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Wired is a full-color monthly American magazine and on-line periodical, published since January 1993, that reports on how new and developing technology affects culture, the economy, and politics.
Language: en
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__license__ = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2010, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
'''
www.wired.com
'''
import re
from calibre import strftime
from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
class Wired(BasicNewsRecipe):
title = 'Wired Magazine'
__author__ = 'Darko Miletic'
description = 'Gaming news'
publisher = 'Conde Nast Digital'
category = 'news, games, IT, gadgets'
oldest_article = 32
delay = 1
max_articles_per_feed = 100
no_stylesheets = True
encoding = 'utf-8'
use_embedded_content = False
masthead_url = 'http://www.wired.com/images/home/wired_logo.gif'
language = 'en'
publication_type = 'magazine'
extra_css = ' body{font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif} .entryDescription li {display: inline; list-style-type: none} '
index = 'http://www.wired.com/magazine/'
preprocess_regexps = [(re.compile(r'<meta name="Title".*<title>', re.DOTALL|re.IGNORECASE),lambda match: '<title>')]
conversion_options = {
'comment' : description
, 'tags' : category
, 'publisher' : publisher
, 'language' : language
}
keep_only_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'post'})]
remove_tags_after = dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'tweetmeme_button'})
remove_tags = [
dict(name=['object','embed','iframe','link','meta','base'])
,dict(name='div', attrs={'class':['podcast_storyboard','tweetmeme_button']})
,dict(attrs={'id':'ff_bottom_nav'})
,dict(name='a',attrs={'href':'http://www.wired.com/app'})
]
remove_attributes = ['height','width','lang','border','clear']
def parse_index(self):
totalfeeds = []
soup = self.index_to_soup(self.index)
majorf = soup.find('div',attrs={'class':'index'})
if majorf:
pfarticles = []
firsta = majorf.find(attrs={'class':'spread-header'})
if firsta:
pfarticles.append({
'title' :self.tag_to_string(firsta.a)
,'date' :strftime(self.timefmt)
,'url' :'http://www.wired.com' + firsta.a['href']
,'description':''
})
for itt in majorf.findAll('li'):
itema = itt.find('a',href=True)
if itema:
pfarticles.append({
'title' :self.tag_to_string(itema)
,'date' :strftime(self.timefmt)
,'url' :'http://www.wired.com' + itema['href']
,'description':''
})
totalfeeds.append(('Cover', pfarticles))
features = soup.find('div',attrs={'id':'my-glider'})
if features:
farticles = []
for item in features.findAll('div',attrs={'class':'section'}):
divurl = item.find('div',attrs={'class':'feature-header'})
if divurl:
divdesc = item.find('div',attrs={'class':'feature-text'})
url = divurl.a['href']
if not divurl.a['href'].startswith('http://www.wired.com'):
url = 'http://www.wired.com' + divurl.a['href']
title = self.tag_to_string(divurl.a)
description = self.tag_to_string(divdesc)
date = strftime(self.timefmt)
farticles.append({
'title' :title
,'date' :date
,'url' :url
,'description':description
})
totalfeeds.append(('Featured Articles', farticles))
#department feeds
departments = ['rants','start','test','play','found']
dept = soup.find('div',attrs={'id':'magazine-departments'})
if dept:
for ditem in departments:
darticles = []
department = dept.find('div',attrs={'id':'department-'+ditem})
if department:
for item in department.findAll('div'):
description = ''
feed_link = item.find('a')
if feed_link and feed_link.has_key('href'):
url = feed_link['href']
title = self.tag_to_string(feed_link)
date = strftime(self.timefmt)
darticles.append({
'title' :title
,'date' :date
,'url' :url
,'description':description
})
totalfeeds.append((ditem.capitalize(), darticles))
return totalfeeds
def get_cover_url(self):
cover_url = None
soup = self.index_to_soup(self.index)
cover_item = soup.find('div',attrs={'class':'spread-image'})
if cover_item:
cover_url = 'http://www.wired.com' + cover_item.a.img['src']
return cover_url
def print_version(self, url):
return url.rstrip('/') + '/all/1'
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:
tstr = item.string
item.replaceWith(tstr)
else:
item.name='span'
for atrs in ['href','target','alt','title','name','id']:
if item.has_key(atrs):
del item[atrs]
for item in soup.findAll('img'):
if not item.has_key('alt'):
item['alt'] = 'image'
return soup