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-#!/usr/bin/env  python2
-
-__license__   = 'GPL v3'
-__copyright__ = '2009, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
-
-'''
-sptimes.ru
-'''
-
-from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
-
-class PetersburgTimes(BasicNewsRecipe):
-    title                 = 'The St. Petersburg Times'
-    __author__            = 'Darko Miletic'
-    description           = 'News from Russia'
-    publisher             = 'sptimes.ru'
-    category              = 'news, politics, Russia'
-    max_articles_per_feed = 100
-    no_stylesheets        = True
-    remove_javascript     = True
-    encoding              = 'cp1251'
-    use_embedded_content  = False
-    language = 'en'
-
-
-    html2lrf_options = [
-                          '--comment', description
-                        , '--category', category
-                        , '--publisher', publisher
-                        , '--ignore-tables'
-                        ]
-
-    html2epub_options = 'publisher="' + publisher + '"\ncomments="' + description + '"\ntags="' + category + '"\nlinearize_tables=True'
-
-    remove_tags = [dict(name=['object','link','embed'])]
-
-    feeds = [(u'Headlines', u'http://sptimes.ru/headlines.php' )]
-
-    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
-        return self.adeify_images(soup)
-
-    def get_article_url(self, article):
-        raw = article.get('guid',  None)
-        return raw
-
-    def print_version(self, url):
-        start_url, question, article_id = url.rpartition('/')
-        return u'http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=100&story_id=' + article_id
-