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The Art and Business of Making Games

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

from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe

class Gamasutra(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title                 = 'Gamasutra News'
    __author__            = 'Darko Miletic'
    description           = 'The Art and Business of Making Games'
    publisher             = 'Gamasutra'
    category              = 'news, games, IT'
    oldest_article        = 2
    max_articles_per_feed = 200
    no_stylesheets        = True
    encoding              = 'cp1252'
    use_embedded_content  = False
    language              = 'en'
    remove_empty_feeds    = True
    masthead_url          = 'http://www.gamasutra.com/images/gamasutra_logo.gif'
    extra_css             = ' body{font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif } img{margin-bottom: 0.4em} .newsTitle{font-size: xx-large; font-weight: bold} '

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

    remove_tags       = [dict(attrs={'class':['relatedNews','adBox']})]
    keep_only_tags    = [dict(attrs={'class':['newsTitle','newsAuth','newsDate','newsText']})]
    remove_attributes = ['width','height']

    feeds = [(u'News', u'http://feeds.feedburner.com/GamasutraNews')]

    def get_article_url(self, article):
        return article.get('guid',  None)

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