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recipes/hbr_blogs.recipe

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ class HBR(BasicNewsRecipe):
     title = 'Harvard Business Review Blogs'
     description = 'To subscribe go to http://hbr.harvardbusiness.org'
     needs_subscription = True
-    __author__ = 'Kovid Goyal and Sujata Raman, enhanced by BrianG'
+    __author__ = 'Kovid Goyal, enhanced by BrianG'
     language = 'en'
     no_stylesheets = True
 

src/calibre/web/feeds/__init__.py

@@ -317,6 +317,9 @@ def feed_from_xml(raw_xml, title=None, oldest_article=7,
                   max_articles_per_feed=100,
                   get_article_url=lambda item: item.get('link', None),
                   log=default_log):
+    # Handle unclosed escaped entities. They trip up feedparser and HBR for one
+    # generates them
+    raw_xml = re.sub(r'(&#\d+)([^0-9;])', r'\1;\2', raw_xml)
     feed = parse(raw_xml)
     pfeed = Feed(get_article_url=get_article_url, log=log)
     pfeed.populate_from_feed(feed, title=title,

src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py

@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ from functools import partial
 from contextlib import nested, closing
 
 
-from calibre import browser, __appname__, iswindows, \
-                    strftime, preferred_encoding, as_unicode
+from calibre import (browser, __appname__, iswindows,
+                    strftime, preferred_encoding, as_unicode)
 from calibre.ebooks.BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup, NavigableString, CData, Tag
 from calibre.ebooks.metadata.opf2 import OPFCreator
 from calibre import entity_to_unicode