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Canadian news in French

Language: fr

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			  from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe

class Cyberpresse(BasicNewsRecipe):

    title          = u'Cyberpresse'
    __author__     = 'balok and Sujata Raman'
    description    = 'Canadian news in French'
    language = 'fr'

    oldest_article = 7
    max_articles_per_feed = 100
    no_stylesheets = True
    remove_javascript     = True
    html2lrf_options = ['--left-margin=0','--right-margin=0','--top-margin=0','--bottom-margin=0']
    encoding = 'utf-8'


    keep_only_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'article-page'}),
                      dict(name='div', attrs={'id':'articlePage'}),
                      ]

    extra_css = '''
                    .photodata{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;color: #999999; font-size: 90%; }
                    h1{font-family:Georgia,Times,serif ; font-size: large; }
                    .amorce{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif; font-weight:bold;}
                    .article-page{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;}
                    #articlePage{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;}
                    .auteur{font-family:Georgia,Times,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; color:#006699 ;}
                    .bodyText{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;}
                    .byLine{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;}
                    .entry{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;}
                    .minithumb-auteurs{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; }
                    a{color:#003399; font-weight:bold; }
                '''

    remove_tags = [
                        dict(name='div', attrs={'class':['centerbar','colspan','share-module']}),
                        dict(name='p', attrs={'class':['zoom']}),
                        dict(name='ul', attrs={'class':['stories']}),
                        dict(name='h4', attrs={'class':['general-cat']}),
                    ]

    feeds          = [(u'Manchettes', u'http://www.cyberpresse.ca/rss/225.xml'),
                      (u'Capitale nationale', u'http://www.cyberpresse.ca/rss/501.xml'),
                      (u'Opinions', u'http://www.cyberpresse.ca/rss/977.xml'),
                      (u'Insolite', u'http://www.cyberpresse.ca/rss/279.xml')
                      ]

    def postprocess_html(self, soup, first):

         for tag in soup.findAll(name=['i','strong']):
             tag.name = 'div'

         return soup