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-#!/usr/bin/env python
-
-__license__ = 'GPL v3'
-'''
-Hacker News (with comments)
-'''
-from calibre.ptempfile import PersistentTemporaryFile
-from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
-
-try:
- from urllib.parse import urlparse
-except ImportError:
- from urlparse import urlparse
-import re
-
-
-class HNWithComments(BasicNewsRecipe):
- title = 'HN With actual comments'
- __author__ = 'Tom Scholl & David Kerschner'
- description = u'Hacker News, run by Y Combinator. Anything that good hackers would find interesting, with a focus on programming and startups.'
- publisher = 'Y Combinator'
- category = 'news, programming, it, technology'
- delay = 1
- max_articles_per_feed = 20
- oldest_article = 3
- use_embedded_content = False
- no_stylesheets = True
- encoding = 'utf-8'
- language = 'en'
- requires_version = (0, 8, 16)
-
- feeds = [
- (u'Hacker News Frontpage', 'https://hnrss.org/frontpage'),
- (u'Ask Hacker News', 'https://hnrss.org/ask')
- ]
-
- temp_files = []
- articles_are_obfuscated = True
-
- def get_readable_content(self, url):
- self.log('get_readable_content(' + url + ')')
- br = self.get_browser()
- f = br.open(url)
- html = f.read()
- f.close()
-
- return self.extract_readable_article(html, url)
-
- def get_hn_content(self, url):
- self.log('get_hn_content(' + url + ')')
- soup = self.index_to_soup(url)
- main = soup.find('tr').findNextSiblings('tr', limit=2)[1].td
-
- title_element = main.select('td.title .titleline a')[0]
- self.log('title_element=' + repr(title_element))
- title = self.tag_to_string(title_element)
- self.log('title=' + title)
- link = title_element['href']
- # link = main.find('td', 'title').find('a')['href']
- if link.startswith('item?'):
- link = 'https://news.ycombinator.com/' + link
- readable_link = link.rpartition('http://')[2].rpartition('https://')[2]
- subtext = self.tag_to_string(main.find('td', 'subtext'))
-
- title_content_td = main.find('td', 'title').findParent(
- 'tr').findNextSiblings('tr', limit=3)[2].findAll('td', limit=2)[1]
- title_content = u''
- if not title_content_td.find('form'):
- title_content_td.name = 'div'
- title_content = title_content_td.prettify()
-
- comments = u''
- for td in main.findAll('td', 'default'):
- comhead = td.find('span', 'comhead')
- if comhead:
- com_title = u'' + \
- self.tag_to_string(comhead).replace(
- ' | link', '') + u'
'
- comhead.parent.extract()
- br = td.find('br')
- if br:
- br.extract()
- reply = td.find('a', attrs={'href': re.compile('^reply?')})
- if reply:
- reply.parent.extract()
- td.name = 'div'
- indent_width = (int(td.parent.find('td').img['width']) * 2) / 3
- td['style'] = 'padding-left: ' + str(indent_width) + 'px'
- comments = comments + com_title + td.prettify()
-
- body = u'' + title + u'
' + readable_link + \
- u'
' + subtext + u'
' + title_content + u'
'
- body = body + comments
- return u'' + title + u'' + body + ''
-
- def parse_feeds(self):
- a = super(HNWithCommentsLinkAlt, self).parse_feeds()
- self.hn_articles = a[0].articles
- return a
-
- def get_obfuscated_article(self, url):
- self.log('get_obfuscated_article with url=' + url)
- if url.startswith('https://news.ycombinator.com'):
- content = self.get_hn_content(url)
- else:
- # TODO: use content-type header instead of url
- is_image = False
- for ext in ['.jpg', '.png', '.svg', '.gif', '.jpeg', '.tiff', '.bmp', ]:
- if url.endswith(ext):
- is_image = True
- break
-
- if is_image:
- self.log('using image_content (' + url + ')')
- content = u'
'
- else:
- content = self.get_readable_content(url)
-
- article = 0
- for a in self.hn_articles:
- if a.url == url:
- article = a
-
- # content = re.sub(r' \s*