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from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
import re
from datetime import date, timedelta
class HBR(BasicNewsRecipe):
title = 'Harvard Business Review'
description = 'To subscribe go to http://hbr.harvardbusiness.org'
needs_subscription = True
__author__ = 'Kovid Goyal and Sujata Raman'
timefmt = ' [%B %Y]'
language = 'en'
no_stylesheets = True
recipe_disabled = ('hbr.org has started requiring the use of javascript'
' to log into their website. This is unsupported in calibre, so'
' this recipe has been disabled. If you would like to see '
' HBR supported in calibre, contact hbr.org and ask them'
' to provide a javascript free login method.')
LOGIN_URL = 'https://hbr.org/login?request_url=/'
LOGOUT_URL = 'https://hbr.org/logout?request_url=/'
INDEX = 'http://hbr.org/archive-toc/BR'
keep_only_tags = [dict(name='div', id='pageContainer')]
remove_tags = [dict(id=['mastheadContainer', 'magazineHeadline',
'articleToolbarTopRD', 'pageRightSubColumn', 'pageRightColumn',
'todayOnHBRListWidget', 'mostWidget', 'keepUpWithHBR',
'mailingListTout', 'partnerCenter', 'pageFooter',
'superNavHeadContainer', 'hbrDisqus',
'articleToolbarTop', 'articleToolbarBottom', 'articleToolbarRD']),
dict(name='iframe')]
extra_css = '''
a {font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-style:italic; color:#000000; }
.article{font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size: xx-small;}
h2{font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-weight:bold; font-size:large; }
h4{font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-weight:bold; font-size:small; }
#articleAuthors{font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-style:italic; color:#000000;font-size:x-small;}
#summaryText{font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-weight:bold; font-size:x-small;}
'''
def get_browser(self):
br = BasicNewsRecipe.get_browser(self)
self.logout_url = None
#'''
br.open(self.LOGIN_URL)
br.select_form(name='signin-form')
br['signin-form:username'] = self.username
br['signin-form:password'] = self.password
raw = br.submit().read()
if '>Sign out<' not in raw:
raise Exception('Failed to login, are you sure your username and password are correct?')
try:
link = br.find_link(text='Sign out')
if link:
self.logout_url = link.absolute_url
except:
self.logout_url = self.LOGOUT_URL
#'''
return br
def cleanup(self):
if self.logout_url is not None:
self.browser.open(self.logout_url)
def map_url(self, url):
if url.endswith('/ar/1'):
return url[:-1]+'pr'
def hbr_get_toc(self):
#return self.index_to_soup(open('/t/hbr.html').read())
today = date.today()
future = today + timedelta(days=30)
for x in [x.strftime('%y%m') for x in (future, today)]:
url = self.INDEX + x
soup = self.index_to_soup(url)
if not soup.find(text='Issue Not Found'):
return soup
raise Exception('Could not find current issue')
def hbr_parse_toc(self, soup):
feeds = []
current_section = None
articles = []
for x in soup.find(id='archiveToc').findAll(['h3', 'h4']):
if x.name == 'h3':
if current_section is not None and articles:
feeds.append((current_section, articles))
current_section = self.tag_to_string(x).capitalize()
articles = []
self.log('\tFound section:', current_section)
else:
a = x.find('a', href=True)
if a is None: continue
title = self.tag_to_string(a)
url = a['href']
if '/ar/' not in url:
continue
if url.startswith('/'):
url = 'http://hbr.org' + url
url = self.map_url(url)
p = x.parent.find('p')
desc = ''
if p is not None:
desc = self.tag_to_string(p)
self.log('\t\tFound article:', title)
self.log('\t\t\t', url)
self.log('\t\t\t', desc)
articles.append({'title':title, 'url':url, 'description':desc,
'date':''})
return feeds
def parse_index(self):
soup = self.hbr_get_toc()
#open('/t/hbr.html', 'wb').write(unicode(soup).encode('utf-8'))
feeds = self.hbr_parse_toc(soup)
return feeds
def get_cover_url(self):
cover_url = None
index = 'http://hbr.org/current'
soup = self.index_to_soup(index)
link_item = soup.find('img', alt=re.compile("Current Issue"), src=True)
if link_item:
cover_url = 'http://hbr.org' + link_item['src']
return cover_url