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News from Kenia
Language: en
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__license__ = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2010, Hans Donner <hans.donner at pobox.com>'
'''
www.standardmedia.co.ke
'''
import os
from calibre import strftime, __appname__, __version__
from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
from calibre.constants import preferred_encoding
from calibre.utils.magick import Image
class StandardMediaKeRecipe(BasicNewsRecipe):
__author__ = 'Hans Donner'
title = u'The Standard'
description = 'News from Kenia'
language = 'en'
country = 'KE'
publication_type = 'newspaper'
publisher = 'standardmedia.co.ke'
category = 'news, politics, Kenia'
cover_img_url = 'http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/images/easLogoOther.gif'
masthead_url = cover_img_url
max_articles_per_feed = 200
oldest_article = 3
use_embedded_content = False
remove_empty_feeds = True
no_stylesheets = False
feeds = [(u'Headlines', u'http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/rss/headlines.php'),
(u'Business', u'http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/rss/business.php'),
(u'Politics', u'http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/rss/politics.php'),
(u'Editorial', u'http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/rss/editorial.php'),
(u'Columnists', u'http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/rss/columnists.php'),
(u'Sports', u'http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/rss/sports.php'),
(u'Entertainment', u'http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/rss/entertain.php')]
conversion_options = {
'comment' : description
, 'tags' : category
, 'publisher' : publisher
, 'language' : language
}
def print_version(self, url):
import re
p = re.compile('http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/.*InsidePage.php')
return p.sub('http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/print.php', url)
def preprocess_html(self, soup):
return self.adeify_images(soup)
def get_cover_img_url(self):
return getattr(self, 'cover_img_url', None)
def _download_cover_img(self):
# hack to reuse download_cover
old_cu = None
try:
old_cu = self.get_cover_ur()
except:
pass
new_cu = self.get_cover_img_url()
self.cover_url = new_cu
self._download_cover()
outfile = os.path.join(self.output_dir, 'cover_img.jpg')
self.prepare_masthead_image(self.cover_path, outfile)
self.cover_url = old_cu
self.cover_img_path = outfile
def download_cover_img(self):
try:
self._download_cover_img()
self.report_progress(1, _('Downloaded cover to %s') % self.cover_img_path)
except:
self.log.exception('Failed to download cover img')
self.cover_img_path = None
def prepare_cover_image(self, path_to_image, out_path):
img = Image()
img.open(path_to_image)
img.save(out_path)
def default_cover(self, cover_file):
'''
Create a generic cover for recipes that have a special cover img
'''
try:
try:
from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
except ImportError:
import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
font_path = P('fonts/liberation/LiberationSerif-Bold.ttf')
title = self.title if isinstance(self.title, unicode) else \
self.title.decode(preferred_encoding, 'replace')
date = strftime(self.timefmt)
app = '['+__appname__ +' '+__version__+']'
COVER_WIDTH, COVER_HEIGHT = 590, 750
img = Image.new('RGB', (COVER_WIDTH, COVER_HEIGHT), 'white')
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
# Title
font = ImageFont.truetype(font_path, 44)
width, height = draw.textsize(title, font=font)
left = max(int((COVER_WIDTH - width)/2.), 0)
top = 15
draw.text((left, top), title, fill=(0,0,0), font=font)
bottom = top + height
# Date
font = ImageFont.truetype(font_path, 32)
width, height = draw.textsize(date, font=font)
left = max(int((COVER_WIDTH - width)/2.), 0)
draw.text((left, bottom+15), date, fill=(0,0,0), font=font)
# Vanity
font = ImageFont.truetype(font_path, 28)
width, height = draw.textsize(app, font=font)
left = max(int((COVER_WIDTH - width)/2.), 0)
top = COVER_HEIGHT - height - 15
draw.text((left, top), app, fill=(0,0,0), font=font)
# Logo
logo_file = I('library.png')
self.download_cover_img()
if getattr(self, 'cover_img_path', None) is not None:
logo_file = self.cover_img_path
self.report_progress(1, _('using cover img from %s') % logo_file)
logo = Image.open(logo_file, 'r')
width, height = logo.size
left = max(int((COVER_WIDTH - width)/2.), 0)
top = max(int((COVER_HEIGHT - height)/2.), 0)
img.paste(logo, (left, top))
img = img.convert('RGB').convert('P', palette=Image.ADAPTIVE)
img.convert('RGB').save(cover_file, 'JPEG')
cover_file.flush()
except Exception, e:
self.log.exception('Failed to generate default cover ', e)
return False
return True