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Toronto Canada Chinese Newspaper

Language: zh

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			  from calibre.web.feeds.recipes import BasicNewsRecipe

class AdvancedUserRecipe1278063072(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title          = u'Singtao Daily - Canada'
    oldest_article = 7
    max_articles_per_feed = 100
    __author__            = 'rty'
    description           = 'Toronto Canada Chinese Newspaper'
    publisher             = 'news.singtao.ca'
    category              = 'Chinese, News, Canada'
    remove_javascript = True
    use_embedded_content   = False
    no_stylesheets = True
    language = 'zh'
    conversion_options = {'linearize_tables':True}
    masthead_url = 'http://news.singtao.ca/i/site_2009/logo.jpg'
    extra_css = '''
        @font-face {font-family: "DroidFont", serif, sans-serif; src: url(res:///system/fonts/DroidSansFallback.ttf); }\

    body {text-align: justify; margin-right: 8pt; font-family: 'DroidFont', serif;}\

                    h1 {font-family: 'DroidFont', serif;}\

                    .articledescription {font-family: 'DroidFont', serif;}
            '''
    keep_only_tags = [
    dict(name='div', attrs={'id':['title','storybody']}),
    dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'content'})
    ]

    def parse_index(self):
            feeds = []
            for title, url in [
               ('Editorial',
                   'http://news.singtao.ca/toronto/editorial.html'),
               ('Toronto   \xe5\x9f\x8e\xe5\xb8\x82/\xe7\xa4\xbe\xe5\x8d\x80'.decode('utf-8'),
                   'http://news.singtao.ca/toronto/city.html'),
               ('Canada \xe5\x8a\xa0\xe5\x9c\x8b'.decode('utf-8'),
                   'http://news.singtao.ca/toronto/canada.html'),
               ('Entertainment',
                   'http://news.singtao.ca/toronto/entertainment.html'),
               ('World',
                   'http://news.singtao.ca/toronto/world.html'),
               ('Finance \xe5\x9c\x8b\xe9\x9a\x9b\xe8\xb2\xa1\xe7\xb6\x93'.decode('utf-8'),
                   'http://news.singtao.ca/toronto/finance.html'),
               ('Sports', 'http://news.singtao.ca/toronto/sports.html'),
                            ]:
               articles = self.parse_section(url)
               if articles:
                   feeds.append((title, articles))
            return feeds

    def parse_section(self, url):
            soup = self.index_to_soup(url)
            div = soup.find(attrs={'class': ['newslist paddingL10T10','newslist3 paddingL10T10']})
            #date = div.find(attrs={'class': 'underlineBLK'})
            current_articles = []
            for li in div.findAll('li'):
                    a = li.find('a', href = True)
                    if a is None:
                        continue
                    title = self.tag_to_string(a)
                    url = a.get('href', False)
                    if not url or not title:
                        continue
                    if url.startswith('/'):
                         url = 'http://news.singtao.ca'+url
          #          self.log('\    \    Found article:', title)
          #          self.log('\    \    \    ', url)
                    current_articles.append({'title': title, 'url': url, 'description':''})

            return current_articles

    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
        for item in soup.findAll(style=True):
           del item['style']
        for item in soup.findAll(width=True):
           del item['width']
        return soup