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The Moscow Times is a daily English-language newspaper featuring objective, reliable news on business, politics, sports and culture in Moscow, in Russia and the former Soviet Union (CIS).

Language: en

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			  __license__   = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2008-2010, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
'''
www.themoscowtimes.com
'''

from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe

class Moscowtimes(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title                 = 'The Moscow Times'
    __author__            = 'Darko Miletic and Sujata Raman'
    description           = 'The Moscow Times is a daily English-language newspaper featuring objective, reliable news on business, politics, sports and culture in Moscow, in Russia and the former Soviet Union (CIS).'
    category              = 'Russia, Moscow, Russian news, Moscow news, Russian newspaper, daily news, independent news, reliable news, USSR, Soviet Union, CIS, Russian politics, Russian business, Russian culture, Russian opinion, St Petersburg, Saint Petersburg'
    publisher             = 'The Moscow Times'
    language              = 'en'
    oldest_article        = 2
    max_articles_per_feed = 100
    no_stylesheets        = True
    use_embedded_content  = False
    remove_empty_feeds    = True
    encoding              = 'cp1251'
    masthead_url          = 'http://www.themoscowtimes.com/bitrix/templates/tmt/img/logo.gif'
    publication_type      = 'newspaper'

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

    extra_css      = '''
                        h1{ color:#0066B3; font-family: Georgia,serif ; font-size: large}
                        .article_date{ font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif ; color:#000000; font-size: x-small;}
                        .autors{color:#999999 ; font-weight: bold ; font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif ; font-size: x-small; }
                        .photoautors{ color:#999999 ; font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif ; font-size: x-small; }
                        .text{font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif ; font-size:75%; }
                        '''
    feeds          = [
                         (u'Top Stories'   , u'http://www.themoscowtimes.com/rss/top'     )
                        ,(u'Current Issue' , u'http://www.themoscowtimes.com/rss/issue'   )
                        ,(u'News'          , u'http://www.themoscowtimes.com/rss/news'    )
                        ,(u'Business'      , u'http://www.themoscowtimes.com/rss/business')
                        ,(u'Art and Ideas' , u'http://www.themoscowtimes.com/rss/art'     )
                        ,(u'Opinion'       , u'http://www.themoscowtimes.com/rss/opinion' )
                     ]

    keep_only_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'id':'content'})]
    remove_tags    = [
                       dict(name='div', attrs={'class':['photo_nav','phototext']})
                      ,dict(name=['iframe','meta','base','link','embed','object'])
                     ]

    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
        for lnk in soup.findAll('a'):
            if lnk.string is not None:
               ind = self.tag_to_string(lnk)
               lnk.replaceWith(ind)
        return soup

    def print_version(self, url):
        return url.replace('.themoscowtimes.com/','.themoscowtimes.com/print/')

    def get_cover_url(self):
        cover_url = None
        href =  'http://www.themoscowtimes.com/pdf/'
        soup = self.index_to_soup(href)
        div = soup.find('div',attrs={'class':'left'})
        if div:
            a = div.find('a')
            if a :
               cover_url = 'http://www.themoscowtimes.com' + a.img['src']
        return cover_url