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Political blog from the Netherlands

Language: nl

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			  from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
from calibre.ebooks.BeautifulSoup import Tag
import re

class JoopRecipe(BasicNewsRecipe):
    __license__  = 'GPL v3'
    __author__ = 'kwetal'
    language = 'nl'
    country = 'NL'
    version = 1

    title = u'Joop'
    publisher = u'Vara'
    category = u'News, Politics, Discussion'
    description = u'Political blog from the Netherlands'

    oldest_article = 7
    max_articles_per_feed = 100
    use_embedded_content = False

    no_stylesheets = True
    remove_javascript = True

    keep_only_tags = []
    keep_only_tags.append(dict(name = 'div', attrs = {'class': 'author_head clearfix photo'}))
    keep_only_tags.append(dict(name = 'h2', attrs = {'class': 'columnhead smallline'}))
    keep_only_tags.append(dict(name = 'div', attrs = {'class': re.compile('article.*')}))

    extra_css = '''
                body {font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, geneva, sans-serif;}
                img {margin-right: 0.4em;}
                h3 {font-size: medium; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;}
                h2 {font-size: xx-large; font-weight: bold}
                sub {color: #666666; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;}
                div.joop_byline {font-size: large}
                div.joop_byline_job {font-size: small; color: #696969;}
                div.joop_date {font-size: x-small; font-style: italic; margin-top: 0.6em}
                '''

    INDEX = 'http://www.joop.nl'

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

    def parse_index(self):
        sections = ['Politiek', 'Wereld', 'Economie', 'Groen', 'Media', 'Leven', 'Show', 'Opinies']
        soup = self.index_to_soup(self.INDEX)
        answer = []

        div = soup.find('div', attrs = {'id': 'footer'})
        for section in sections:
            articles = []
            h2 = div.find(lambda tag: tag.name == 'h2' and tag.renderContents() == section)
            if h2:
                ul = h2.findNextSibling('ul', 'linklist')
                if ul:
                    for li in ul.findAll('li'):
                        title = self.tag_to_string(li.a)
                        url = self.INDEX + li.a['href']
                        articles.append({'title': title, 'date': None, 'url': url, 'description': ''})

            answer.append((section, articles))

        return answer

    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
        div = soup.find('div', 'author_head clearfix photo')
        if div:
            h2 = soup.find('h2')
            if h2:
                h2.name = 'div'
                h2['class'] = 'joop_byline'
                span = h2.find('span')
                if span:
                    span.name = 'div'
                    span['class'] = 'joop_byline_job'
                div.replaceWith(h2)

        h2 = soup.find('h2', attrs = {'class': 'columnhead smallline'})
        if h2:
            txt = None
            span = h2.find('span', 'info')
            if span:
                txt = span.find(text = True)
            div = Tag(soup, 'div', attrs = [('class', 'joop_date')])
            div.append(txt)
            h2.replaceWith(div)

        return soup