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Print issue - Paid content. The Financial Times (FT) is one of the world's leading business news and information organisations, recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy.

Language: en

Requires Subscription: Yes, requires a Financial Times Print (US) subscription

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			  __license__   = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2010-2011, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
'''
www.ft.com
'''

import datetime
from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe

class FinancialTimes_rss(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title                 = 'Financial Times'
    __author__            = 'Darko Miletic'
    description           = "The Financial Times (FT) is one of the world's leading business news and information organisations, recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy."
    publisher             = 'The Financial Times Ltd.'
    category              = 'news, finances, politics, World'
    oldest_article        = 2
    language              = 'en'
    max_articles_per_feed = 250
    no_stylesheets        = True
    use_embedded_content  = False
    needs_subscription    = True
    encoding              = 'utf8'
    publication_type      = 'newspaper'
    masthead_url          = 'http://im.media.ft.com/m/img/masthead_main.jpg'
    LOGIN                 = 'https://registration.ft.com/registration/barrier/login'
    INDEX                 = 'http://www.ft.com'

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

    def get_browser(self):
        br = BasicNewsRecipe.get_browser()
        br.open(self.INDEX)
        if self.username is not None and self.password is not None:
            br.open(self.LOGIN)
            br.select_form(name='loginForm')
            br['username'] = self.username
            br['password'] = self.password
            br.submit()
        return br

    keep_only_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'class':['fullstory fullstoryHeader','fullstory fullstoryBody','ft-story-header','ft-story-body','index-detail']})]
    remove_tags = [
                      dict(name='div', attrs={'id':'floating-con'})
                     ,dict(name=['meta','iframe','base','object','embed','link'])
                     ,dict(attrs={'class':['storyTools','story-package','screen-copy','story-package separator','expandable-image']})
                  ]
    remove_attributes = ['width','height','lang']

    extra_css = """
                body{font-family: Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif}
                h2{font-size:large}
                .ft-story-header{font-size: x-small}
                .container{font-size:x-small;}
                h3{font-size:x-small;color:#003399;}
                .copyright{font-size: x-small}
                img{margin-top: 0.8em; display: block}
                .lastUpdated{font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small}
                .byline,.ft-story-body,.ft-story-header{font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif}
                """

    feeds = [
               (u'UK'         , u'http://www.ft.com/rss/home/uk'        )
              ,(u'US'         , u'http://www.ft.com/rss/home/us'        )
              ,(u'Asia'       , u'http://www.ft.com/rss/home/asia'      )
              ,(u'Middle East', u'http://www.ft.com/rss/home/middleeast')
            ]

    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
        items = ['promo-box','promo-title',
                 'promo-headline','promo-image',
                 'promo-intro','promo-link','subhead']
        for item in items:
            for it in soup.findAll(item):
                it.name = 'div'
                it.attrs = []
        for item in soup.findAll(style=True):
            del item['style']
        for item in soup.findAll('a'):
            limg = item.find('img')
            if item.string is not None:
               str = item.string
               item.replaceWith(str)
            else:
               if limg:
                  item.name = 'div'
                  item.attrs = []
               else:
                   str = self.tag_to_string(item)
                   item.replaceWith(str)
        for item in soup.findAll('img'):
            if not item.has_key('alt'):
               item['alt'] = 'image'
        return soup

    def get_cover_url(self):
        cdate = datetime.date.today()
        if cdate.isoweekday() == 7:
           cdate -= datetime.timedelta(days=1)
        return cdate.strftime('http://specials.ft.com/vtf_pdf/%d%m%y_FRONT1_USA.pdf')