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The Athens News is an English-language newspaper published in Greece.

Language: en

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			  __license__   = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2011, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
'''
www.athensnews.gr
'''

from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe

class AthensNews(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title                 = 'Athens News'
    __author__            = 'Darko Miletic'
    description           = 'Greece in English since 1952'
    publisher             = 'NEP Publishing Company SA'
    category              = 'news, politics, Greece, Athens'
    oldest_article        = 1
    max_articles_per_feed = 200
    no_stylesheets        = True
    encoding              = 'utf8'
    use_embedded_content  = False
    language              = 'en_GR'
    remove_empty_feeds    = True
    publication_type      = 'newspaper'
    masthead_url          = 'http://www.athensnews.gr/sites/athensnews/themes/athensnewsv3/images/logo.jpg'
    extra_css             = """
                               body{font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif }
                               img{margin-bottom: 0.4em; display:block}
                               .big{font-size: xx-large; font-family: Georgia,serif}
                               .articlepubdate{font-size: small; color: gray; font-family: Georgia,serif}
                               .lezanta{font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; margin-bottom: 1em; display: block}
                            """

    conversion_options = {
                          'comment'          : description
                        , 'tags'             : category
                        , 'publisher'        : publisher
                        , 'language'         : language
                        , 'linearize_tables' : True
                        }

    remove_tags = [
                     dict(name=['meta','link'])
                  ]
    keep_only_tags=[
                      dict(name='span',attrs={'class':'big'})
                     ,dict(name='td', attrs={'class':['articlepubdate','text']})
                   ]
    remove_attributes=['lang']


    feeds = [
              (u'News'            , u'http://www.athensnews.gr/category/1/feed' )
             ,(u'Politics'        , u'http://www.athensnews.gr/category/8/feed' )
             ,(u'Business'        , u'http://www.athensnews.gr/category/2/feed' )
             ,(u'Economy'         , u'http://www.athensnews.gr/category/11/feed')
             ,(u'Community'       , u'http://www.athensnews.gr/category/5/feed' )
             ,(u'Arts'            , u'http://www.athensnews.gr/category/3/feed' )
             ,(u'Living in Athens', u'http://www.athensnews.gr/category/7/feed' )
             ,(u'Sports'          , u'http://www.athensnews.gr/category/4/feed' )
             ,(u'Travel'          , u'http://www.athensnews.gr/category/6/feed' )
             ,(u'Letters'         , u'http://www.athensnews.gr/category/44/feed')
             ,(u'Media'           , u'http://www.athensnews.gr/multimedia/feed' )
            ]

    def print_version(self, url):
        return url + '?action=print'

    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
        for item in soup.findAll(style=True):
            del item['style']
        return soup