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Politics, local and business news from Chicago
Language: en
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from __future__ import with_statement
__license__ = 'GPL 3'
__copyright__ = '2009, Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>'
__docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
import urllib, re
from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
class ChicagoTribune(BasicNewsRecipe):
title = 'Chicago Tribune'
__author__ = 'Kovid Goyal and Sujata Raman, a.peter'
description = 'Politics, local and business news from Chicago'
language = 'en'
version = 2
use_embedded_content = False
no_stylesheets = True
remove_javascript = True
recursions = 1
keep_only_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'class':["story","entry-asset asset hentry"]}),
dict(name='div', attrs={'id':["pagebody","story","maincontentcontainer"]}),
]
remove_tags_after = [{'class':['photo_article',]}]
match_regexps = [r'page=[0-9]+']
remove_tags = [{'id':["moduleArticleTools","content-bottom","rail","articleRelates module","toolSet","relatedrailcontent","div-wrapper","beta","atp-comments","footer",'gallery-subcontent','subFooter']},
{'class':["clearfix","relatedTitle","articleRelates module","asset-footer","tools","comments","featurePromo","featurePromo fp-topjobs brownBackground","clearfix fullSpan brownBackground","curvedContent",'nextgen-share-tools','outbrainTools', 'google-ad-story-bottom']},
dict(name='font',attrs={'id':["cr-other-headlines"]})]
extra_css = '''
h1{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight:bold;font-size:large;}
h2{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight:normal;font-size:small;}
.byline {font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:xx-small;}
.date {font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:xx-small;}
p{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;}
.copyright {font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:xx-small;text-align:center}
.story{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;}
.entry-asset asset hentry{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;}
.pagebody{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;}
.maincontentcontainer{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;}
.story-body{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;}
body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;}
'''
feeds = [
('Latest news', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/news/'),
('Local news', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/news/local/'),
('Nation/world', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/news/nationworld/'),
('Hot topics', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/hottopics/'),
('Most E-mailed stories', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/email/'),
('Opinion', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/opinion/'),
('Off Topic', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/offtopic/'),
#('Politics', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/politics/'),
#('Special Reports', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/special/'),
#('Religion News', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/religion/'),
('Business news', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/business/'),
('Jobs and Careers', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/career/'),
('Local scene', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagohomes/localscene/'),
('Phil Rosenthal', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/rosenthal/'),
#('Tech Buzz', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/techbuzz/'),
('Your Money', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/yourmoney/'),
('Jon Hilkevitch - Getting around', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/gettingaround/'),
('Jon Yates - What\'s your problem?', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/problem/'),
('Garisson Keillor', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/keillor/'),
('Marks Jarvis - On Money', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/marksjarvisonmoney/'),
('Sports', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/sports/'),
('Arts and Architecture', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/arts/'),
('Books', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/books/'),
#('Magazine', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/magazine/'),
('Movies', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/movies/'),
('Music', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/music/'),
('TV', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/tv/'),
('Hypertext', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/hypertext/'),
('iPhone Blog', 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/redeye/iphoneblog'),
('Julie\'s Health Club', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune_julieshealthclub/'),
]
def get_article_url(self, article):
ans = None
try:
s = article.summary
ans = urllib.unquote(
re.search(r'href=".+?bookmark.cfm.+?link=(.+?)"', s).group(1))
except:
pass
if ans is None:
ans = article.get('feedburner_origlink', article.get('guid', article.get('link')))
if ans is not None:
return ans.replace('?track=rss', '')
def skip_ad_pages(self, soup):
text = soup.find(text='click here to continue to article')
if text:
a = text.parent
url = a.get('href')
if url:
return self.index_to_soup(url, raw=True)
def postprocess_html(self, soup, first_fetch):
# Remove the navigation bar. It was kept until now to be able to follow
# the links to further pages. But now we don't need them anymore.
for nav in soup.findAll(attrs={'class':['toppaginate','article-nav clearfix']}):
nav.extract()
for t in soup.findAll(['table', 'tr', 'td']):
t.name = 'div'
for tag in soup.findAll('form', dict(attrs={'name':["comments_form"]})):
tag.extract()
for tag in soup.findAll('font', dict(attrs={'id':["cr-other-headlines"]})):
tag.extract()
return soup