minor recipe updates

recipes/hindu.recipe

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ def absurl(url):
     return url
 
 
-local_edition = None
+local_edition = 'th_hyderabad'
 # Chennai is default edition, for other editions use 'th_hyderabad', 'th_bangalore', 'th_delhi', 'th_kolkata' etc
 
 
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ class TheHindu(BasicNewsRecipe):
     masthead_url = 'https://www.thehindu.com/theme/images/th-online/thehindu-logo.svg'
     remove_attributes = ['style', 'height', 'width']
     extra_css = '.caption{font-size:small; text-align:center;}'\
-        '.author{font-size:small;}'
+        '.author{font-size:small;}'\
+        '.subhead{font-weight:bold;}'
 
     ignore_duplicate_articles = {'url'}
 
@@ -36,27 +37,17 @@ class TheHindu(BasicNewsRecipe):
     ]
 
     def preprocess_html(self, soup):
+        for cap in soup.findAll('p', attrs={'class':'caption'}):
+            cap.name = 'span'
         for img in soup.findAll('img', attrs={'data-original':True}):
             img['src'] = img['data-original']
         return soup
 
-    def get_cover_url(self):
-        cover = 'https://img.kiosko.net/' + str(
-            date.today().year
-        ) + '/' + date.today().strftime('%m') + '/' + date.today(
-        ).strftime('%d') + '/in/hindu.750.jpg'
-        br = BasicNewsRecipe.get_browser(self)
-        try:
-            br.open(cover)
-        except:
-            index = 'https://en.kiosko.net/in/np/hindu.html'
-            soup = self.index_to_soup(index)
-            for image in soup.findAll('img', src=True):
-                if image['src'].endswith('750.jpg'):
-                    return image['src']
-            self.log("\nCover unavailable")
-            cover = None
-        return cover
+    def populate_article_metadata(self, article, soup, first):
+        if first and hasattr(self, 'add_toc_thumbnail'):
+            image = soup.find('img')
+            if image is not None:
+                self.add_toc_thumbnail(article, image['src'])
 
     def parse_index(self):
         if local_edition:
@@ -69,6 +60,9 @@ class TheHindu(BasicNewsRecipe):
         raw = self.index_to_soup(url, raw=True)
         soup = self.index_to_soup(raw)
         ans = self.hindu_parse_index(soup)
+        cover = soup.find(attrs={'class':'hindu-ad'})
+        if cover:
+            self.cover_url = cover.img['src']
         if not ans:
             raise ValueError(
                     'The Hindu Newspaper is not published Today.'

recipes/mit_technology_review.recipe

@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ class MitTechnologyReview(BasicNewsRecipe):
         feeds = OrderedDict()
 
         classNamePrefixes = [
-            "teaserItem__title", "teaserItem--aside__title"
+            "magazineHero__letter--", "teaserItem__title", "teaserItem--aside__title"
         ]
         for div in soup.findAll(
             attrs={
@@ -92,7 +92,8 @@ class MitTechnologyReview(BasicNewsRecipe):
             a = div.find('a', href=True)
             title = self.tag_to_string(a).strip()
             href = absurl(a['href'])
-
+            desc = ''
+            section_title = 'Letter from the editor'
             d = div.findParent(
                 attrs={
                     'class':
@@ -100,8 +101,9 @@ class MitTechnologyReview(BasicNewsRecipe):
                     startswith(('teaserItem__wrapper', 'teaserItem--aside__wrapper'))
                 }
             )
-            desc = self.tag_to_string(
-                d.find(
+            if d:
+
+                excerpt = d.find(
                         attrs={
                             'class':
                             lambda x: x and x.startswith(
@@ -109,14 +111,15 @@ class MitTechnologyReview(BasicNewsRecipe):
                             )
                         }
                     )
-            ).strip()
+                if excerpt:
+                    desc = self.tag_to_string(excerpt).strip()
 
                 sec = d.find(
                     attrs={
                         'class': lambda x: x and x.startswith('teaserItem__eyebrowText')
                     }
                 )
-
+                if sec:
                     section_title = self.tag_to_string(sec).replace('Categorized in ',
                                                             '').strip()