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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+__license__ = 'GPL v3'
+__copyright__ = '2012, watou'
+'''
+southernstar.ie
+'''
+import re
+import tempfile
+import os
+import codecs
+
+from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
+from calibre.ebooks.BeautifulSoup import Tag, NavigableString
+
+class TheSouthernStar(BasicNewsRecipe):
+
+ title = 'The Southern Star'
+ __author__ = 'watou'
+ description = 'West Cork\'s leading news and information provider since 1889'
+ NEWS_INDEX = 'http://www.southernstar.ie/news.php'
+ LOCAL_NOTES = 'http://www.southernstar.ie/localnotes.php'
+ SPORT_INDEX = 'http://www.southernstar.ie/sport.php'
+ CLASSIFIEDS = 'http://www.southernstar.ie/classifieds.php'
+ language = 'en_IE'
+ encoding = 'cp1252'
+
+ publication_type = 'newspaper'
+ masthead_url = 'http://www.southernstar.ie/images/logo.gif'
+ remove_tags_before = dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'article'})
+ remove_tags_after = dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'article'})
+ remove_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'style':'width:300px; position:relative'}),
+ dict(name='form'),
+ dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'endpanel'})]
+ no_stylesheets = True
+ tempfiles = []
+ pubdate = ''
+
+ preprocess_regexps = [(re.compile(r'', re.DOTALL), lambda m: '')]
+
+ def parse_index(self):
+ feeds = []
+ seen_titles = set([])
+
+ articles = self.fetch_ss_articles(self.NEWS_INDEX, seen_titles)
+ if articles:
+ feeds.append(('News', articles))
+
+ articles = self.fetch_ss_notes(self.LOCAL_NOTES)
+ if articles:
+ feeds.append(('Local Notes', articles))
+
+ articles = self.fetch_ss_articles(self.SPORT_INDEX, seen_titles)
+ if articles:
+ feeds.append(('Sport', articles))
+
+ articles = self.fetch_ss_notes(self.CLASSIFIEDS)
+ if articles:
+ feeds.append(('Classifieds', articles))
+
+ return feeds
+
+ def fetch_ss_articles(self, index, seen_titles):
+ articles = []
+ soup = self.index_to_soup(index)
+ ts = soup.find('div', {'class':'article'})
+ ds = self.tag_to_string(ts.find('strong'))
+ self.pubdate = ' ['+ds+']'
+ self.timefmt = ' [%s]'%ds
+
+ for post in ts.findAll('h1'):
+ a = post.find('a', href=True)
+ title = self.tag_to_string(a)
+ if title in seen_titles:
+ continue
+ seen_titles.add(title)
+ url = a['href']
+ if url.startswith('article'):
+ url = 'http://www.southernstar.ie/'+url
+ self.log('\tFound article:', title, 'at', url)
+ p = post.findNextSibling('p')
+ desc = None
+ if p is not None:
+ desc = str(p)
+ articles.append({'title':title, 'url':url, 'description':desc,
+ 'date':self.pubdate})
+
+ return articles
+
+ def fetch_ss_notes(self, page):
+ articles = []
+
+ soup = self.index_to_soup(page)
+ ts = soup.find('div', {'class':'content'})
+ for post in ts.findAll('h1'):
+ title = self.tag_to_string(post)
+ self.log('\tFound note:', title)
+ f = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix='.html',delete=False)
+ f.close()
+ f = codecs.open(f.name, 'w+b', self.encoding, 'replace')
+ url = "file://" + f.name
+ f.write(u''+title+'
')
+ f.write(str(post.findNextSibling('p')))
+ f.write(u'')
+ self.log('\tWrote note to', f.name)
+ f.close()
+ self.tempfiles.append(f)
+ articles.append({'title':title, 'url':url, 'date':self.pubdate})
+
+ return articles
+
+ def postprocess_html(self, soup, first):
+ for table in soup.findAll('table', align='right'):
+ img = table.find('img')
+ if img is not None:
+ img.extract()
+ caption = self.tag_to_string(table).strip()
+ div = Tag(soup, 'div')
+ div['style'] = 'text-align:center'
+ div.insert(0, img)
+ div.insert(1, Tag(soup, 'br'))
+ if caption:
+ div.insert(2, NavigableString(caption))
+ table.replaceWith(div)
+
+ return soup
+
+ def image_url_processor(self, baseurl, url):
+ return url.replace(' ','%20')
+
+ def cleanup(self):
+ self.log('cleaning up')
+ for f in self.tempfiles:
+ os.unlink(f.name)
+ self.tempfiles = []