The Sun UK - update 6/10/12

[scissors]

Added Starson's code to remove article "Sun Says web porn harms our kids" always being first article

Spoiler:

import re, random

from calibre import browser
from calibre.web.feeds.recipes import BasicNewsRecipe

class AdvancedUserRecipe1325006965(BasicNewsRecipe):

    title          = u'The Sun UK'
    description = 'Recipe Author D.Asbury. UK'
    __author__ = 'Dave Asbury'
    # last updated 6/10/12 added starsons remove article code
    language = 'en_GB'
    oldest_article = 1
    max_articles_per_feed = 15
    remove_empty_feeds = True
    
    masthead_url = 'http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/img/global/Sun-logo.gif'
    encoding = 'UTF-8'
    remove_javascript     = True
    no_stylesheets = True
    
    

    extra_css  = '''
    body{ text-align: justify; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11px; font-size-adjust:none; font-stretch:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:normal;}
           '''
    keep_only_tags = [
		dict(name='div',attrs={'class' : 'intro'}), 
                                dict(name='h3'),
		dict(name='div',attrs={'id' : 'articlebody'}),
           #dict(attrs={'class' : ['right_col_branding','related-stories','mystery-meat-link','ltbx-container','ltbx-var ltbx-hbxpn','ltbx-var ltbx-nav-loop','ltbx-var ltbx-url']}),
           #                dict(name='div',attrs={'class' : 'cf'}),
          # dict(attrs={'title' : 'download flash'}),
          #                 dict(attrs={'style' : 'padding: 5px'})

           ]
    remove_tags_after = [dict(id='bodyText')]
    remove_tags=[
	              dict(name='li'),
                              dict(attrs={'class' : 'grid-4 right-hand-column'}),
		]

    feeds          = [
    (u'News', u'http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/rss'),
    (u'Sport', u'http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/rss'),
    (u'Showbiz', u'http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/rss'),
    (u'Woman', u'http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/rss'),
    ]
# starsons code
    def parse_feeds (self): 
      feeds = BasicNewsRecipe.parse_feeds(self) 
      for feed in feeds:
        for article in feed.articles[:]:
          print 'article.title is: ', article.title
          if 'Web porn harms kids' in article.title.upper() or 'The-Sun-says' in article.url:
            feed.articles.remove(article)
      return feeds

    def get_cover_url(self):
        soup = self.index_to_soup('http://www.politicshome.com/uk/latest_frontpage.html')
        # look for the block containing the sun button and url
        cov = soup.find(attrs={'style' : 'background-image: url(http://www.politicshome.com/images/sources/source_frontpage_button_84.gif);'})

        #cov = soup.find(attrs={'id' : 'large'})
        cov2 = str(cov)

        cov2='http://www.politicshome.com'+cov2[9:-133]
        #cov2 now contains url of the page containing pic
        #cov2 now contains url of the page containing pic
        soup = self.index_to_soup(cov2)
        cov = soup.find(attrs={'id' : 'large'})
        cov2 = str(cov)
        cov2=cov2[27:-18]
        #cov2 now is pic url, now  go back to original function
        print "**** cov2 =",cov2,"****"
        br = browser()
        br.set_handle_redirect(False)
        try:
            br.open_novisit(cov2)
            cover_url = cov2
        except:
            cover_url = random.choice([
                'http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00905/errorpage6_677961a_905507a.jpg'
                ,'http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00905/errorpage7_677962a_905505a.jpg'
                ,'http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00905/errorpage5_677960a_905512a.jpg'
                ,'http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00905/errorpage2_677957a_905502a.jpg'
                ,'http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00905/errorpage3_677958a_905503a.jpg'
                ])

        return cover_url