.au'
                        ' are your username and password correct?')
        return br

[Morias]

Thanks for your help. Your fix works great.