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			  __license__   = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2011, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
'''
techcrunch.com
'''

from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe

class TechCrunch(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title                 = 'TechCrunch'
    __author__            = 'Darko Miletic'
    description           = 'IT News'
    publisher             = 'AOL Inc.'
    category              = 'news, IT'
    oldest_article        = 2
    max_articles_per_feed = 200
    no_stylesheets        = True
    encoding              = 'utf8'
    use_embedded_content  = False
    language              = 'en'
    remove_empty_feeds    = True
    publication_type      = 'newsportal'
    masthead_url          = 'http://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/tctechcrunch2/images/site-logo.png'
    extra_css             = """
                               body{font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif }
                               img{margin-bottom: 0.4em; display:block}
                            """

    conversion_options = {
                          'comment'   : description
                        , 'tags'      : category
                        , 'publisher' : publisher
                        , 'language'  : language
                        }

    remove_tags = [dict(name=['meta','link'])]
    remove_attributes=['lang']
    keep_only_tags=[
                      dict(name='h1', attrs={'class':'headline'})
                     ,dict(attrs={'class':['author','post-time','body-copy']})
                   ]

    feeds = [(u'News', u'http://feeds.feedburner.com/TechCrunch/')]

    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
        for item in soup.findAll(style=True):
            del item['style']
        for item in soup.findAll('a'):
            limg = item.find('img')
            if item.string is not None:
               str = item.string
               item.replaceWith(str)
            else:
               if limg:
                  item.name = 'div'
                  item.attrs = []
               else:
                   str = self.tag_to_string(item)
                   item.replaceWith(str)
        for item in soup.findAll('img'):
            if not item.has_key('alt'):
               item['alt'] = 'image'            
        return soup