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Calibre can't download Slate
For the past week or so, Calibre has failed to download Slate. I installed version 1.5 but this didn't fix the problem. Here is the error message:
Fetch news from Slate Resolved conversion options calibre version: 1.5.0 {'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_compress': False, 'dont_download_recipe': False, 'duplicate_links_in_toc': False, 'embed_all_fonts': False, 'embed_font_family': None, 'enable_heuristics': False, 'extra_css': None, 'extract_to': None, 'filter_css': None, 'fix_indents': True, 'font_size_mapping': None, 'format_scene_breaks': True, 'html_unwrap_factor': 0.4, 'input_encoding': None, 'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x03527950>, 'insert_blank_line': False, 'insert_blank_line_size': 0.5, '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, 'mobi_file_type': 'old', 'mobi_ignore_margins': False, 'mobi_keep_original_images': False, 'mobi_toc_at_start': False, 'no_chapters_in_toc': False, 'no_inline_navbars': True, 'no_inline_toc': False, 'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.KindleOutput object at 0x036D4030>, 'page_breaks_before': None, 'personal_doc': '[PDOC]', 'prefer_author_sort': False, 'prefer_metadata_cover': False, 'pretty_print': False, '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, 'share_not_sync': False, 'smarten_punctuation': False, 'sr1_replace': '', 'sr1_search': '', 'sr2_replace': '', 'sr2_search': '', 'sr3_replace': '', 'sr3_search': '', 'start_reading_at': None, 'subset_embedded_fonts': False, 'tags': None, 'test': False, 'timestamp': None, 'title': None, 'title_sort': None, 'toc_filter': None, 'toc_threshold': 6, 'toc_title': None, 'unsmarten_punctuation': False, 'unwrap_lines': True, 'use_auto_toc': False, 'verbose': 2} InputFormatPlugin: Recipe Input running Using custom recipe Found section: News & Politics Python function terminated unexpectedly 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'findAll' (Error Code: 1) Traceback (most recent call last): File "site.py", line 132, in main File "site.py", line 109, in run_entry_point File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 189, 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 1027, in run File "site-packages\calibre\customize\conversion.py", line 241, in __call__ File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plugins\recipe_ input.py", line 114, in convert File "site-packages\calibre\web\feeds\news.py", line 980, in download File "site-packages\calibre\web\feeds\news.py", line 1145, in build_index File "<string>", line 52, in parse_index File "<string>", line 69, in slate_section_articles AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'findAll' |
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Are you using a custom recipe? use the builtin recipe and you should be fine. At least I just tried it and it worked for me
Last edited by kovidgoyal; 10-06-2013 at 12:26 PM. |
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Thanks for your quick reply. I was using a custom recipe. I just switched to the builtin recipe and it worked fine. However, it is 39 MB, and files that large sometimes cause problems with my K3. I think I modified the recipe to make it smaller, which obviously no longer works with Calibre.
Can you suggest any changes that will do that without interfering with the fetch process? I don't care about image size, if that helps. Thanks again. |
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You will just need to make the same modifications again. Drop some sections or limit the number of articles. I have modified the builtin recipe to compress the images more which should help.
Last edited by kovidgoyal; 10-06-2013 at 11:40 PM. |
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It worked - today's download was much smaller at 6 MB. Thanks for making such quick changes, and for creating this great program in the first place. Calibre completely changed how I read news and made my Kindle so much more useful than I imagined.
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