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Schedule Every morning

			  from __future__ import with_statement
__license__ = 'GPL 3'
__copyright__ = '2009, Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>'

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

class TheHindu(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title                 = u'The Hindu'
    language = 'en_IN'

    oldest_article        = 7
    __author__            = 'Kovid Goyal'
    max_articles_per_feed = 100
    no_stylesheets = True

    keep_only_tags = [dict(id='content')]
    remove_tags = [dict(attrs={'class':['article-links', 'breadcr']}),
            dict(id=['email-section', 'right-column', 'printfooter'])]

    extra_css = '.photo-caption { font-size: smaller }'

    def postprocess_html(self, soup, first_fetch):
        for t in soup.findAll(['table', 'tr', 'td','center']):
            t.name = 'div'
        return soup

    def parse_index(self):
        today = time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
        soup = self.index_to_soup(
                'http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-index/?date=' + today)
        div = soup.find(id='left-column')
        feeds = []
        current_section = None
        current_articles = []
        for x in div.findAll(['h3', 'div']):
            if current_section and x.get('class', '') == 'tpaper':
                a = x.find('a', href=True)
                if a is not None:
                    current_articles.append({'url':a['href']+'?css=print',
                        'title':self.tag_to_string(a), 'date': '',
                        'description':''})
            if x.name == 'h3':
                if current_section and current_articles:
                    feeds.append((current_section, current_articles))
                current_section = self.tag_to_string(x)
                current_articles = []
        return feeds