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-#!/usr/bin/env  python2
-__license__ = 'GPL v3'
-__copyright__ = '2008, Kovid Goyal kovid@kovidgoyal.net'
-__docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
-
-'''
-discovermagazine.com
-'''
-
-import re
-import mechanize
-import json
-import cookielib
-from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
-
-
-class DiscoverMagazine(BasicNewsRecipe):
-
-    title = u'Discover Magazine'
-    description = u'Science, Technology and the Future'
-    __author__ = 'Starson17'
-    language = 'en'
-
-    oldest_article = 33
-    max_articles_per_feed = 20
-    no_stylesheets = True
-    remove_javascript = True
-    use_embedded_content = False
-    encoding = 'utf-8'
-    extra_css = '.headline {font-size: x-large;} \n .fact {padding-top: 10pt}'
-
-    remove_tags = [
-        dict(name='div', attrs={
-             'id': ['searchModule', 'mainMenu', 'tool-box']}),
-        dict(name='div', attrs={'id': [
-             'footer', 'teaser', 'already-subscriber', 'teaser-suite', 'related-articles']}),
-        dict(name='div', attrs={'class': ['column']}),
-        dict(name='img', attrs={'src': 'http://discovermagazine.com/onebyone.gif'})]
-
-    remove_tags_after = [dict(name='div', attrs={'class': 'listingBar'})]
-
-    # Login stuff
-    needs_subscription = True
-
-    def get_browser(self):
-        br = BasicNewsRecipe.get_browser(self)
-        rq = mechanize.Request(
-            'https://secure.kalmbach.com/kserv/api/authentication/login', headers={
-                'Content-Type': 'application/json; charset=UTF-8',
-                'Referer': 'http://discovermagazine.com',
-                'Accept': 'application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01',
-                'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.5',
-                'Origin': 'http://discovermagazine.com',
-            }, data=json.dumps(
-                {'appId': '2', 'email': self.username, 'password': self.password}))
-        br.set_debug_http(True)
-        br.open(rq)
-        data = json.loads(br.open(rq).read())
-        if not data.get('success'):
-            raise ValueError('Failed to login')
-        session_id = data['sessionId']
-        if hasattr(br, 'set_cookie'):
-            br.set_cookie('KSERV', session_id, 'discovermagazine.com')
-        else:
-            c = cookielib.Cookie(
-                None, 'KSERV', session_id,
-                None, False,
-                'discovermagazine.com', True, False,
-                '/', True,
-                False, None, False, None, None, None)
-            br.cookiejar.set_cookie(c)
-        res = br.open('http://discovermagazine.com')
-        br.set_debug_http(False)
-        raw = res.read()
-        if '>Logout<' not in raw:
-            raise ValueError('Failed to login')
-        return br
-
-    # End login stuff
-
-    def append_page(self, soup, appendtag, position):
-        pager = soup.find('span', attrs={'class': 'next'})
-        if pager:
-            nexturl = pager.a['href']
-            soup2 = self.index_to_soup(nexturl)
-            texttag = soup2.find('div', attrs={'class': 'articlebody'})
-            newpos = len(texttag.contents)
-            self.append_page(soup2, texttag, newpos)
-            texttag.extract()
-            appendtag.insert(position, texttag)
-
-    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
-        mtag = '<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-US"/>\n<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>'
-        soup.head.insert(0, mtag)
-        self.append_page(soup, soup.body, 3)
-        pager = soup.find('div', attrs={'class': 'listingBar'})
-        if pager:
-            pager.extract()
-        return soup
-
-    def postprocess_html(self, soup, first_fetch):
-        for tag in soup.findAll(text=re.compile('^This article is a sample')):
-            tag.parent.extract()
-        for tag in soup.findAll(['table', 'tr', 'td']):
-            tag.name = 'div'
-        for tag in soup.findAll('div', attrs={'class': 'discreet advert'}):
-            tag.extract()
-        for tag in soup.findAll('hr', attrs={'size': '1'}):
-            tag.extract()
-        for tag in soup.findAll('br'):
-            tag.extract()
-        return soup
-
-    feeds = [
-        (u'Technologiy', u'http://feeds.feedburner.com/DiscoverTechnology'),
-        (u'Health & Medicine', u'http://feeds.feedburner.com/DiscoverHealthMedicine'),
-        (u'Mind Brain', u'http://feeds.feedburner.com/DiscoverMindBrain'),
-        (u'Space & Physics', u'http://feeds.feedburner.com/DiscoverSpace'),
-        (u'Living World', u'http://feeds.feedburner.com/DiscoverLivingWorld'),
-        (u'Environment', u'http://feeds.feedburner.com/DiscoverEnvironment'),
-        (u"20 Things you didn't know about...",
-         u'http://feeds.feedburner.com/20ThingsYouDidntKnowAbout'),
-        (u'Vital Signs', u'http://feeds.feedburner.com/discovermagazine/VitalSigns'),
-    ]