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News from NASA
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## Copyright (C) 2008 B.Scott Wxby [bswxby] &
## Copyright (C) 2007 David Chen SonyReader<at>DaveChen<dot>org
##
## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
## (at your option) any later version.
##
## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
## GNU General Public License for more details.
##
## Version 0.3-2008_2_28
## Based on WIRED.py by David Chen, 2007, and newsweek.py, bbc.py, nytimes.py by Kovid Goyal
##
## Usage:
## >web2lrf --user-profile nasa.py
## Comment out the RSS feeds you don't want in the last section below
##
## Output:
## NASA [YearMonthDate Time].lrf
##
'''
Custom User Profile to download RSS News Feeds and Articles from Wired.com
'''
import re
from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
class NASA(BasicNewsRecipe):
title = 'NASA'
timefmt = ' [%Y%b%d %H%M]'
language = 'en'
description = 'News from NASA'
__author__ = 'Scott Wxby & David Chen'
no_stylesheets = True
## Don't grab articles more than 30 days old
oldest_article = 30
preprocess_regexps = [(re.compile(i[0], re.IGNORECASE | re.DOTALL), i[1]) for i in
[
## Fix the encoding to UTF-8
(r'<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=(\S+)"', lambda match : match.group().replace(match.group(1), 'UTF-8')),
## Remove any banners/links/ads/cruft before the body of the article.
(r'<body.*?((<div id="article_body">)|(<div id="st-page-maincontent">)|(<div id="containermain">)|(<p class="ap-story-p">)|(<!-- img_nav -->))', lambda match: '<body><div>'),
## Remove any links/ads/comments/cruft from the end of the body of the article.
(r'((<!-- end article content -->)|(<div id="st-custom-afterpagecontent">)|(<p class="ap-story-p">©)|(<div class="entry-footer">)|(<div id="see_also">)|(<p>Via <a href=)|(<div id="ss_nav">)).*?</html>', lambda match : '</div></body></html>'),
## Correctly embed in-line images by removing the surrounding javascript that will be ignored in the conversion
(r'<a.*?onclick.*?>.*?(<img .*?>)', lambda match: match.group(1),),
## This removes header and footer information from each print version.
(r'<!-- Top Header starts -->.*?<!-- Body starts -->', lambda match : '<New Stuff>'),
(r'<hr align="center" width="200"><p align="center">.*?<!-- Press Release standard text ends -->', lambda match : '<New Stuff>'),
(r'<!-- Top Header starts -->.*?<!---->', lambda match : '<New Stuff>'),
## This removes the "download image" of various sizes from the Image of the day.
(r'<div id="download_image_box_print">.*?<div id="caption_region_print">', lambda match : '<New Stuff>'),
]
]
## NASA's print pages differ only by the ending "_prt.htm", so I've replaced them below.
def print_version(self, url):
return url.replace('.html', '_prt.htm')
## Comment out the feeds you don't want retrieved.
## Or add any new new RSS feed URL's here, sorted alphabetically when converted to LRF
## If you want one of these at the top, append a space in front of the name.
feeds = [
(' Breaking News', 'http://www.nasa.gov/rss/breaking_news.rss'),
('Image of the Day', 'http://www.nasa.gov/rss/image_of_the_day.rss'),
('Moon and Mars Exploration', 'http://www.nasa.gov/rss/moon_mars.rss'),
('Shuttle and Station News', 'http://www.nasa.gov/rss/shuttle_station.rss'),
('Solar System News', 'http://www.nasa.gov/rss/solar_system.rss'),
('Universe News', 'http://www.nasa.gov/rss/universe.rss'),
('Earth News', 'http://www.nasa.gov/rss/earth.rss'),
('Aeronautics News', 'http://www.nasa.gov/rss/aeronautics.rss'),
]