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			  # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe

class TheForce(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title          = u'The Force'
    language       = 'en'
    __author__     = 'Krittika Goyal'
    oldest_article = 1 #days
    max_articles_per_feed = 25
    encoding = 'cp1252'

    remove_stylesheets = True
    #remove_javascripts = True
    conversion_options = { 'linearize_tables' : True }
    remove_tags_after= dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'KonaBody'})
    keep_only_tags = dict(name='td', attrs={'background':'/images/span/tile_story_bgtile.gif'})
    #keep_only_tags = dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'KonaBody'})
    remove_tags = [
       dict(name='iframe'),
       #dict(name='div', attrs={'class':['pt-box-title', 'pt-box-content', 'blog-entry-footer', 'item-list', 'article-sub-meta']}),
       #dict(name='div', attrs={'id':['block-td_search_160', 'block-cam_search_160']}),
       #dict(name='table', attrs={'cellspacing':'0'}),
       #dict(name='ul', attrs={'class':'articleTools'}),
    ]

    feeds          = [
('The Force',
 'http://www.theforce.net/outnews/tfnrdf.xml'),
]

    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
        for tag in soup.findAll(name='i'):
            if 'Remember to join the Star Wars Insider Facebook' in self.tag_to_string(tag):
               for x in tag.findAllNext():
                   x.extract()
               tag.extract()
               break
        tag = soup.find(attrs={'class':'articleoption'})
        if tag is not None:
            tag = tag.findParent('table')
            if tag is not None:
                for x in tag.findAllNext():
                    x.extract()
            tag.extract()

        for img in soup.findAll('img', src=True):
            a = img.findParent('a', href=True)
            if a is None: continue
            url = a.get('href').split('?')[-1].partition('=')[-1]
            if url:
                img.extract()
                a.name = 'img'
                a['src'] = url
                del a['href']
                img['src'] = url
        return soup