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Print issue - Paid content. The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization.
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#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
__license__ = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2008, Kovid Goyal <kovid at kovidgoyal.net>'
'''
nytimes.com
'''
import re, string, time
from calibre import entity_to_unicode, strftime
from datetime import timedelta, date
from calibre.web.feeds.recipes import BasicNewsRecipe
from calibre.ebooks.BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup, Tag, BeautifulStoneSoup
class NYTimes(BasicNewsRecipe):
# set headlinesOnly to True for the headlines-only version. If True, webEdition is ignored.
headlinesOnly = False
# set webEdition to True for the Web edition of the newspaper. Set oldest_article to the
# number of days old an article can be for inclusion. If oldest_article = 0 all articles
# will be included. Note: oldest_article is ignored if webEdition = False
webEdition = False
oldest_article = 7
# replace paid Kindle Version: the name will be changed to "The New York Times" to cause
# previous paid versions of the new york times to best sent to the back issues folder on the kindle
replaceKindleVersion = False
# download higher resolution images than the small thumbnails typically included in the article
# the down side of having large beautiful images is the file size is much larger, on the order of 7MB per paper
useHighResImages = True
# includeSections: List of sections to include. If empty, all sections found will be included.
# Otherwise, only the sections named will be included. For example,
#
# includeSections = ['Politics','Sports']
#
# would cause only the Politics and Sports sections to be included.
includeSections = [] # by default, all sections included
# excludeSections: List of sections to exclude. If empty, all sections found will be included.
# Otherwise, the sections named will be excluded. For example,
#
# excludeSections = ['Politics','Sports']
#
# would cause the Politics and Sports sections to be excluded. This parameter can be used
# in conjuction with includeSections although in most cases using one or the other, but
# not both, is sufficient.
excludeSections = []
# one_picture_per_article specifies that calibre should only use the first image
# from an article (if one exists). If one_picture_per_article = True, the image
# will be moved to a location between the headline and the byline.
# If one_picture_per_article = False, all images from the article will be included
# and shown in their original location.
one_picture_per_article = False
# The maximum number of articles that will be downloaded
max_articles_per_feed = 100
# Whether to omit duplicates of articles (typically arsing when articles are indexed in
# more than one section). If True, only the first occurance will be downloaded.
filterDuplicates = True
# Sections to collect for the Web edition.
# Delete any you don't want, or use includeSections or excludeSections
web_sections = [(u'World',u'world'),
(u'U.S.',u'national'),
(u'Politics',u'politics'),
(u'New York',u'nyregion'),
(u'Business','business'),
(u'Technology',u'technology'),
(u'Sports',u'sports'),
(u'Science',u'science'),
(u'Health',u'health'),
(u'Opinion',u'opinion'),
(u'Arts',u'arts'),
(u'Books',u'books'),
(u'Movies',u'movies'),
(u'Music',u'arts/music'),
(u'Television',u'arts/television'),
(u'Style',u'style'),
(u'Dining & Wine',u'dining'),
(u'Fashion & Style',u'fashion'),
(u'Home & Garden',u'garden'),
(u'Travel',u'travel'),
('Education',u'education'),
('Multimedia',u'multimedia'),
(u'Obituaries',u'obituaries'),
(u'Sunday Magazine',u'magazine'),
(u'Week in Review',u'weekinreview')]
if headlinesOnly:
title='New York Times Headlines'
description = 'Headlines from the New York Times'
needs_subscription = True
elif webEdition:
title='New York Times (Web)'
description = 'New York Times on the Web'
needs_subscription = True
elif replaceKindleVersion:
title='The New York Times'
description = 'Today\'s New York Times'
needs_subscription = True
else:
title='New York Times'
description = 'Today\'s New York Times. Needs subscription from http://www.nytimes.com'
needs_subscription = True
month_list = ['january','february','march','april','may','june','july','august','september','october','november','december']
def decode_us_date(self,datestr):
udate = datestr.strip().lower().split()
try:
m = self.month_list.index(udate[0])+1
except:
return date.today()
d = int(udate[1])
y = int(udate[2])
try:
d = date(y,m,d)
except:
d = date.today
return d
earliest_date = date.today() - timedelta(days=oldest_article)
__author__ = 'GRiker/Kovid Goyal/Nick Redding/Ben Collier'
language = 'en'
requires_version = (0, 7, 5)
timefmt = ''
masthead_url = 'http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/misc/nytlogo379x64.gif'
cover_margins = (18,18,'grey99')
remove_tags_before = dict(id='article')
remove_tags_after = dict(id='article')
remove_tags = [dict(attrs={'class':[
'articleFooter',
'articleTools',
'columnGroup doubleRule',
'columnGroup singleRule',
'columnGroup last',
'columnGroup last',
'doubleRule',
'dottedLine',
'entry-meta',
'entry-response module',
#'icon enlargeThis', #removed to provide option for high res images
'leftNavTabs',
'metaFootnote',
'module box nav',
'nextArticleLink',
'nextArticleLink clearfix',
'post-tools',
'relatedSearchesModule',
'side_tool',
'singleAd',
'entry entry-utility', #added for DealBook
'entry-tags', #added for DealBook
'footer promos clearfix', #added for DealBook
'footer links clearfix', #added for DealBook
'tabsContainer', #added for other blog downloads
'column lastColumn', #added for other blog downloads
'pageHeaderWithLabel', #added for other gadgetwise downloads
'column two', #added for other blog downloads
'column two last', #added for other blog downloads
'column three', #added for other blog downloads
'column three last', #added for other blog downloads
'column four',#added for other blog downloads
'column four last',#added for other blog downloads
'column last', #added for other blog downloads
'timestamp published', #added for other blog downloads
'entry entry-related',
'subNavigation tabContent active', #caucus blog navigation
'columnGroup doubleRule',
'mediaOverlay slideshow',
'headlinesOnly multiline flush',
'wideThumb',
'video', #added 02-11-2011
'videoHeader',#added 02-11-2011
'articleInlineVideoHolder', #added 02-11-2011
'assetCompanionAd',
re.compile('^subNavigation'),
re.compile('^leaderboard'),
re.compile('^module'),
]}),
dict(id=[
'adxLeaderboard',
'adxSponLink',
'archive',
'articleExtras',
'articleInline',
'blog_sidebar',
'businessSearchBar',
'cCol',
'entertainmentSearchBar',
'footer',
'header',
'header_search',
'inlineBox',
'login',
'masthead',
'masthead-nav',
'memberTools',
'navigation',
'portfolioInline',
'readerReviews',
'readerReviewsCount',
'relatedArticles',
'relatedTopics',
'respond',
'side_search',
'side_index',
'side_tool',
'toolsRight',
'skybox', #added for DealBook
'TopAd', #added for DealBook
'related-content', #added for DealBook
]),
dict(name=['script', 'noscript', 'style','form','hr'])]
no_stylesheets = True
extra_css = '''
.articleHeadline { text-align: left; margin-top:0.5em; margin-bottom:0.25em; }
.credit { text-align: right; font-size: small; line-height:1em; margin-top:5px; margin-left:0; margin-right:0; margin-bottom: 0; }
.byline { text-align: left; font-size: small; line-height:1em; margin-top:10px; margin-left:0; margin-right:0; margin-bottom: 0; }
.dateline { text-align: left; font-size: small; line-height:1em;margin-top:5px; margin-left:0; margin-right:0; margin-bottom: 0; }
.kicker { font-size: small; line-height:1em;margin-top:5px; margin-left:0; margin-right:0; margin-bottom: 0; }
.timestamp { text-align: left; font-size: small; }
.caption { font-size: small; font-style:italic; line-height:1em; margin-top:5px; margin-left:0; margin-right:0; margin-bottom: 0; }
a:link {text-decoration: none; }
.articleBody { }
.authorId {text-align: left; }
.image {text-align: center;}
.source {text-align: left; }'''
articles = {}
key = None
ans = []
url_list = []
def filter_ans(self, ans) :
total_article_count = 0
idx = 0
idx_max = len(ans)-1
while idx <= idx_max:
if self.includeSections != []:
if ans[idx][0] not in self.includeSections:
print "SECTION NOT INCLUDED: ",ans[idx][0]
del ans[idx]
idx_max = idx_max-1
continue
if ans[idx][0] in self.excludeSections:
print "SECTION EXCLUDED: ",ans[idx][0]
del ans[idx]
idx_max = idx_max-1
continue
if self.verbose:
self.log("Section %s: %d articles" % (ans[idx][0], len(ans[idx][1])) )
for article in ans[idx][1]:
total_article_count += 1
if self.verbose:
self.log("\t%-40.40s... \t%-60.60s..." % (article['title'].encode('cp1252','replace'),
article['url'].encode('cp1252','replace')))
idx = idx+1
self.log( "Queued %d articles" % total_article_count )
return ans
def exclude_url(self,url):
if not url.startswith("http"):
return True
if not url.endswith(".html") and 'dealbook.nytimes.com' not in url and 'blogs.nytimes.com' not in url: #added for DealBook
return True
if 'nytimes.com' not in url:
return True
if 'podcast' in url:
return True
if '/video/' in url:
return True
if '/slideshow/' in url:
return True
if '/magazine/index' in url:
return True
if '/interactive/' in url:
return True
if '/reference/' in url:
return True
if '/premium/' in url:
return True
return False
def fixChars(self,string):
# Replace lsquo (\x91)
fixed = re.sub("\x91","‘",string)
# Replace rsquo (\x92)
fixed = re.sub("\x92","’",fixed)
# Replace ldquo (\x93)
fixed = re.sub("\x93","“",fixed)
# Replace rdquo (\x94)
fixed = re.sub("\x94","”",fixed)
# Replace ndash (\x96)
fixed = re.sub("\x96","–",fixed)
# Replace mdash (\x97)
fixed = re.sub("\x97","—",fixed)
return fixed
def get_browser(self):
br = BasicNewsRecipe.get_browser()
if self.username is not None and self.password is not None:
br.open('http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login')
br.form = br.forms().next()
br['userid'] = self.username
br['password'] = self.password
raw = br.submit().read()
if 'Please try again' in raw:
raise Exception('Your username and password are incorrect')
return br
def skip_ad_pages(self, soup):
# Skip ad pages served before actual article
skip_tag = soup.find(True, {'name':'skip'})
if skip_tag is not None:
self.log.warn("Found forwarding link: %s" % skip_tag.parent['href'])
url = 'http://www.nytimes.com' + re.sub(r'\?.*', '', skip_tag.parent['href'])
url += '?pagewanted=all'
self.log.warn("Skipping ad to article at '%s'" % url)
return self.index_to_soup(url, raw=True)
def get_cover_url(self):
cover = None
st = time.localtime()
year = str(st.tm_year)
month = "%.2d" % st.tm_mon
day = "%.2d" % st.tm_mday
cover = 'http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/' + year + '/' + month +'/' + day +'/nytfrontpage/scan.jpg'
br = BasicNewsRecipe.get_browser()
try:
br.open(cover)
except:
self.log("\nCover unavailable")
cover = None
return cover
def short_title(self):
return self.title
def index_to_soup(self, url_or_raw, raw=False):
'''
OVERRIDE of class method
deals with various page encodings between index and articles
'''
def get_the_soup(docEncoding, url_or_raw, raw=False) :
if re.match(r'\w+://', url_or_raw):
br = self.clone_browser(self.browser)
f = br.open_novisit(url_or_raw)
_raw = f.read()
f.close()
if not _raw:
raise RuntimeError('Could not fetch index from %s'%url_or_raw)
else:
_raw = url_or_raw
if raw:
return _raw
if not isinstance(_raw, unicode) and self.encoding:
_raw = _raw.decode(docEncoding, 'replace')
massage = list(BeautifulSoup.MARKUP_MASSAGE)
massage.append((re.compile(r'&(\S+?);'), lambda match: entity_to_unicode(match, encoding=self.encoding)))
return BeautifulSoup(_raw, markupMassage=massage)
# Entry point
soup = get_the_soup( self.encoding, url_or_raw )
contentType = soup.find(True,attrs={'http-equiv':'Content-Type'})
docEncoding = str(contentType)[str(contentType).find('charset=') + len('charset='):str(contentType).rfind('"')]
if docEncoding == '' :
docEncoding = self.encoding
if self.verbose > 2:
self.log( " document encoding: '%s'" % docEncoding)
if docEncoding != self.encoding :
soup = get_the_soup(docEncoding, url_or_raw)
return soup
def massageNCXText(self, description):
# Kindle TOC descriptions won't render certain characters
if description:
massaged = unicode(BeautifulStoneSoup(description, convertEntities=BeautifulStoneSoup.HTML_ENTITIES))
# Replace '&' with '&'
massaged = re.sub("&","&", massaged)
return self.fixChars(massaged)
else:
return description
def feed_title(self,div):
return ''.join(div.findAll(text=True, recursive=True)).strip()
def handle_article(self,div):
thumbnail = div.find('div','thumbnail')
if thumbnail:
thumbnail.extract()
a = div.find('a', href=True)
if not a:
return
url = re.sub(r'\?.*', '', a['href'])
if self.exclude_url(url):
return
url += '?pagewanted=all'
if self.filterDuplicates:
if url in self.url_list:
return
self.url_list.append(url)
title = self.tag_to_string(a, use_alt=True).strip()
description = ''
pubdate = strftime('%a, %d %b')
summary = div.find(True, attrs={'class':'summary'})
if summary:
description = self.tag_to_string(summary, use_alt=False)
author = ''
authorAttribution = div.find(True, attrs={'class':'byline'})
if authorAttribution:
author = self.tag_to_string(authorAttribution, use_alt=False)
else:
authorAttribution = div.find(True, attrs={'class':'byline'})
if authorAttribution:
author = self.tag_to_string(authorAttribution, use_alt=False)
feed = self.key if self.key is not None else 'Uncategorized'
if not self.articles.has_key(feed):
self.ans.append(feed)
self.articles[feed] = []
self.articles[feed].append(
dict(title=title, url=url, date=pubdate,
description=description, author=author,
content=''))
def parse_web_edition(self):
for (sec_title,index_url) in self.web_sections:
if self.includeSections != []:
if sec_title not in self.includeSections:
print "SECTION NOT INCLUDED: ",sec_title
continue
if sec_title in self.excludeSections:
print "SECTION EXCLUDED: ",sec_title
continue
print 'Index URL: '+'http://www.nytimes.com/pages/'+index_url+'/index.html'
soup = self.index_to_soup('http://www.nytimes.com/pages/'+index_url+'/index.html')
self.key = sec_title
# Find each article
for div in soup.findAll(True,
attrs={'class':['section-headline', 'story', 'story headline','sectionHeader','headlinesOnly multiline flush']}):
if div['class'] in ['story', 'story headline'] :
self.handle_article(div)
elif div['class'] == 'headlinesOnly multiline flush':
for lidiv in div.findAll('li'):
self.handle_article(lidiv)
self.ans = [(k, self.articles[k]) for k in self.ans if self.articles.has_key(k)]
return self.filter_ans(self.ans)
def parse_todays_index(self):
soup = self.index_to_soup('http://www.nytimes.com/pages/todayspaper/index.html')
skipping = False
# Find each article
for div in soup.findAll(True,
attrs={'class':['section-headline', 'story', 'story headline','sectionHeader','headlinesOnly multiline flush']}):
if div['class'] in ['section-headline','sectionHeader']:
self.key = string.capwords(self.feed_title(div))
self.key = self.key.replace('Op-ed','Op-Ed')
self.key = self.key.replace('U.s.','U.S.')
self.key = self.key.replace('N.y.','N.Y.')
skipping = False
if self.includeSections != []:
if self.key not in self.includeSections:
print "SECTION NOT INCLUDED: ",self.key
skipping = True
if self.key in self.excludeSections:
print "SECTION EXCLUDED: ",self.key
skipping = True
elif div['class'] in ['story', 'story headline'] :
if not skipping:
self.handle_article(div)
elif div['class'] == 'headlinesOnly multiline flush':
for lidiv in div.findAll('li'):
if not skipping:
self.handle_article(lidiv)
self.ans = [(k, self.articles[k]) for k in self.ans if self.articles.has_key(k)]
return self.filter_ans(self.ans)
def parse_headline_index(self):
soup = self.index_to_soup('http://www.nytimes.com/pages/todaysheadlines/')
# Fetch the content table
content_table = soup.find('table',{'id':'content'})
if content_table is None:
self.log("FATAL ERROR: CANNOT FIND CONTENT TABLE")
return None
# Within this table are <td id=".*Column.*"> entries, each containing one or more h6 tags which represent sections
for td_col in content_table.findAll('td', {'id' : re.compile('Column')}):
for div_sec in td_col.findAll('div',recursive=False):
for h6_sec_name in div_sec.findAll('h6',{'style' : re.compile('text-transform: *uppercase')}):
section_name = self.tag_to_string(h6_sec_name,use_alt=False)
section_name = re.sub(r'^ *$','',section_name)
if section_name == '':
continue
if self.includeSections != []:
if section_name not in self.includeSections:
print "SECTION NOT INCLUDED: ",section_name
continue
if section_name in self.excludeSections:
print "SECTION EXCLUDED: ",section_name
continue
section_name=string.capwords(section_name)
section_name = section_name.replace('Op-ed','Op-Ed')
section_name = section_name.replace('U.s.','U.S.')
section_name = section_name.replace('N.y.','N.Y.')
pubdate = strftime('%a, %d %b')
search_div = div_sec
for next_tag in h6_sec_name.findNextSiblings(True):
if next_tag.__class__.__name__ == 'Tag':
if next_tag.name == 'div':
search_div = next_tag
break
# Get the articles
for h3_item in search_div.findAll('h3'):
byline = h3_item.h6
if byline is not None:
author = self.tag_to_string(byline,usa_alt=False)
else:
author = ''
a = h3_item.find('a', href=True)
if not a:
continue
url = re.sub(r'\?.*', '', a['href'])
if self.exclude_url(url):
continue
url += '?pagewanted=all'
if self.filterDuplicates:
if url in self.url_list:
continue
self.url_list.append(url)
title = self.tag_to_string(a, use_alt=True).strip()
desc = h3_item.find('p')
if desc is not None:
description = self.tag_to_string(desc,use_alt=False)
else:
description = ''
if not self.articles.has_key(section_name):
self.ans.append(section_name)
self.articles[section_name] = []
self.articles[section_name].append(dict(title=title, url=url, date=pubdate, description=description, author=author, content=''))
self.ans = [(k, self.articles[k]) for k in self.ans if self.articles.has_key(k)]
return self.filter_ans(self.ans)
def parse_index(self):
if self.headlinesOnly:
return self.parse_headline_index()
elif self.webEdition:
return self.parse_web_edition()
else:
return self.parse_todays_index()
def strip_anchors(self,soup):
paras = soup.findAll(True)
for para in paras:
aTags = para.findAll('a')
for a in aTags:
if a.img is None:
a.replaceWith(a.renderContents().decode('cp1252','replace'))
return soup
def preprocess_html(self, soup):
if self.webEdition & (self.oldest_article>0):
date_tag = soup.find(True,attrs={'class': ['dateline','date']})
if date_tag:
date_str = self.tag_to_string(date_tag,use_alt=False)
date_str = date_str.replace('Published:','')
date_items = date_str.split(',')
try:
datestring = date_items[0]+' '+date_items[1]
article_date = self.decode_us_date(datestring)
except:
article_date = date.today()
if article_date < self.earliest_date:
self.log("Skipping article dated %s" % date_str)
return None
#all articles are from today, no need to print the date on every page
try:
if not self.webEdition:
date_tag = soup.find(True,attrs={'class': ['dateline','date']})
if date_tag:
date_tag.extract()
except:
self.log("Error removing the published date")
if self.useHighResImages:
try:
#open up all the "Enlarge this Image" pop-ups and download the full resolution jpegs
enlargeThisList = soup.findAll('div',{'class':'icon enlargeThis'})
if enlargeThisList:
for popupref in enlargeThisList:
popupreflink = popupref.find('a')
if popupreflink:
reflinkstring = str(popupreflink['href'])
refstart = reflinkstring.find("javascript:pop_me_up2('") + len("javascript:pop_me_up2('")
refend = reflinkstring.find(".html", refstart) + len(".html")
reflinkstring = reflinkstring[refstart:refend]
popuppage = self.browser.open(reflinkstring)
popuphtml = popuppage.read()
popuppage.close()
if popuphtml:
st = time.localtime()
year = str(st.tm_year)
month = "%.2d" % st.tm_mon
day = "%.2d" % st.tm_mday
imgstartpos = popuphtml.find('http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/' + year + '/' + month +'/' + day +'/') + len('http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/' + year + '/' + month +'/' + day +'/')
highResImageLink = 'http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/' + year + '/' + month +'/' + day +'/' + popuphtml[imgstartpos:popuphtml.find('.jpg',imgstartpos)+4]
popupSoup = BeautifulSoup(popuphtml)
highResTag = popupSoup.find('img', {'src':highResImageLink})
if highResTag:
try:
newWidth = highResTag['width']
newHeight = highResTag['height']
imageTag = popupref.parent.find("img")
except:
self.log("Error: finding width and height of img")
popupref.extract()
if imageTag:
try:
imageTag['src'] = highResImageLink
imageTag['width'] = newWidth
imageTag['height'] = newHeight
except:
self.log("Error setting the src width and height parameters")
except Exception:
self.log("Error pulling high resolution images")
try:
#remove "Related content" bar
runAroundsFound = soup.findAll('div',{'class':['articleInline runaroundLeft','articleInline doubleRule runaroundLeft','articleInline runaroundLeft firstArticleInline','articleInline runaroundLeft ','articleInline runaroundLeft lastArticleInline']})
if runAroundsFound:
for runAround in runAroundsFound:
#find all section headers
hlines = runAround.findAll(True ,{'class':['sectionHeader','sectionHeader flushBottom']})
if hlines:
for hline in hlines:
hline.extract()
#find all section headers
hlines = runAround.findAll('h6')
if hlines:
for hline in hlines:
hline.extract()
except:
self.log("Error removing related content bar")
try:
#in case pulling images failed, delete the enlarge this text
enlargeThisList = soup.findAll('div',{'class':'icon enlargeThis'})
if enlargeThisList:
for popupref in enlargeThisList:
popupref.extract()
except:
self.log("Error removing Enlarge this text")
return self.strip_anchors(soup)
def postprocess_html(self,soup, True):
try:
if self.one_picture_per_article:
# Remove all images after first
largeImg = soup.find(True, {'class':'articleSpanImage'})
inlineImgs = soup.findAll(True, {'class':'inlineImage module'})
if largeImg:
for inlineImg in inlineImgs:
inlineImg.extract()
else:
if inlineImgs:
firstImg = inlineImgs[0]
for inlineImg in inlineImgs[1:]:
inlineImg.extract()
# Move firstImg before article body
cgFirst = soup.find(True, {'class':re.compile('columnGroup *first')})
if cgFirst:
# Strip all sibling NavigableStrings: noise
navstrings = cgFirst.findAll(text=True, recursive=False)
[ns.extract() for ns in navstrings]
headline_found = False
tag = cgFirst.find(True)
insertLoc = 0
while True:
insertLoc += 1
if hasattr(tag,'class') and tag['class'] == 'articleHeadline':
headline_found = True
break
tag = tag.nextSibling
if not tag:
headline_found = False
break
if headline_found:
cgFirst.insert(insertLoc,firstImg)
else:
self.log(">>> No class:'columnGroup first' found <<<")
except:
self.log("ERROR: One picture per article in postprocess_html")
try:
# Change captions to italic
for caption in soup.findAll(True, {'class':'caption'}) :
if caption and len(caption) > 0:
cTag = Tag(soup, "p", [("class", "caption")])
c = self.fixChars(self.tag_to_string(caption,use_alt=False)).strip()
mp_off = c.find("More Photos")
if mp_off >= 0:
c = c[:mp_off]
cTag.insert(0, c)
caption.replaceWith(cTag)
except:
self.log("ERROR: Problem in change captions to italic")
try:
# Change <nyt_headline> to <h2>
h1 = soup.find('h1')
blogheadline = str(h1) #added for dealbook
if h1:
headline = h1.find("nyt_headline")
if headline:
tag = Tag(soup, "h2")
tag['class'] = "headline"
tag.insert(0, self.fixChars(headline.contents[0]))
h1.replaceWith(tag)
elif blogheadline.find('entry-title'):#added for dealbook
tag = Tag(soup, "h2")#added for dealbook
tag['class'] = "headline"#added for dealbook
tag.insert(0, self.fixChars(h1.contents[0]))#added for dealbook
h1.replaceWith(tag)#added for dealbook
else:
# Blog entry - replace headline, remove <hr> tags - BCC I think this is no longer functional 1-18-2011
headline = soup.find('title')
if headline:
tag = Tag(soup, "h2")
tag['class'] = "headline"
tag.insert(0, self.fixChars(headline.renderContents()))
soup.insert(0, tag)
hrs = soup.findAll('hr')
for hr in hrs:
hr.extract()
except:
self.log("ERROR: Problem in Change <nyt_headline> to <h2>")
try:
#if this is from a blog (dealbook, fix the byline format
bylineauthor = soup.find('address',attrs={'class':'byline author vcard'})
if bylineauthor:
tag = Tag(soup, "h6")
tag['class'] = "byline"
tag.insert(0, self.fixChars(bylineauthor.renderContents()))
bylineauthor.replaceWith(tag)
except:
self.log("ERROR: fixing byline author format")
try:
#if this is a blog (dealbook) fix the credit style for the pictures
blogcredit = soup.find('div',attrs={'class':'credit'})
if blogcredit:
tag = Tag(soup, "h6")
tag['class'] = "credit"
tag.insert(0, self.fixChars(blogcredit.renderContents()))
blogcredit.replaceWith(tag)
except:
self.log("ERROR: fixing credit format")
try:
# Change <h1> to <h3> - used in editorial blogs
masthead = soup.find("h1")
if masthead:
# Nuke the href
if masthead.a:
del(masthead.a['href'])
tag = Tag(soup, "h3")
tag.insert(0, self.fixChars(masthead.contents[0]))
masthead.replaceWith(tag)
except:
self.log("ERROR: Problem in Change <h1> to <h3> - used in editorial blogs")
try:
# Change <span class="bold"> to <b>
for subhead in soup.findAll(True, {'class':'bold'}) :
if subhead.contents:
bTag = Tag(soup, "b")
bTag.insert(0, subhead.contents[0])
subhead.replaceWith(bTag)
except:
self.log("ERROR: Problem in Change <h1> to <h3> - used in editorial blogs")
try:
#remove the <strong> update tag
blogupdated = soup.find('span', {'class':'update'})
if blogupdated:
blogupdated.replaceWith("")
except:
self.log("ERROR: Removing strong tag")
try:
divTag = soup.find('div',attrs={'id':'articleBody'})
if divTag:
divTag['class'] = divTag['id']
except:
self.log("ERROR: Problem in soup.find(div,attrs={id:articleBody})")
try:
# Add class="authorId" to <div> so we can format with CSS
divTag = soup.find('div',attrs={'id':'authorId'})
if divTag and divTag.contents[0]:
tag = Tag(soup, "p")
tag['class'] = "authorId"
tag.insert(0, self.fixChars(self.tag_to_string(divTag.contents[0],
use_alt=False)))
divTag.replaceWith(tag)
except:
self.log("ERROR: Problem in Add class=authorId to <div> so we can format with CSS")
return soup
def populate_article_metadata(self, article, soup, first):
if first and hasattr(self, 'add_toc_thumbnail'):
idxdiv = soup.find('div',attrs={'class':'articleSpanImage'})
if idxdiv is not None:
if idxdiv.img:
self.add_toc_thumbnail(article, idxdiv.img['src'])
else:
img = soup.find('img')
if img is not None:
self.add_toc_thumbnail(article, img['src'])
shortparagraph = ""
try:
if len(article.text_summary.strip()) == 0:
articlebodies = soup.findAll('div',attrs={'class':'articleBody'})
if not articlebodies: #added to account for blog formats
articlebodies = soup.findAll('div', attrs={'class':'entry-content'}) #added to account for blog formats
if articlebodies:
for articlebody in articlebodies:
if articlebody:
paras = articlebody.findAll('p')
for p in paras:
refparagraph = self.massageNCXText(self.tag_to_string(p,use_alt=False)).strip()
#account for blank paragraphs and short paragraphs by appending them to longer ones
if len(refparagraph) > 0:
if len(refparagraph) > 140: #approximately two lines of text
article.summary = article.text_summary = shortparagraph + refparagraph
return
else:
shortparagraph = refparagraph + " "
if shortparagraph.strip().find(" ") == -1 and not shortparagraph.strip().endswith(":"):
shortparagraph = shortparagraph + "- "
except:
self.log("Error creating article descriptions")
return