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News from United Arab Emirrates, persian gulf and rest of the world

Language: en

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

from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe

class GulfNews(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title                 = 'Gulf News'
    __author__            = 'Darko Miletic'
    description           = 'News from United Arab Emirrates, persian gulf and rest of the world'
    publisher             = 'Al Nisr Publishing LLC'
    category              = 'news, politics, UAE, world'
    oldest_article        = 2
    max_articles_per_feed = 200
    no_stylesheets        = True
    encoding              = 'utf8'
    use_embedded_content  = False
    language              = 'en'
    remove_empty_feeds    = True
    publication_type      = 'newsportal'
    masthead_url          = 'http://gulfnews.com/media/img/gulf_news_logo.jpg'
    extra_css             = """
                               body{font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif }
                               img{margin-bottom: 0.4em; display:block}
                               h1{font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif}
                               ol,ul{list-style: none}
                               .synopsis{font-size: small}
                               .details{font-size: x-small}
                               .image{font-size: xx-small}
                            """

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

    remove_tags = [
                     dict(name=['meta','link','object','embed'])
                     ,dict(attrs={'class':['quickLinks','ratings']})
                     ,dict(attrs={'id':'imageSelector'})
                  ]
    remove_attributes=['lang']
    keep_only_tags=[
                     dict(name='h1')
                     ,dict(attrs={'class':['synopsis','details','image','article']})
                   ]


    feeds = [
              (u'UAE News'      , u'http://gulfnews.com/cmlink/1.446094')
             ,(u'Business'      , u'http://gulfnews.com/cmlink/1.446098')
             ,(u'Entertainment' , u'http://gulfnews.com/cmlink/1.446095')
             ,(u'Sport'         , u'http://gulfnews.com/cmlink/1.446096')
             ,(u'Life'          , u'http://gulfnews.com/cmlink/1.446097')
            ]

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