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			  import re, urllib
from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe

class TimesOfIndia(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title          = u'Times of India'
    language       = 'en_IN'
    __author__     = 'Kovid Goyal'
    oldest_article = 1 #days
    max_articles_per_feed = 25

    no_stylesheets = True
    remove_attributes = ['style']
    keep_only_tags = [
            {'class':re.compile(r'maintable12|prttabl')},
            {'id':['mod-article-header',
                'mod-a-body-after-first-para', 'mod-a-body-first-para']},
            ]
    remove_tags = [
            {'class':re.compile('tabsintbgshow|prvnxtbg')},
            {'id':['fbrecommend', 'relmaindiv', 'shretxt', 'fbrecos', 'twtdiv',
                'gpls', 'auim']},
            {'class':['twitter-share-button', 'cmtmn']},
            ]

    feeds          = [
('Top Stories',
 'http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/rssfeedstopstories.cms'),
('India',
 'http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/rssfeeds/-2128936835.cms'),
('World',
 'http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/rssfeeds/296589292.cms'),
('Mumbai',
 'http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/rssfeeds/-2128838597.cms'),
('Entertainment',
 'http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/rssfeeds/1081479906.cms'),
('Cricket',
 'http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/rssfeeds/4719161.cms'),
('Sunday TOI',
 'http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/rssfeeds/1945062111.cms'),
('Life and Style',
 'http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/rssfeeds/2886704.cms'),
('Business',
 'http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/rssfeeds/1898055.cms'),
('Mad Mad World',
 'http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/rssfeeds/2178430.cms'),
('Most Read',
 'http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/rssfeedmostread.cms')
]

    def get_article_url(self, article):
        try:
            s = article.summary
            return urllib.unquote(
                re.search(r'href=".+?bookmark.cfm.+?link=(.+?)"', s).group(1))
        except:
            pass
        link = article.get('link', None)
        if link and link.split('/')[-1]=="story01.htm":
            link=link.split('/')[-2]
            encoding = {'0B': '.', '0C': '/', '0A': '0', '0F': '=', '0G': '&',
                    '0D': '?', '0E': '-', '0N': '.com', '0L': 'http://'}
            for k, v in encoding.iteritems():
                link = link.replace(k, v)
            return link

    def print_version(self, url):
        return url + '?prtpage=1'

    def preprocess_html(self, soup, *args):
        byl = soup.find(attrs={'class':'byline'})
        if byl is not None:
            for l in byl.findAll('label'):
                l.extract()
        return soup