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

class globaltimes(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title          = u'Global Times'
    __author__ = 'malfi'
    language = 'zh'
    oldest_article = 7
    max_articles_per_feed = 100
    no_stylesheets = True
    cover_url = 'http://enhimg2.huanqiu.com/images/logo.png'
    language = 'en'
    keep_only_tags = []
    keep_only_tags.append(dict(name = 'div', attrs = {'id': 'content'}))
    remove_tags = []
    remove_tags.append(dict(name = 'div', attrs = {'class': 'location'}))
    remove_tags.append(dict(name = 'div', attrs = {'class': 'contentpage'}))
    remove_tags.append(dict(name = 'li', attrs = {'id': 'pl'}))

    extra_css = '''
        h1{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight:bold;font-size:large;}
        h2{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight:normal;font-size:small;}
        p{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;}
        body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;}
        '''
    def parse_index(self):
        catnames = {}
        catnames["http://china.globaltimes.cn/chinanews/"] = "China Politics"
        catnames["http://china.globaltimes.cn/diplomacy/"] = "China Diplomacy"
        catnames["http://military.globaltimes.cn/china/"] = "China Military"
        catnames["http://business.globaltimes.cn/china-economy/"] = "China Economy"
        catnames["http://world.globaltimes.cn/asia-pacific/"] = "Asia Pacific"
        feeds = []

        for cat in catnames.keys():
            articles = []
            soup = self.index_to_soup(cat)
            for a in soup.findAll('a',attrs={'href' : re.compile(cat+"201[0-9]-[0-1][0-9]/[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9].html")}):
                url = a['href'].strip()
                myarticle=({'title':self.tag_to_string(a), 'url':url, 'description':'', 'date':''})
                self.log("found %s" % url)
                articles.append(myarticle)
                self.log("Adding URL %s\n" %url)
            if articles:
                feeds.append((catnames[cat], articles))
        return feeds