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Weekly opinion magazine from the Netherlands

Language: nl

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			  from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
from calibre.ebooks.BeautifulSoup import Tag

class VrijNederlandRecipe(BasicNewsRecipe) :
    __license__   = 'GPL v3'
    __author__ = 'kwetal'
    language = 'nl'
    locale = 'nl'
    version = 1

    title = u'Vrij Nederland'
    publisher = u'Weekbladpers Tijdschriften'
    category = u'News, Opinion'
    description = u'Weekly opinion magazine from the Netherlands'

    oldest_article = 7
    max_articles_per_feed = 100
    use_embedded_content = False

    no_stylesheets = True
    remove_javascript = True
    # Does not seem to work
    #extra_css = '''li.calibre2 {padding-bottom: 40px}'''

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

    feeds = []
    feeds.append((u'Politiek', u'http://www.vn.nl/politiek.rss'))
    feeds.append((u'Buitenland', u'http://www.vn.nl/buitenland.rss'))
    feeds.append((u'Economie', u'http://www.vn.nl/economie.rss'))
    feeds.append((u'Justitie', u'http://www.vn.nl/justitie.rss'))
    feeds.append((u'Samenleving', u'http://www.vn.nl/samenleving.rss'))
    feeds.append((u'Crime', u'http://www.vn.nl/crime.rss'))
    feeds.append((u'Media', u'http://www.vn.nl/media.rss'))
    feeds.append((u'De Republiek der Letteren', u'http://www.vn.nl/republiek.rss'))
    feeds.append((u'Max van Weezel', u'http://www.vn.nl/vanweezel.rss'))
    feeds.append((u'Ko Colijn', u'http://www.vn.nl/colijn.rss'))
    feeds.append((u'Kees Kraaijeveld', u'http://www.vn.nl/kraaijeveld.rss'))
    feeds.append((u'Frank Kalshoven', u'http://www.vn.nl/kalshoven.rss'))
    feeds.append((u'Stephan Sanders', u'http://www.vn.nl/sanders.rss'))
    feeds.append((u'Micha Wertheim', u'http://www.vn.nl/wertheim.rss'))
    feeds.append((u'Arnon Grunberg', u'http://www.vn.nl/grunberg.rss'))
    feeds.append((u'Carel Peeters', u'http://www.vn.nl/carelpeeters.rss'))

    keep_only_tags = [dict(name = 'div', attrs = {'class' : 'cl-column column-one'})]

    remove_tags = []
    remove_tags.append(dict(name = 'div', attrs = {'class' : 'wpg-element guest-book-overview'}))
    remove_tags.append(dict(name = 'div', attrs = {'class' : 'wpg-element forum-message-form'}))
    remove_tags.append(dict(name = 'div', attrs = {'class' : 'mediaterms'}))
    remove_tags.append(dict(name = 'div', attrs = {'class': 'label-term'}))
    remove_tags.append(dict(name =  'div', attrs =  {'class': 'wpg-element Media-Collection-Element-Artikel-Lijst'}))
    remove_tags.append(dict(name = 'object'))
    remove_tags.append(dict(name = 'link'))
    remove_tags.append(dict(name = 'meta'))

    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
        # Just clean up the result a little
        meta = soup.find('div', attrs = {'class': 'meta'})
        if meta:
            link = meta.find('span', attrs = {'class': 'link'})
            if link:
                link.extract()
            for seperator in meta.findAll('span', attrs = {'class': 'seperator'}):
                seperator.extract()

        # Their header is full of 'if IE6/7/8' tags. Just get rid of it altogether
        theirHead = soup.head
        theirHead.extract()
        myHead = Tag(soup, 'head')
        soup.insert(0, myHead)

        return soup