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-#!/usr/bin/env python
-# vim:fileencoding=utf-8
-# License: GPLv3 Copyright: 2015, Kovid Goyal <kovid at kovidgoyal.net>
-
-import json
-from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
-from collections import defaultdict
-
-BASE = 'https://www.newsweek.com'
-
-
-def href_to_url(a, add_piano=False):
-    return BASE + a.get('href') + ('?piano_d=1' if add_piano else '')
-
-
-def class_sels(*args):
-    q = set(args)
-    return dict(attrs={'class': lambda x: x and set(x.split()).intersection(q)})
-
-
-class Newsweek(BasicNewsRecipe):
-
-    title = 'Newsweek'
-    __author__ = 'Kovid Goyal'
-    description = 'Weekly news and current affairs in the US'
-    language = 'en'
-    encoding = 'utf-8'
-    no_stylesheets = True
-    requires_version = (1, 40, 0)
-
-    keep_only_tags = [
-        dict(id='block-nw-magazine-article-header'),
-        class_sels('article-header', 'article-body')
-    ]
-    remove_tags = [
-        dict(name=['aside', 'meta', 'source']),
-        class_sels(
-            'block-openadstream', 'block-ibtmedia-social', 'issue-next',
-            'most-popular', 'ibt-media-stories', 'user-btn-group',
-            'trial-link', 'trc_related_container',
-            'block-ibtmedia-top-stories', 'videocontent', 'newsletter-signup',
-            'in-text-slideshows', 'content-correction', 'article-navigation'
-        ),
-        dict(id=['taboola-below-main-column', 'piano-root',
-                 'block-nw-magazine-magazine-more-from-issue']),
-    ]
-    remove_attributes = ['style']
-
-    def parse_index(self):
-        root = self.index_to_soup(
-            'https://www.newsweek.com/archive', as_tree=True)
-        li = root.xpath(
-            '//ul[contains(@class, "magazine-archive-items")]/li')[0]
-        a = li.xpath('descendant::a[@href]')[0]
-        url = href_to_url(a, add_piano=True)
-        self.timefmt = self.tag_to_string(a)
-        img = li.xpath('descendant::a[@href]//source[@type="image/jpeg"]/@srcset')[0]
-        self.cover_url = img.partition('?')[0]
-        self.log('Found cover url:', self.cover_url)
-        root = self.index_to_soup(url, as_tree=True)
-        features = []
-        for article in root.xpath('//div[@class="magazine-features"]//article'):
-            a = article.xpath('descendant::a[@class="article-link"]')[0]
-            title = self.tag_to_string(a)
-            url = href_to_url(a)
-            desc = ''
-            s = article.xpath('descendant::div[@class="summary"]')
-            if s:
-                desc = self.tag_to_string(s[0])
-            features.append({'title': title, 'url': href_to_url(a), 'description': desc})
-            self.log(title, url)
-
-        index = [('Features', features)]
-        sections = defaultdict(list)
-        for widget in ('editor-pick',):
-            self.parse_widget(widget, sections)
-        for k in sorted(sections):
-            index.append((k, sections[k]))
-        return index
-
-    def parse_widget(self, widget, sections):
-        raw = self.index_to_soup('https://d.newsweek.com/json/' + widget, raw=True)
-        data = json.loads(raw)['items']
-        for item in data:
-            title = item['title']
-            url = BASE + item['link']
-            self.log(title, url)
-            sections[item['label']].append(
-                {
-                    'title': title,
-                    'url': url,
-                    'description': item['description'],
-                })
-
-    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
-        # Parallax images in the articles are loaded as background images
-        # on <span> tags. Convert them to normal images.
-        for span in soup.findAll('span', attrs={'class': lambda x: x and 'parallax' in x.split()}):
-            s = span.find(style=True)
-            if s is not None:
-                url = s['style'].partition('(')[-1][:-1]
-                s['style'] = 'display: block'
-                s.name = 'img'
-                s['src'] = url
-        for img in soup.findAll('img', attrs={'data-src': True}):
-            img['src'] = img['data-src']
-        return soup