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News from USA

Language: en

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			  __license__   = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2009-2010, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
'''
spectator.org
'''

from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe

class TheAmericanSpectator(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title                 = 'The American Spectator'
    __author__            = 'Darko Miletic'
    description           = 'News from USA'
    category              = 'news, politics, USA, world'
    publisher             = 'The American Spectator'
    oldest_article        = 7
    max_articles_per_feed = 100
    no_stylesheets        = True
    use_embedded_content  = False
    language              = 'en'
    INDEX                 = 'http://spectator.org'
    auto_cleanup = True
    encoding = 'utf-8'

    conversion_options = {
                             'comments'        : description
                            ,'tags'            : category
                            ,'language'        : language
                            ,'publisher'       : publisher
                         }

    feeds = [ (u'Articles', u'http://feeds.feedburner.com/amspecarticles')]

    def get_cover_url(self):
        cover_url = None
        soup = self.index_to_soup(self.INDEX)
        link_item = soup.find('a',attrs={'class':'cover'})
        if link_item:
            soup2 = self.index_to_soup(link_item['href'])
            link_item2 = soup2.find('div',attrs={'class':'post inner issues'})
            cover_url = self.INDEX + link_item2.img['src']
        return cover_url

    def print_version(self, url):
        return url + '/print'

    def get_article_url(self, article):
        return article.get('guid', None)