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-#!/usr/bin/env python2
-# vim:fileencoding=utf-8
-__license__ = 'GPL v3'
-__copyright__ = '2010-2011, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
-'''
-www.ft.com
-'''
-
-from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
-from urllib import unquote
-
-
-def classes(classes):
-    q = frozenset(classes.split(' '))
-    return dict(attrs={
-        'class': lambda x: x and frozenset(x.split()).intersection(q)})
-
-
-class FinancialTimes_rss(BasicNewsRecipe):
-    title = 'Financial Times'
-    __author__ = 'Darko Miletic'
-    description = "The Financial Times (FT) is one of the world's leading business news and information organisations, recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy."  # noqa
-    publisher = 'The Financial Times Ltd.'
-    category = 'news, finances, politics, World'
-    oldest_article = 2
-    language = 'en'
-    max_articles_per_feed = 250
-    no_stylesheets = True
-    use_embedded_content = False
-    needs_subscription = True
-    encoding = 'utf8'
-    ignore_duplicate_articles = {'title'}
-    remove_empty_feeds = True
-    publication_type = 'newspaper'
-    masthead_url = 'http://im.media.ft.com/m/img/masthead_main.jpg'
-    handle_gzip = True
-    LOGIN = 'https://www.ft.com/login?location=/'
-    INDEX = 'https://www.ft.com'
-    LOGOUT = 'https://myaccount.ft.com/logout'
-
-    def get_browser(self):
-        br = BasicNewsRecipe.get_browser(self)
-        br.open(self.INDEX)
-        if self.username is not None and self.password is not None:
-            br.open(self.LOGIN)
-            br.select_form(name='enter-email-form')
-            br['email'] = self.username
-            br.submit()
-            br.select_form(name='enter-password-form')
-            br['password'] = self.password
-            br.submit()
-        return br
-
-    def cleanup(self):
-        self.browser.open(self.LOGOUT)
-
-    keep_only_tags = [
-        classes('article__header--wrapper article__time-byline article__body n-content-image barrier-grid__heading')
-    ]
-
-    remove_tags = [
-        classes('n-content-related-box tour-tip')
-    ]
-
-    remove_attributes = ['width', 'height', 'lang', 'style']
-
-    feeds = [
-        (u'UK', u'https://www.ft.com/rss/home/uk'),
-        (u'US', u'https://www.ft.com/rss/home/us'),
-        (u'Asia', u'https://www.ft.com/rss/home/asia'),
-        (u'Middle East', u'https://www.ft.com/rss/home/middleeast')
-    ]
-
-    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
-        for img in soup.findAll('img', srcset=True):
-            src = img['srcset'].split(',')[0].strip()
-            src = unquote(src.rpartition('/')[2].partition('?')[0])
-            img['src'] = src
-        return soup