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-from datetime import date
-import re
-from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
-
-
-class VanityFair(BasicNewsRecipe):
-    title = u"Vanity Fair"
-    description = 'Vanity Fair Magazine (U.S.)'
-    language = 'en'
-    __author__ = 'Barty'
-    max_articles_per_feed = 100
-    no_stylesheets = False
-    auto_cleanup = False
-    timefmt = ' [%B %Y]'
-    oldest_article = 365
-
-    masthead_url = 'http://www.vanityfair.com/etc/designs/vanityfair/images/shell/print-logo.png'
-
-    INDEX = 'http://www.vanityfair.com'
-    CATEGORIES = [
-        # comment out categories you don't want
-        # (user friendly name, url suffix, max number of articles to load)
-        ('Hollywood', 'hollywood', 10),
-        ('Culture', 'culture', 10),
-        ('Business', 'business', 10),
-        ('Politics', 'politics', 10),
-        ('Society', 'society', 10),
-        ('Style', 'style', 10),
-        ('VF Daily', 'online/daily', 10),
-        ("James Wolcott's Blog", 'online/wolcott', 10),
-        ("The Oscars", 'online/oscars', 10),
-    ]
-    # set this to False if you don't want to put the first article
-    # that appears in each section to a "Featured" section
-    FEATURED_CAT = True
-
-    remove_tags = [
-        {'name': ['nav']},
-        {'class': re.compile(
-            r'_(header|rubric|share|subnav|leaderboard)|comments-count|ecom_placement')}
-    ]
-    remove_tags_after = [{'class': 'cn_blogpost'}, {'id': 'wrapper'}]
-
-    def parse_index(self):
-        self.cover_url = 'http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/toc/contents-%s/_jcr_content/par/cn_contentwell/par-main/cn_pagination_contai/cn_image.size.cover_vanityfair_300.jpg' % (  # noqa
-            date.today().strftime('%Y%m'))
-        feeds = []
-        seen_urls = set()
-        features = []
-
-        for category in self.CATEGORIES:
-
-            (cat_name, tag, max_articles) = category
-            self.log('Reading category:', cat_name)
-            articles = []
-
-            page = "%s/%s" % (self.INDEX, tag)
-            soup = self.index_to_soup(page)
-            headers = soup.findAll(attrs={'class': 'headline '})
-            add_featured = self.FEATURED_CAT
-
-            for header in headers:
-                self.log(self.tag_to_string(header))
-                atags = header.findAll('a')
-                # if there's more than one a tag, it's some kind of list, skip
-                if not atags or len(atags) > 1:
-                    continue
-                atag = atags[0]
-                url = atag['href']
-                if url.startswith('/'):
-                    url = self.INDEX + url
-                if url in seen_urls:
-                    continue
-                seen_urls.add(url)
-                title = self.tag_to_string(atag)
-                self.log('\tFound article:', title)
-                self.log('\t', url)
-                par = header.findParent('article') if tag.startswith(
-                    'online/') else header.findParent('section')
-                if par is not None:
-                    desc = par.find(attrs={'class': 'body '})
-                desc = self.tag_to_string(desc) if desc else ''
-                if add_featured:
-                    features.append(
-                        {'title': title, 'url': url, 'description': desc})
-                    add_featured = False
-                else:
-                    articles.append(
-                        {'title': title, 'url': url, 'description': desc})
-                    if len(articles) >= max_articles:
-                        break
-
-            if articles:
-                feeds.append((cat_name, articles))
-
-        if features:
-            feeds.insert(0, ('Featured', features))
-
-        return feeds
-
-    def print_version(self, url):
-        return url.replace('.html', '.print')