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News from Atlanta and USA

Language: en

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			  #!/usr/bin/env  python
__license__   = 'GPL v3'
__author__    = 'Tony Stegall'
__copyright__ = '2010, Tony Stegall or Tonythebookworm on mobiread.com'
__version__   = '1.03'
__date__      = '27, September 2010'
__docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'



import datetime
from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe

class AdvancedUserRecipe1282101454(BasicNewsRecipe):
    now = datetime.datetime.now()
    title = 'The AJC'
    timefmt = ' [%a,%d %B %Y %I:%M %p]'
    __author__ = 'TonytheBookworm'
    language = 'en'
    description = 'News from Atlanta and USA'
    publisher = 'The Atlanta Journal'
    category = 'news, politics, USA'
    oldest_article = 1
    max_articles_per_feed = 100
    no_stylesheets = True

    masthead_url = 'http://gawand.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/ajc-logo.gif'
    extra_css = '''
                    h1.articleHeadline{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight:bold;font-size:large;}
                    h2.articleSubheadline{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight:normal;font-size:small;}

                    p.byline{text-align:right; font-size:small;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;}
                    p.organization{text-align:right; font-size:small;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;}


                    p{font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;}
		        '''


    keep_only_tags    = [
                        dict(name='div', attrs={'class':['cxArticleHeader']})
                       ,dict(attrs={'id':['cxArticleText']})
                        ]


    remove_tags = [
                     dict(name='div'  , attrs={'class':'cxArticleList'       })
                    ,dict(name='div'  , attrs={'class':'cxFeedTease' })
                    ,dict(name='div'  , attrs={'class':'cxElementEnlarge'  })
                    ,dict(name='div'  , attrs={'id':'cxArticleTools'  })
                  ]



    feeds          = [
                      ('Breaking News', 'http://www.ajc.com/genericList-rss.do?source=61499'),
                      # -------------------------------------------------------------------
                      # Here are the different area feeds. Choose which ever one you wish to
                      # read by simply removing the pound sign from it.  I currently have it
                      # set to only get the Cobb area
                      # --------------------------------------------------------------------
                      #('Atlanta & Fulton', 'http://www.ajc.com/section-rss.do?source=atlanta'),
                      #('Clayton', 'http://www.ajc.com/section-rss.do?source=clayton'),
                      #('DeKalb', 'http://www.ajc.com/section-rss.do?source=dekalb'),
                      #('Gwinnett', 'http://www.ajc.com/section-rss.do?source=gwinnett'),
                      #('North Fulton', 'http://www.ajc.com/section-rss.do?source=north-fulton'),
                      #('Metro', 'http://www.ajc.com/section-rss.do?source=news'),
                      #('Cherokee', 'http://www.ajc.com/section-rss.do?source=cherokee'),
                       ('Cobb', 'http://www.ajc.com/section-rss.do?source=cobb'),
                      #('Fayette', 'http://www.ajc.com/section-rss.do?source=fayette'),
                      #('Henry', 'http://www.ajc.com/section-rss.do?source=henry'),
                      #('Q & A', 'http://www.ajc.com/genericList-rss.do?source=77197'),
                       ('Opinions', 'http://www.ajc.com/section-rss.do?source=opinion'),
                       ('Ga Politics', 'http://www.ajc.com/section-rss.do?source=georgia-politics-elections'),
                      # ------------------------------------------------------------------------
                      # Here are the different sports feeds. I only follow the Falcons, and Highschool
                      # but again
                      # You can enable which ever team you like by removing the pound sign
                      # ------------------------------------------------------------------------
                      #('Sports News', 'http://www.ajc.com/genericList-rss.do?source=61510'),
                      #('Braves', 'http://www.ajc.com/genericList-rss.do?source=61457'),
                       ('Falcons', 'http://www.ajc.com/genericList-rss.do?source=61458'),
                      #('Hawks', 'http://www.ajc.com/genericList-rss.do?source=61522'),
                      #('Dawgs', 'http://www.ajc.com/genericList-rss.do?source=61492'),
                      #('Yellowjackets', 'http://www.ajc.com/genericList-rss.do?source=61523'),
                       ('Highschool', 'http://www.ajc.com/section-rss.do?source=high-school'),
                       ('Events', 'http://www.accessatlanta.com/section-rss.do?source=events'),
                       ('Music', 'http://www.accessatlanta.com/section-rss.do?source=music'),
                    ]



    def postprocess_html(self, soup, first):
      for credit_tag in soup.findAll('span', attrs={'class':['imageCredit rightFloat']}):
       credit_tag.extract()

      return soup

   #def print_version(self, url):
   #     return url.partition('?')[0] +'?printArticle=y'