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Fox News Channel (FNC), often called Fox News, is a cable and satellite television news channel. Some critics have asserted that Fox News Channel promotes conservative political positions.

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

from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe

class FoxNews(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title                 = 'FOX News'
    __author__            = 'Darko Miletic'
    description           = 'Breaking News from FOX'
    publisher             = 'FOXNews.com'
    category              = 'news, breaking news, latest news, current news, world news, national news, USA'
    oldest_article        = 2
    max_articles_per_feed = 200
    no_stylesheets        = True
    encoding              = 'utf8'
    use_embedded_content  = False
    language              = 'en'
    publication_type      = 'newsportal'
    remove_empty_feeds    = True
    extra_css             = """
                                body{font-family: Arial,sans-serif }
                                .caption{font-size: x-small}
                                .author,.dateline{font-size: small}
                            """

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

    remove_attributes = ['xmlns','lang']

    remove_tags=[
                  dict(attrs={'class':['user-control','logo','ad-300x250','url-description']})
                 ,dict(name=['meta','base','link','iframe','object','embed'])
                ]

    keep_only_tags=[dict(attrs={'id':'article-print'})]
    remove_tags_after =dict(attrs={'class':'url-description'})

    feeds = [
              (u'Latest Headlines', u'http://feeds.foxnews.com/foxnews/latest'        )
             ,(u'National'        , u'http://feeds.foxnews.com/foxnews/national'      )
             ,(u'World'           , u'http://feeds.foxnews.com/foxnews/world'         )
             ,(u'Politics'        , u'http://feeds.foxnews.com/foxnews/politics'      )
             ,(u'Business'        , u'http://feeds.foxnews.com/foxnews/business'      )
             ,(u'SciTech'         , u'http://feeds.foxnews.com/foxnews/scitech'       )
             ,(u'Health'          , u'http://feeds.foxnews.com/foxnews/health'        )
             ,(u'Entertainment'   , u'http://feeds.foxnews.com/foxnews/entertainment' )
            ]

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

    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
        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