Alright, for the life of me I don't know what the deal is with my "test environment". I reported this as a potential bug but Kovid stated that it wasn't that I just needed to add more remove_tags and such. Well Yeah

The issue at hand is still this. If i take and run ebook-convert test1.recipe out_put_dir --test -vv > myrecipe.txt
Yes, I know it only gets too feeds. but the problem is in "most not all but most cases" it cleans the dang junk up. So when i run the test after using remove_tags then I see no junk I automatically assume that it is fine. But that is simply not the case. For instance the popular science code that I submitted for 7.20 I was led to believe it worked fine because the console test looked perfect. yet when i look run the built in recipe in 7.20 i get junk. I ran the recipe without --test and the same exact article(s) that showed perfect when using the --test switch show junk.
So what is the suggestion? To not use --test and run full feed parsing? The test just makes it faster to well "test"
here is the code if your interesting in seeing what I mean. I mean yeah i realize that it needs more remove_tags and keep_only tags but that is not the issue. The issue is why does the same article from the same feed with the same code show two totally different results when i use --test vs not using --test ?
Spoiler:
Code:
from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
from calibre.ebooks.BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup, re
class AdvancedUserRecipe1282101454(BasicNewsRecipe):
title = 'Popular Science'
language = 'en'
__author__ = 'TonytheBookworm'
description = 'Popular Science'
publisher = 'Popular Science'
category = 'gadgets,science'
oldest_article = 7 # change this if you want more current articles. I like to go a week in
max_articles_per_feed = 100
no_stylesheets = True
remove_javascript = True
masthead_url = 'http://www.raytheon.com/newsroom/rtnwcm/groups/Public/documents/masthead/rtn08_popscidec_masthead.jpg'
remove_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'id':['toolbar','main_supplements']}),
dict(name='span', attrs={'class':['comments']}),
dict(name='div', attrs={'class':['relatedinfo related-right','node_navigation','content2']}),
dict(name='ul', attrs={'class':['item-list clear-block']})]
feeds = [
('Gadgets', 'http://www.popsci.com/full-feed/gadgets'),
('Cars', 'http://www.popsci.com/full-feed/cars'),
('Science', 'http://www.popsci.com/full-feed/science'),
('Technology', 'http://www.popsci.com/full-feed/technology'),
('DIY', 'http://www.popsci.com/full-feed/diy'),
]
#The following will get read of the Gallery: links when found
def preprocess_html(self, soup) :
print 'SOUP IS: ', soup
weblinks = soup.findAll(['head','h2'])
if weblinks is not None:
for link in weblinks:
if re.search('(Gallery)(:)',str(link)):
link.parent.extract()
return soup
#-----------------------------------------------------------------
Kovid: I will submit an update to you soon for Popular Science as well. Seems like both of my submissions for 7.20 were no go for launch

That's what i get for assuming all was fine when using the --test switch