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News from the UK

Language: en

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			  __license__   = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2010, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
'''
www.getwokingham.co.uk
'''

from calibre.web.feeds.recipes import BasicNewsRecipe

class TheWokinghamTimes(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title                  = 'The Wokingham Times'
    __author__             = 'Darko Miletic'
    description            = 'News from UK'
    oldest_article         = 2
    max_articles_per_feed  = 100
    no_stylesheets         = True
    use_embedded_content   = False
    encoding               = 'utf8'
    publisher              = 'The Wokingham Times - S&B media'
    category               = 'news, UK, world'
    language               = 'en_GB'
    publication_type       = 'newsportal'
    extra_css              = """
                                body{ font-family: Arial,sans-serif }
                                img{display: block; margin-bottom: 0.4em}
                             """

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

    keep_only_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'id':'article-body'})]
    remove_tags    = [
                      dict(name='div'  , attrs={'class':['ad']})
                     ,dict(name=['meta','base','iframe','embed','object'])
                     ,dict(name='span' , attrs={'class':'caption small'})
                     ]
    remove_attributes = ['width','height','lang']

    feeds          = [
                       ('Home'         , 'http://www.getwokingham.co.uk/rss.xml'              )
                      ,('News'         , 'http://www.getwokingham.co.uk/news/rss.xml'         )
                      ,('Entertainment', 'http://www.getwokingham.co.uk/entertainment/rss.xml')
                      ,('Lifestyle'    , 'http://www.getwokingham.co.uk/lifestyle/rss.xml'    )
                    ]

    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
        for item in soup.findAll(style=True):
            del item['style']
        for item in soup.findAll('a'):
            if item.string is not None:
               str = item.string
               item.replaceWith(str)
            else:
               item.name = 'span'
               del item['href']
        return soup