Economist recipe fetches old issue

[Lameventanas]

I'm using Calibre 3.34 with the Economist recipe.

I am trying to download today's Economist issue, but it downloads the one from last week (which I already had).

I know the new one was released already because I can see it in their website.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

this is a bug on the economist website, going to the URL

https://www.economist.com/printedition/

is redirecting to last weeks issue instead of this weeks issue. Inform
them on that bug, and once they fix it, the recipe will work
automatically.

 status invalid

[Lameventanas (lameventanas)]

I don't know whether they would agree that this is a bug on their website, and I doubt they would cooperate to make a program designed to scrape their website work.

So I changed the code of the recipe like this:

...
from datetime import date
...
 dt = date.today()
 if dt.weekday() < 4:
  dt -= timedelta(days = 3 + dt.weekday)
    INDEX = 'https://www.economist.com/printedition/' + dt
...

It seems to work.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

The URL that leads to their current printedition going to the wrong edition is
definitely a bug, but in anycase i've already changed the recipe to
workaround it.

[kinming (kinming)]

thank you all; it is working fine now, thanks so much.