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The Los Angeles Times is a leading source of news on Southern California, entertainment, movies, television, music, politics, business, health, technology, travel, sports, environment, economics, autos, jobs, real estate and other topics affecting California
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__license__ = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2008-2011, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
'''
www.latimes.com
'''
from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
class LATimes(BasicNewsRecipe):
title = 'Los Angeles Times'
__author__ = 'Darko Miletic'
description = 'The Los Angeles Times is a leading source of news on Southern California, entertainment, movies, television, music, politics, business, health, technology, travel, sports, environment, economics, autos, jobs, real estate and other topics affecting California'
publisher = 'Tribune Company'
category = 'news, politics, USA, Los Angeles, 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 = 'newspaper'
masthead_url = 'http://www.latimes.com/images/logo.png'
cover_url = 'http://www.latimes.com/includes/sectionfronts/A1.pdf'
extra_css = """
body{font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif }
img{margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-top: 0.8em; display:block}
h2{font-size: 1.1em}
.deckhead{font-size: small; text-transform: uppercase}
.small{color: gray; font-size: small}
.date,.time,.copyright{font-size: x-small; color:gray; font-style:italic;}
"""
conversion_options = {
'comment' : description
, 'tags' : category
, 'publisher' : publisher
, 'language' : language
, 'linearize_tables' : 'Yes'
}
keep_only_tags = [
dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'story'})
,dict(attrs={'class':['entry-header','time','entry-content']})
]
remove_tags_after=dict(name='p', attrs={'class':'copyright'})
remove_tags = [
dict(name=['meta','link','iframe','object','embed'])
,dict(attrs={'class':['toolSet','articlerail','googleAd','entry-footer-left',
'entry-footer-right','entry-footer-social','google-ad-story-bottom',
'sphereTools', 'nextgen-share-tools']})
,dict(attrs={'id':['article-promo','googleads','moduleArticleToolsContainer','gallery-subcontent']})
]
remove_attributes=['lang','xmlns:fb','xmlns:og','border','xtags','i','article_body']
feeds = [
(u'Top News' , u'http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/news' )
,(u'Local News' , u'http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/news/local' )
,(u'National' , u'http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/news/nationworld/nation' )
,(u'National Politics' , u'http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/news/politics/' )
,(u'Business' , u'http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/business' )
,(u'Education' , u'http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/news/education' )
,(u'Environment' , u'http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/news/science/environment' )
,(u'Religion' , u'http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/features/religion' )
,(u'Science' , u'http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/news/science' )
,(u'Technology' , u'http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/technology' )
,(u'Africa' , u'http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/africa' )
,(u'Asia' , u'http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/asia' )
,(u'Europe' , u'http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/europe' )
,(u'Latin America' , u'http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/latinamerica' )
,(u'Middle East' , u'http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/middleeast' )
,(u'Arts&Culture' , u'http://feeds.feedburner.com/latimes/entertainment/news/arts' )
,(u'Entertainment News' , u'http://feeds.feedburner.com/latimes/entertainment/news/' )
,(u'Movie News' , u'http://feeds.feedburner.com/latimes/entertainment/news/movies/' )
,(u'Movie Reviews' , u'http://feeds.feedburner.com/movies/reviews/' )
,(u'Music News' , u'http://feeds.feedburner.com/latimes/entertainment/news/music/' )
,(u'Pop Album Reviews' , u'http://feeds.feedburner.com/latimes/pop-album-reviews' )
,(u'Restaurant Reviews' , u'http://feeds.feedburner.com/latimes/restaurant/reviews' )
,(u'Theatar and Dance' , u'http://feeds.feedburner.com/latimes/theaterdance' )
,(u'Autos' , u'http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/classified/automotive/highway1/')
,(u'Books' , u'http://feeds.latimes.com/features/books' )
,(u'Food' , u'http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/features/food/' )
,(u'Health' , u'http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/features/health/' )
,(u'Real Estate' , u'http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/classified/realestate/' )
,(u'Commentary' , u'http://feeds2.feedburner.com/latimes/news/opinion/commentary/' )
,(u'Sports' , u'http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/sports/' )
]
def get_article_url(self, article):
ans = BasicNewsRecipe.get_article_url(self, article).rpartition('?')[0]
try:
self.log('Looking for full story link in', ans)
soup = self.index_to_soup(ans)
x = soup.find(text="single page")
if x is not None:
a = x.parent
if a and a.has_key('href'):
ans = 'http://www.latimes.com'+a['href']
self.log('Found full story link', ans)
except:
pass
return ans
def preprocess_html(self, soup):
for item in soup.findAll(style=True):
del item['style']
for item in soup.findAll('img'):
if not item.has_key('alt'):
item['alt'] = 'image'
for item in soup.findAll('a'):
limg = item.find('img')
if item.string is not None:
str = item.string
item.replaceWith(str)
else:
if limg:
item.name ='div'
item.attrs =[]
else:
str = self.tag_to_string(item)
item.replaceWith(str)
return soup