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Unconventional Wisdom Since 1865

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			  __license__   = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2008 - 2011, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
'''
thenation.com
'''
from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe

class Thenation(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title                 = 'The Nation'
    __author__            = 'Darko Miletic'
    description           = 'Unconventional Wisdom Since 1865'
    publisher             = 'The Nation'
    category              = 'news, politics, USA'
    oldest_article        = 120
    encoding              = 'utf-8'
    max_articles_per_feed = 100
    no_stylesheets        = True
    language              = 'en'
    use_embedded_content  = False
    delay                 = 1
    masthead_url          = 'http://www.thenation.com/sites/default/themes/thenation/images/logo-main.gif'
    login_url             = 'http://www.thenation.com/user?destination=%3Cfront%3E'
    publication_type      = 'magazine'
    needs_subscription    = 'optional'    
    exra_css              = """ 
                              body{font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;} 
                              .print-created{font-size: small;} 
                              .caption{display: block; font-size: x-small;}
                            """

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

    keep_only_tags    = [dict(attrs={'class':['print-title','print-created','print-content','print-links']})]
    remove_tags       = [dict(name=['link','iframe','base','meta','object','embed'])]
    remove_attributes = ['lang']

    feeds       = [(u"Articles", u'http://www.thenation.com/rss/articles')]

    def print_version(self, url):
        return url.replace('.thenation.com/','.thenation.com/print/')

    def get_browser(self):
        br = BasicNewsRecipe.get_browser()
        br.open('http://www.thenation.com/')
        if self.username is not None and self.password is not None:
            br.open(self.login_url)
            br.select_form(nr=1)
            br['name'] = self.username
            br['pass'] = self.password
            br.submit()
        return br

    def get_cover_url(self):
        soup = self.index_to_soup('http://www.thenation.com/issue/')
        item = soup.find('div',attrs={'id':'cover-wrapper'})
        if item:           
           return item.img['src']
        return None