diff --git a/recipes/cnetnews.recipe b/recipes/cnetnews.recipe
index d4439b0369..a3b68f973c 100644
--- a/recipes/cnetnews.recipe
+++ b/recipes/cnetnews.recipe
@@ -19,52 +19,71 @@ from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
 
 class CnetNews(BasicNewsRecipe):
     title                 = 'CNET News'
-    __author__            = 'Darko Miletic updated by DrMerry and further updated by Bonni Salles'
+    __author__            = 'Kovid Goyal'
     description           = 'Tech news and business reports by CNET News. Focused on information technology, core topics include computers, hardware, software, networking, and Internet media.'  # noqa
     publisher             = 'CNET'
     category              = 'news, IT, USA'
-    encoding              = 'utf-8'  # AGe 2014-03-28
-    language              = 'en'  # AGe 2014-03-28
+    encoding              = 'utf-8'
+    language              = 'en'
     oldest_article        = 7
     max_articles_per_feed = 100
     compress_news_images  = True
     ignore_duplicate_articles = {'title', 'url'}
     remove_empty_feeds    = True
     use_embedded_content  = False
+    no_stylesheets        = True
+    recursions = 1
 
-    cover_url = 'http://reviews.cnet.com/i/ff/wp/logo_cnet.gif'
+    remove_tags = [
+        dict(name='div', attrs={'id':'livefyreContainer'}),
+        dict(section=['tag', 'shortcodeRelatedLinks']),
+        dict(attrs={'class':['ad-inline-product-carousel-top', 'author-social', 'row controls', 'launchGallery', 'topWrap']}),
+        dict(name='a', attrs={'class':'subHead', 'data-component':'imageGalleryModal'}),
+        dict(attrs={'data-component':'sharebar'}),
+        dict(name=['link', 'meta']),
+    ]
 
-    conversion_options = {
-                          'comment'   : description
-                        , 'tags'      : category
-                        , 'publisher' : publisher
-                        , 'language'  : language
-                        }
-
-    remove_tags = [  # AGe 2014-03-28, new
-                    dict(name='nav', attrs={'id':'primaryNav'}),
-                    dict(name='nav', attrs={'id':'footerMap'}),
-                    dict(name='section', attrs={'class':'dontMissRight'}),
-                    dict(name='ul', attrs={'class':'sharebar inline-view'}),
-                    dict(name='div', attrs={'id':'livefyreContainer'}),
-                    dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'productList ReviewListing'}),
-                    dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'col-4'}),
-                    dict(name='div', attrs={'id':'legal'}),
-                  ]
-
-    remove_tags_before = dict(name='article', id="article-body")
+    keep_only_tags = [
+        dict(itemprop='headline'),
+        dict(id=["article-body", 'cnetReview']),
+        dict(attrs={'class':'deal-content'}),
+    ]
 
     feeds = [
-             # (u'All of CNET', u'http://www.cnet.com/rss/all/'),
-             (u'CNET News', u'http://www.cnet.com/rss/news/'),
-             (u'CNET Reviews', u'http://www.cnet.com/rss/reviews/'),
-             (u'CNET Video', u'http://www.cnet.com/rss/video/'),
-             (u'CNET How To', u'http://www.cnet.com/rss/how-to/'),
-             (u'CNET Deals', u'http://www.cnet.com/rss/deals/'),
-             (u'CNET iPhone Update', u'http://www.cnet.com/rss/iphone-update/'),
-             (u'CNET Crave', u'http://www.cnet.com/rss/crave/'),
-             (u'CNET Car Tech', u'http://www.cnet.com/rss/car-tech/'),
-             (u'CNET Android Update', u'http://www.cnet.com/rss/android-update/'),
-             (u'CNET Gaming', u'http://www.cnet.com/rss/gaming/'),
-             (u'CNET Cheapskate', u'http://www.cnet.com/rss/cheapskate/'),
-            ]
+        # (u'All of CNET', u'http://www.cnet.com/rss/all/'),
+        (u'CNET News', u'http://www.cnet.com/rss/news/'),
+        (u'CNET Reviews', u'http://www.cnet.com/rss/reviews/'),
+        (u'CNET How To', u'http://www.cnet.com/rss/how-to/'),
+        (u'CNET iPhone Update', u'http://www.cnet.com/rss/iphone-update/'),
+        (u'CNET Crave', u'http://www.cnet.com/rss/crave/'),
+        (u'CNET Car Tech', u'http://www.cnet.com/rss/car-tech/'),
+        (u'CNET Android Update', u'http://www.cnet.com/rss/android-update/'),
+        (u'CNET Gaming', u'http://www.cnet.com/rss/gaming/'),
+        (u'CNET Cheapskate', u'http://www.cnet.com/rss/cheapskate/'),
+    ]
+
+    def get_article_url(self, article):
+        ans = BasicNewsRecipe.get_article_url(self, article)
+        if ans and ('cnet.com/videos/' in ans or 'cnet.com/pictures/' in ans):
+            ans = None
+        return ans
+
+    def is_link_wanted(self, url, tag):
+        return tag.findParent(attrs={'class':'pageNav'}) is not None
+
+    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
+        for attr in 'data-original data-src'.split():
+            for img in soup.findAll('img', attrs={attr:True}):
+                img['src'] = img[attr].strip()
+        return soup
+
+    def postprocess_html(self, soup, first_fetch):
+        for div in soup.findAll(attrs={'class':'pagination'}):
+            div.extract()
+        for div in soup.findAll(attrs={'data-update-area':'pagination'}):
+            div.extract()
+        for h1 in soup.findAll(itemprop='headline'):
+            h1.extract()
+            if first_fetch:
+                soup.find('body').insert(1, h1)
+        return soup