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Gawker, Gossip from Manhattan and the Beltway to Hollywood and the Valley.

Language: en

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			  __license__   = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2010, NA'
'''
gawker.com
'''

from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe

class Gawker(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title                 = 'Gawker'
    __author__            = 'NA'
    description           = "Gawker, Gossip from Manhattan and the Beltway to Hollywood and the Valley."
    publisher             = 'gawker.com'
    category              = 'news, gossip'
    oldest_article        = 2
    max_articles_per_feed = 100
    no_stylesheets        = True
    encoding              = 'utf-8'
    use_embedded_content  = True
    language              = 'en'
    masthead_url          = 'http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/gawker.com/img/logo.png'

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

    remove_tags = [
            {'class': 'feedflare'},
    ]

    feeds = [(u'Articles', u'http://feeds.gawker.com/gawker/vip?format=xml')]

    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
        return self.adeify_images(soup)