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-__license__   = 'GPL v3'
-__copyright__ = '2011, Starson17 <Starson17 at gmail.com>'
-'''
-www.wired.co.uk
-'''
-
-from calibre import strftime
-from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
-import re
-
-class Wired_UK(BasicNewsRecipe):
-    title                 = 'Wired Magazine - UK edition'
-    __author__            = 'Starson17'
-    __version__           = 'v1.30'
-    __date__              = '15 July 2011'
-    description           = 'Gaming news'
-    publisher             = 'Conde Nast Digital'
-    category              = 'news, games, IT, gadgets'
-    oldest_article        = 40
-    max_articles_per_feed = 100
-    no_stylesheets        = True
-    encoding              = 'utf-8'
-    use_embedded_content  = False
-    #masthead_url          = 'http://www.wired.co.uk/_/media/wired-logo_UK.gif'
-    language              = 'en_GB'
-    index                 = 'http://www.wired.co.uk'
-
-    conversion_options = {
-                          'comment'   : description
-                        , 'tags'      : category
-                        , 'publisher' : publisher
-                        , 'language'  : language
-                        }
-
-    keep_only_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'class':['layoutColumn1']})]
-    remove_tags = [dict(name='div',attrs={'class':['articleSidebar1','commentAddBox linkit','commentCountBox commentCountBoxBig']})]
-    remove_tags_after = dict(name='div',attrs={'class':['mainCopy entry-content','mainCopy']})
-    '''
-    remove_attributes = ['height','width']
-                   ,dict(name=['object','embed','iframe','link'])
-                   ,dict(attrs={'class':['opts','comment','stories']})
-                   ]
-    '''
-    def parse_index(self):
-        totalfeeds = []
-        soup   = self.index_to_soup(self.index)
-        recentcontent = soup.find('ul',attrs={'class':'linkList3'})
-        mfeed = []
-        if recentcontent:
-          for li in recentcontent.findAll('li'):
-            a = li.h2.a
-            url  = self.index + a['href'] + '?page=all'
-            title = self.tag_to_string(a)
-            description = ''
-            date  = strftime(self.timefmt)
-            mfeed.append({
-                  'title'      :title
-                 ,'date'       :date
-                 ,'url'        :url
-                 ,'description':description
-                })
-        totalfeeds.append(('Wired UK Magazine Latest News', mfeed))
-        popmagcontent = soup.findAll('div',attrs={'class':'sidebarLinkList'})
-        magcontent = popmagcontent[1]
-        mfeed2 = []
-        if magcontent:
-          a = magcontent.h3.a
-          if a:
-            url   = self.index + a['href'] + '?page=all'
-            title = self.tag_to_string(a)
-            description = ''
-            date  = strftime(self.timefmt)
-            mfeed2.append({
-                  'title'      :title
-                 ,'date'       :date
-                 ,'url'        :url
-                 ,'description':description
-                })
-          for li in magcontent.findAll('li'):
-            a = li.a
-            url   = self.index + a['href'] + '?page=all'
-            title = self.tag_to_string(a)
-            description = ''
-            date  = strftime(self.timefmt)
-            mfeed2.append({
-                  'title'      :title
-                 ,'date'       :date
-                 ,'url'        :url
-                 ,'description':description
-                })
-          totalfeeds.append(('Wired UK Magazine Features', mfeed2))
-
-        magsoup = self.index_to_soup(self.index + '/magazine')
-        startcontent = magsoup.find('h3',attrs={'class':'magSubSectionTitle titleStart'}).parent
-        mfeed3 = []
-        if startcontent:
-          for li in startcontent.findAll('li'):
-            a = li.a
-            url   = self.index + a['href'] + '?page=all'
-            title = self.tag_to_string(a)
-            description = ''
-            date  = strftime(self.timefmt)
-            mfeed3.append({
-                  'title'      :title
-                 ,'date'       :date
-                 ,'url'        :url
-                 ,'description':description
-                })
-          totalfeeds.append(('Wired UK Magazine More', mfeed3))
-
-        playcontent = magsoup.find('h3',attrs={'class':'magSubSectionTitle titlePlay'}).parent
-        mfeed4 = []
-        if playcontent:
-          for li in playcontent.findAll('li'):
-            a = li.a
-            url   = self.index + a['href'] + '?page=all'
-            title = self.tag_to_string(a)
-            description = ''
-            date  = strftime(self.timefmt)
-            mfeed4.append({
-                  'title'      :title
-                 ,'date'       :date
-                 ,'url'        :url
-                 ,'description':description
-                })
-          totalfeeds.append(('Wired UK Magazine Play', mfeed4))
-        return totalfeeds
-
-    def get_cover_url(self):
-        cover_url = ''
-        soup = self.index_to_soup(self.index + '/magazine/archive')
-        cover_item = soup.find('div', attrs={'class':'image linkme'})
-        if cover_item:
-           cover_url = cover_item.img['src']
-        return cover_url
-
-    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
-        for tag in soup.findAll(name='p'):
-            if tag.find(name='span', text=re.compile(r'This article was taken from.*', re.DOTALL|re.IGNORECASE)):
-                tag.extract()
-        return soup
-
-    extra_css = '''
-                    h1{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight:bold;font-size:large;}
-                    h2{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight:normal;font-size:small;}
-                    p{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;}
-                    body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;}
-		'''
-