Possible update for Scientific American recipe

[sricochet]

The link for the login page to Scientific American has changed. The new link is the following:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/account/login/

instead of what's in the recipe:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/my-account/login/

this link redirects to the Scientific American home page.

Attached is an updated recipe that works well.

Edit: for some reason that is beyond my level of expertise, using a username and password in the builtin recipe leads to this error: mechanize._response.get_seek_wrapper_class.<locals >.httperror_seek_wrapper: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

Edit: this does not happen when the recipe is opened and edited using the "add or edit a custom news source" option and the username and password are manually entered into the br["emailAddress"] = self.username (replacing "emailAddress" with the username/email address and the line below "password" with the password, and then downloading in the edit custom recipe window ("Download this recipe").

Edit: Also the built-in recipe downloads just fine without a password or username.

[kovidgoyal]

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...2e26926a462f0d

[sricochet]

Thanks for the quick response, Kovid.

After getting annoyed that the optional username and password would result in a 404 error as described above, I downloaded the news recipe without a login, and compared the subscription pdf offered by the scientificamerican.com website and the fetched news feed from calibre without password.

while the headlines are different, and the order of the articles are different, all the articles appear to be in the password-free edition, word for word, as well as the images.

So to conclude, the password is indeed, as the recipe says, optional, and in fact there seems to be a block or something on the website, or just plain not functioning, with password access.

If you appreciate Scientific American, support it with a subscription. And maybe supplement the subscription with the news feed. But understand that the password login caused, for me at least, the recipe to fail.

I'm not sure if this was worth the effort.