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Chinadaily.com.cn is the largest English portal in China, providing news, business information, BBS, learning materials.

Language: en

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			  __license__   = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2010, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
'''
www.chinadaily.com.cn
'''

from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe

class Pagina12(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title                 = 'China Daily'
    __author__            = 'Darko Miletic'
    description           = 'Chinadaily.com.cn is the largest English portal in China, providing news, business information, BBS, learning materials.'
    publisher             = 'China Daily Information Co.'
    category              = 'news, politics, China'
    oldest_article        = 2
    max_articles_per_feed = 200
    no_stylesheets        = True
    encoding              = 'utf8'
    use_embedded_content  = False
    language              = 'en_CN'
    remove_empty_feeds    = True
    publication_type      = 'newsportal'
    masthead_url          = 'http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/15421.files/chinadailylogo_e_20100301.jpg'
    extra_css             = ' body{font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif } '

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

    remove_tags = [dict(name=['object','embed','iframe','table'])]
    keep_only_tags = [dict(attrs={'id':['Title_e','Content']})]


    feeds = [
              (u'China'   , u'http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/rss/china_rss.xml'   )
             ,(u'Business', u'http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/rss/bizchina_rss.xml')
             ,(u'World'   , u'http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/rss/world_rss.xml'   )
             ,(u'Sports'  , u'http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/rss/sports_rss.xml'  )
             ,(u'Opinions', u'http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/rss/opinion_rss.xml' )
            ]

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