Read ScienceNews on your iPad or Kindle in no time. Click download to load the free ebook on your reader.

Check out all the available public recipes or write your own with these quick start guides. ReadBeam is built on calibre, so everything in the docs and the fora applies here as well.

Download for free »

Science News is an award-winning weekly newsmagazine covering the most important research in all fields of science. Its 16 pages each week are packed with short, accurate articles that appeal to both general readers and scientists. Published since 1922, the magazine now reaches about 150,000 subscribers and more than 1 million readers. These are the latest News Items from Science News.

Language: en

Requires Subscription: No, it's available as free ebook

Schedule Every morning

			  #!/usr/bin/env  python

__license__   = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2008, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
'''
sciencenews.org
'''
from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe

class Sciencenews(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title                 = u'ScienceNews'
    __author__            = u'Darko Miletic and Sujata Raman'
    description           = u"Science News is an award-winning weekly newsmagazine covering the most important research in all fields of science. Its 16 pages each week are packed with short, accurate articles that appeal to both general readers and scientists. Published since 1922, the magazine now reaches about 150,000 subscribers and more than 1 million readers. These are the latest News Items from Science News."
    oldest_article        = 30
    language = 'en'

    max_articles_per_feed = 100
    no_stylesheets        = True
    use_embedded_content  = False
    timefmt               = ' [%A, %d %B, %Y]'

    extra_css = '''
                .content_description{font-family:georgia ;font-size:x-large; color:#646464 ; font-weight:bold;}
                .content_summary{font-family:georgia ;font-size:small ;color:#585858 ; font-weight:bold;}
                .content_authors{font-family:helvetica,arial ;font-size: xx-small ;color:#14487E ;}
                .content_edition{font-family:helvetica,arial ;font-size: xx-small ;}
                .exclusive{color:#FF0000 ;}
                .anonymous{color:#14487E ;}
                .content_content{font-family:helvetica,arial ;font-size: x-small ; color:#000000;}
                .description{color:#585858;font-family:helvetica,arial ;font-size: xx-small ;}
                .credit{color:#A6A6A6;font-family:helvetica,arial ;font-size: xx-small ;}
                '''

    keep_only_tags = [ dict(name='div', attrs={'id':'column_action'}) ]
    remove_tags_after = dict(name='ul', attrs={'id':'content_functions_bottom'})
    remove_tags = [
                     dict(name='ul', attrs={'id':'content_functions_bottom'})
                    ,dict(name='div', attrs={'id':['content_functions_top','breadcrumb_content']})
                    ,dict(name='img', attrs={'class':'icon'})
                    ,dict(name='div', attrs={'class': 'embiggen'})
                  ]

    feeds       = [(u"Science News / News Items", u'http://sciencenews.org/index.php/feed/type/news/name/news.rss/view/feed/name/all.rss')]

    def get_cover_url(self):
        cover_url = None
        index = 'http://www.sciencenews.org/view/home'
        soup = self.index_to_soup(index)
        link_item = soup.find(name = 'img',alt = "issue")
        print link_item
        if link_item:
           cover_url = 'http://www.sciencenews.org' + link_item['src'] + '.jpg'

        return cover_url

    def preprocess_html(self, soup):

            for tag in soup.findAll(name=['span']):
                tag.name = 'div'

            return soup