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Twitch specializes in spreading the news on strange little films from around the world.

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			  __license__   = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2009-2011, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
'''
twitchfilm.net/news/
'''
from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe

class Twitchfilm(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title                 = 'Twitch Films'
    __author__            = 'Darko Miletic'
    description           = 'Twitch specializes in spreading the news on strange little films from around the world.'
    oldest_article        = 30
    max_articles_per_feed = 100
    no_stylesheets        = True
    use_embedded_content  = False
    encoding              = 'utf-8'
    publisher             = 'Twitch'
    masthead_url          = 'http://twitchfilm.com/img/logo.png'
    category              = 'twitch, twitchfilm, movie news, movie reviews, cult cinema, independent cinema, anime, foreign cinema, geek talk'
    language              = 'en'

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

    keep_only_tags=[dict(attrs={'class':'asset-header'})]
    remove_tags_after=dict(attrs={'class':'asset-body'})
    remove_tags = [  dict(name='div', attrs={'class':['social','categories']})
                   , dict(attrs={'id':'main-asset'})
                   , dict(name=['meta','link','iframe','embed','object'])
                  ]

    feeds = [(u'News', u'http://feeds.twitchfilm.net/TwitchEverything')]

    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