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Reuters Group Limited (informally Reuters) is a global news agency headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Language: en

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Calibre Recipe

			  import re

from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe


class Reuters(BasicNewsRecipe):

    title = 'Reuters'
    description = 'Global news'
    __author__ = 'Kovid Goyal and Sujata Raman'
    use_embedded_content   = False
    language = 'en'

    max_articles_per_feed = 10
    no_stylesheets = True
    remove_javascript = True

    extra_css      = '''
                        body{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans;}
                        h1{ font-size:larger ; font-weight:bold;  }
                        .byline{color:#006E97;font-size:x-small; font-weight:bold;}
                        .location{font-size:x-small; font-weight:bold;}
                        .timestamp{font-size:x-small; }
                     '''

    keep_only_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'column2 gridPanel grid8'})]

    remove_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'id':['recommendedArticles','relatedNews','relatedVideo','relatedFactboxes']}),
                   dict(name='p', attrs={'class':['relatedTopics']}),
                   dict(name='a', attrs={'id':['fullSizeLink']}),
                   dict(name='div', attrs={'class':['photoNav','relatedTopicButtons','articleComments','gridPanel grid8','footerHalf gridPanel grid1','gridPanel grid2','gridPanel grid3']}),
                   # Remove the Tweet, Share this, Email and Print links below article title too!
                   dict(name='div', attrs={'class':['columnRight']}),
                  ]

    preprocess_regexps = [ (re.compile(i[0], re.IGNORECASE | re.DOTALL), i[1]) for i in
    [
        ##(r'<HEAD>.*?</HEAD>' , lambda match : '<HEAD></HEAD>'),
        (r'<div id="apple-rss-sidebar-background">.*?<!-- start Entries -->', lambda match : ''),
        (r'<!-- end apple-rss-content-area -->.*?</body>', lambda match : '</body>'),
        (r'<script.*?>.*?</script>', lambda match : ''),
        (r'<body>.*?<div class="contentBand">', lambda match : '<body>'),
        (r'<h3>Share:</h3>.*?</body>', lambda match : '<!-- END:: Shared Module id=36615 --></body>'),
        (r'<div id="atools" class="articleTools">.*?<div class="linebreak">', lambda match : '<div class="linebreak">'),
    ]]


    feeds = [ ('Top Stories', 'http://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/topNews?format=xml'),
              ('US News', 'http://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/domesticNews?format=xml'),
              ('World News', 'http://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/worldNews?format=xml'),
              ('Politics News', 'http://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/politicsNews?format=xml'),
              ('Science News', 'http://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/scienceNews?format=xml'),
              ('Environment News', 'http://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/Environment?format=xml'),
              ('Technology News', 'http://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/technologyNews?format=xml'),
              ('Oddly Enough News', 'http://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/oddlyEnoughNews?format=xml')
            ]