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News from wikipedia

Language: en

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			  #!/usr/bin/env  python

__license__   = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2009, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
'''
en.wikinews.org
'''

from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe

class WikiNews(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title                 = 'Wikinews'
    __author__            = 'Darko Miletic'
    description           = 'News from wikipedia'
    category              = 'news, world'
    oldest_article        = 7
    max_articles_per_feed = 100
    publisher             = 'Wiki'
    no_stylesheets        = True
    use_embedded_content  = False
    encoding              = 'utf-8'
    remove_javascript     = True
    language = 'en'

    
    html2lrf_options = [
                          '--comment', description
                        , '--category', category
                        , '--publisher', publisher
                        ]
    
    html2epub_options = 'publisher="' + publisher + '"\ncomments="' + description + '"\ntags="' + category + '"' 

    keep_only_tags = [ 
                        dict(name='h1', attrs={'id':'firstHeading'}) 
                       ,dict(name='div', attrs={'id':'bodyContent'}) 
                     ]
    
    remove_tags = [
                    dict(name='link')
                   ,dict(name='div',attrs={'id':['printfooter','catlinks','footer']})
                   ,dict(name='div',attrs={'class':['thumb left','thumb right']})
                  ]

    remove_tags_after = dict(name='h2')
                  
    feeds = [(u'News', u'http://feeds.feedburner.com/WikinewsLatestNews')]

    def get_article_url(self, article):
        artl  = article.get('link',  None)
        rest, sep, article_id  = artl.rpartition('/')
        return 'http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/' + article_id
            
    def print_version(self, url):
        rest, sep, article_id  = url.rpartition('/')
        return 'http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=' + article_id + '&printable=yes'

    def get_cover_url(self):
        return 'http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Wikinews-logo-en.png'

    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
        mtag = '<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en"/><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">'
        soup.head.insert(0,mtag)
        btag = soup.find('div',attrs={'id':'bodyContent'})
        for item in btag.findAll('div'):
            item.extract()        
        for item in btag.findAll('h2'):
            item.extract()        
        for item in soup.findAll(style=True):
            del item['style']
        for item in soup.findAll(font=True):
            del item['font']
        return soup