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+#!/usr/bin/env  python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+__license__   = 'GPL v3'
+__copyright__ = '2010, Lars Jacob jacob.lars at gmail.com'
+__docformat__ = 'restructuredtext de'
+
+'''
+www.taz.de/digiabo
+'''
+import os, urllib2, zipfile, tempfile
+from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
+
+class TazDigiabo(BasicNewsRecipe):
+
+	title = u'Taz Digiabo'
+	description = u'Das EPUB DigiAbo der Taz'
+	language = 'de'
+	lang = 'de-DE'
+
+	__author__ = 'Lars Jacob'
+	needs_subscription = True
+
+	conversion_options = {
+		'no_default_epub_cover' : True
+	}
+
+	def build_index(self):
+		if self.username is not None and self.password is not None:
+			domain = "http://www.taz.de"
+
+			url = domain + "/epub/"
+
+			auth_handler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler()
+			auth_handler.add_password(realm='TAZ-ABO',
+									  uri=url,
+									  user=self.username,
+									  passwd=self.password)
+			opener = urllib2.build_opener(auth_handler)
+			urllib2.install_opener(opener)
+
+			try:
+				f = urllib2.urlopen(url)
+			except urllib2.HTTPError:
+				self.report_progress(0,_('Can\'t login to download issue'))
+				return
+
+			tmp = tempfile.TemporaryFile()
+			self.report_progress(0,_('downloading epub'))
+			tmp.write(f.read())
+
+			zfile = zipfile.ZipFile(tmp, 'r')
+			self.report_progress(0,_('extracting epub'))
+
+			zfile.extractall(self.output_dir)
+
+			tmp.close()
+			index = os.path.join(self.output_dir, 'content.opf')
+
+			self.report_progress(1,_('epub downloaded and extracted'))
+
+			return index