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-# -*- mode:python -*-
-from __future__ import unicode_literals
-
-__license__   = 'GPL v3'
-__copyright__ = '2009, Mathieu Godlewski <mathieu at godlewski.fr>; 2010-2012, Louis Gesbert <meta at antislash dot info>'
-'''
-Mediapart
-'''
-
-__author__ = '2009, Mathieu Godlewski <mathieu at godlewski.fr>; 2010-2012, Louis Gesbert <meta at antislash dot info>'
-
-import re
-from calibre.ebooks.BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
-from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
-from calibre.web.feeds import feeds_from_index
-from datetime import date,timedelta
-
-class Mediapart(BasicNewsRecipe):
-    title = 'Mediapart'
-    __author__ = 'Mathieu Godlewski, Louis Gesbert'
-    description = 'Global news in french from news site Mediapart'
-    publication_type = 'newspaper'
-    language = 'fr'
-    needs_subscription = True
-    oldest_article = 2
-
-    use_embedded_content = False
-    no_stylesheets = True
-
-    cover_url = 'https://static.mediapart.fr/files/M%20Philips/logo-mediapart.png'
-
-# --
-
-    oldest_article_date = date.today() - timedelta(days=oldest_article)
-
-# -- get the index (the feed at 'http://www.mediapart.fr/articles/feed' only has
-#    the 10 last elements :/)
-
-    feeds =  [
-        ('La Une', 'http://www.mediapart.fr/articles/feed'),
-    ]
-
-    def parse_feeds(self):
-        feeds = super(Mediapart, self).parse_feeds()
-        feeds += feeds_from_index(self.my_parse_index(feeds))
-        return feeds
-
-    def my_parse_index(self, la_une):
-        articles = []
-
-        breves = []
-        liens = []
-        confidentiels = []
-
-        soup = self.index_to_soup('https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/fil-dactualites')
-        page = soup.find('div', {'id':'pageFirstContent'})
-        fils = page.find('div', {'class':re.compile(r'\bcontent-journal\b')})
-
-        for article in fils.findAll('div'):
-            try:
-                title = article.find('h2',recursive=False)
-                if title is None or title['class'] == 'title-specific':
-                    continue
-
-                # print "found fil ",title
-                article_type = article.find('a', {'href': re.compile(r'.*\/type-darticles\/.*')}).renderContents()
-                # print "kind: ",article_type
-
-                for s in title('span'):
-                    s.replaceWith(s.renderContents() + "\n")
-                url = title.find('a', href=True)['href']
-
-                article_date = self.parse_french_date(article.find("span", "article-date").renderContents())
-
-                if article_date < self.oldest_article_date:
-                    # print "too old"
-                    continue
-
-                authors = article.findAll('a',{'class':re.compile(r'\bjournalist\b')})
-                authors = [self.tag_to_string(a) for a in authors]
-
-                description = article.find('div', {'class': lambda c: c != 'taxonomy-teaser'}, recursive=False).findAll('p')
-
-                # print "fil ",title," by ",authors," : ",description
-
-                summary = {
-                    'title': self.tag_to_string(title).strip(),
-                    'author': ', '.join(authors),
-                    'url': url,
-                    'date': u'' + article_date.strftime("%A %d %b %Y"),
-                    'description': '\n'.join([self.tag_to_string(d) for d in description]),
-                }
-                {
-                    "Brève": breves,
-                    "Lien": liens,
-                    "Confidentiel": confidentiels,
-                }.get(article_type).append(summary)
-            except:
-                pass
-
-        # print 'La Une: ', len(la_une), ' articles'
-        # for a in la_une: print a["title"]
-        # print 'Brèves: ', len(breves), ' articles'
-        # print 'Revue web: ', len(liens), ' articles'
-        # print 'Confidentiel: ', len(confidentiels), ' articles'
-
-        articles += [('Brèves', breves)] if breves else []
-        articles += [('Revue du Web', liens)] if liens else []
-        articles += [('Confidentiel', confidentiels)] if confidentiels else []
-        return articles
-
-# -- print-version
-
-    conversion_options = {'smarten_punctuation' : True}
-
-    remove_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'print-source_url'})]
-
-    # non-locale specific date parse (strptime("%d %b %Y",s) would work with french locale)
-    def parse_french_date(self, date_str):
-        date_arr = date_str.lower().split()
-        return date(day=int(date_arr[0]),
-                    year=int(date_arr[2]),
-                    month=[None, 'janvier', 'février', 'mars', 'avril', 'mai', 'juin', 'juillet',
-                       'août', 'septembre', 'octobre', 'novembre', 'décembre'].index(date_arr[1]))
-
-    def print_version(self, url):
-        raw = self.browser.open(url).read()
-        soup = BeautifulSoup(raw.decode('utf8', 'replace'))
-
-        # Filter old articles
-        article_date = self.parse_french_date(self.tag_to_string(soup.find('span', 'article-date')))
-
-        if article_date < self.oldest_article_date:
-            return None
-
-        tools = soup.find('div', {'class':'menu-tools'})
-        link = tools.find('a', {'href': re.compile(r'\/print\/.*')})
-        if link is None:
-            print 'Error: print link not found'
-            return None
-        return 'https://mediapart.fr/' + link['href']
-
-# -- Handle login
-    def get_browser(self):
-        br = BasicNewsRecipe.get_browser(self)
-        if self.username is not None and self.password is not None:
-            br.open('https://www.mediapart.fr/login')
-            br.select_form(nr=1)
-            br['name'] = self.username
-            br['password'] = self.password
-            br.submit()
-        return br
-
-    # This is a workaround articles with scribd content that include
-    # <body></body> tags _within_ the body
-    preprocess_regexps = [
-        (re.compile(r'(<body.*?>)(.*)</body>', re.IGNORECASE|re.DOTALL),
-         lambda match:
-             match.group(1) + re.sub(
-                 re.compile(r'</?body>', re.IGNORECASE|re.DOTALL),'', match.group(2)) + '</body>')
-    ]