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-#!/usr/bin/env  python2
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
-__license__ = 'GPL v3'
-__copyright__ = '30 October 2010, Jordi Balcells based on an earlier recipe by Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
-'''
-elperiodico.cat
-'''
-
-from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
-from calibre.ebooks.BeautifulSoup import Tag
-
-
-def new_tag(soup, name, attrs=()):
-    impl = getattr(soup, 'new_tag', None)
-    if impl is not None:
-        return impl(name, attrs=dict(attrs))
-    return Tag(soup, name, attrs=attrs or None)
-
-
-class ElPeriodico_cat(BasicNewsRecipe):
-    title = 'El Periodico de Catalunya'
-    __author__ = 'Jordi Balcells/Darko Miletic'
-    description = 'Noticies des de Catalunya'
-    publisher = 'elperiodico.cat'
-    category = 'news, politics, Spain, Catalunya'
-    oldest_article = 2
-    max_articles_per_feed = 100
-    no_stylesheets = True
-    use_embedded_content = False
-    delay = 1
-    encoding = 'cp1252'
-    language = 'ca'
-
-    html2lrf_options = [
-        '--comment', description, '--category', category, '--publisher', publisher
-    ]
-
-    html2epub_options = 'publisher="' + publisher + \
-        '"\ncomments="' + description + '"\ntags="' + category + '"'
-
-    feeds = [(u'Portada', u'http://www.elperiodico.cat/ca/rss/rss_portada.xml'),
-             (u'Internacional', u'http://www.elperiodico.cat/ca/rss/internacional/rss.xml'),
-             (u'Societat', u'http://www.elperiodico.cat/ca/rss/societat/rss.xml'),
-             (u'Ci\xe8ncia i tecnologia',
-              u'http://www.elperiodico.cat/ca/rss/ciencia-i-tecnologia/rss.xml'),
-             (u'Esports', u'http://www.elperiodico.cat/ca/rss/esports/rss.xml'),
-             (u'Gent', u'http://www.elperiodico.cat/ca/rss/gent/rss.xml'),
-             (u'Opini\xf3', u'http://www.elperiodico.cat/ca/rss/opinio/rss.xml'),
-             (u'Pol\xedtica', u'http://www.elperiodico.cat/ca/rss/politica/rss.xml'),
-             (u'Barcelona', u'http://www.elperiodico.cat/ca/rss/barcelona/rss.xml'),
-             (u'Economia', u'http://www.elperiodico.cat/ca/rss/economia/rss.xml'),
-             (u'Cultura i espectacles',
-              u'http://www.elperiodico.cat/ca/rss/cultura-i-espectacles/rss.xml'),
-             (u'Tele', u'http://www.elperiodico.cat/ca/rss/tele/rss.xml')]
-
-    keep_only_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'class': 'titularnoticia'}),
-                      dict(name='div', attrs={'class': 'noticia_completa'})]
-
-    remove_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'class': ['opcionb', 'opcionb last', 'columna_noticia']}),
-                   dict(name='span', attrs={'class': 'opcionesnoticia'})
-                   ]
-
-    def print_version(self, url):
-        return url.replace('/default.asp?', '/print.asp?')
-
-    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
-        mcharset = new_tag(soup, 'meta', [
-                       ("http-equiv", "Content-Type"), ("content", "text/html; charset=utf-8")])
-        soup.head.insert(0, mcharset)
-        for item in soup.findAll(style=True):
-            del item['style']
-        return soup