From 1fc5cd26c853df5838d9c4fa850945394b504512 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 12:19:24 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Fix #5708 (Updated recipe for Gizmodo)

---
 resources/recipes/gizmodo.recipe  | 10 ++++++----
 src/calibre/web/feeds/__init__.py |  6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/resources/recipes/gizmodo.recipe b/resources/recipes/gizmodo.recipe
index 6f6e6ae0cf..4233ef66b7 100644
--- a/resources/recipes/gizmodo.recipe
+++ b/resources/recipes/gizmodo.recipe
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ class Gizmodo(BasicNewsRecipe):
     max_articles_per_feed = 100
     no_stylesheets        = True
     encoding              = 'utf-8'
-    use_embedded_content  = True
+    use_embedded_content  = False
     language              = 'en'
     masthead_url          = 'http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/gizmodo.com/img/logo.png'
     extra_css             = ' body{font-family: "Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif} img{margin-bottom: 1em} '
@@ -29,9 +29,11 @@ class Gizmodo(BasicNewsRecipe):
                         , 'language'  : language
                         }
 
-    remove_attributes = ['width','height']
-    remove_tags       = [dict(name='div',attrs={'class':'feedflare'})]
-    remove_tags_after = dict(name='div',attrs={'class':'feedflare'})
+    remove_attributes  = ['width','height']
+    keep_only_tags     = [dict(attrs={'class':'content permalink'})]
+    remove_tags_before = dict(name='h1')
+    remove_tags        = [dict(attrs={'class':'contactinfo'})]
+    remove_tags_after  = dict(attrs={'class':'contactinfo'})
 
     feeds = [(u'Articles', u'http://feeds.gawker.com/gizmodo/full')]
 
diff --git a/src/calibre/web/feeds/__init__.py b/src/calibre/web/feeds/__init__.py
index 70b5557ad4..da7122c491 100644
--- a/src/calibre/web/feeds/__init__.py
+++ b/src/calibre/web/feeds/__init__.py
@@ -53,13 +53,17 @@ class Article(object):
 
     @dynamic_property
     def formatted_date(self):
+
         def fget(self):
             if self._formatted_date is None:
                 self._formatted_date = strftime(" [%a, %d %b %H:%M]",
                         t=self.localtime.timetuple())
             return self._formatted_date
+
         def fset(self, val):
-            self._formatted_date = val
+            if isinstance(val, unicode):
+                self._formatted_date = val
+
         return property(fget=fget, fset=fset)
 
     @dynamic_property