[veezh]

Just in case others may get some use out of this, I cobbled together my own recipe for Le Monde (I'm not a programmer, and my python skills are very limited), but it seems to be working OK.

The recipe also cleans up the non-typographical quotation marks used on the site, replacing them with proper guillemets (angle bracket quotes) and non-breaking spaces.

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

class LeMonde(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title                  = 'Le Monde'
    description            = 'Actualités'
    oldest_article         = 1
    max_articles_per_feed  = 100
    no_stylesheets         = True
    #delay                  = 1
    use_embedded_content   = False
    encoding               = 'cp1252'
    publisher              = 'lemonde.fr'
    language               = 'fr_FR'
    conversion_options = {
                             'comments'        : description
                            ,'tags'            : category
                            ,'language'        : language
                            ,'publisher'       : publisher
                            ,'linearize_tables': True
                         }

    remove_empty_feeds = True

    filterDuplicates = True

    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
        for alink in soup.findAll('a'):
            if alink.string is not None:
               tstr = alink.string
               alink.replaceWith(tstr)
        return soup

    preprocess_regexps = [
        (re.compile(r' \''), lambda match: ' ‘'),
        (re.compile(r'\''), lambda match: '’'),
        (re.compile(r'"<'), lambda match: '&nbsp;&raquo;<'),
        (re.compile(r'>"'), lambda match: '>&laquo;&nbsp;'),
        (re.compile(r'&rsquo;"'), lambda match: '&rsquo;«&nbsp;'),
        (re.compile(r' "'), lambda match: ' &laquo;&nbsp;'),
        (re.compile(r'" '), lambda match: '&nbsp;&raquo; '),
        (re.compile(r'\("'), lambda match: '(&laquo;&nbsp;'),
        (re.compile(r'"\)'), lambda match: '&nbsp;&raquo;)'),
        (re.compile(r'"\.'), lambda match: '&nbsp;&raquo;.'),
        (re.compile(r'",'), lambda match: '&nbsp;&raquo;,'),
        (re.compile(r'"\?'), lambda match: '&nbsp;&raquo;?'),
        (re.compile(r'":'), lambda match: '&nbsp;&raquo;:'),
        (re.compile(r'";'), lambda match: '&nbsp;&raquo;;'),
        (re.compile(r'"\!'), lambda match: '&nbsp;&raquo;!'),
        (re.compile(r' :'), lambda match: '&nbsp;:'),
        (re.compile(r' ;'), lambda match: '&nbsp;;'),
        (re.compile(r' \?'), lambda match: '&nbsp;?'),
        (re.compile(r' \!'), lambda match: '&nbsp;!'),
        (re.compile(r'\s»'), lambda match: '&nbsp;»'),
        (re.compile(r'«\s'), lambda match: '«&nbsp;'),
        (re.compile(r' %'), lambda match: '&nbsp;%'),
        (re.compile(r'\.jpg&nbsp;&raquo; border='), lambda match: '.jpg'),
        (re.compile(r'\.png&nbsp;&raquo; border='), lambda match: '.png'),
        ]

    keep_only_tags    = [
                       dict(name='div', attrs={'class':['contenu']})
                        ]

    remove_tags_after = [dict(id='appel_temoignage')]

    def get_article_url(self, article): 
        link = article.get('link')
        if 'blog' not in link:
             return link



    feeds          = [
                      ('A la une', 'http://www.lemonde.fr/rss/une.xml'),
                      ('International', 'http://www.lemonde.fr/rss/tag/international.xml'),
                      ('Europe', 'http://www.lemonde.fr/rss/tag/europe.xml'),
                      (u'Société', 'http://www.lemonde.fr/rss/tag/societe.xml'),
                      ('Economie', 'http://www.lemonde.fr/rss/tag/economie.xml'),
                      (u'Médias', 'http://www.lemonde.fr/rss/tag/actualite-medias.xml'),
                      (u'Planète', 'http://www.lemonde.fr/rss/tag/planete.xml'),
                      ('Culture', 'http://www.lemonde.fr/rss/tag/culture.xml'),
                      ('Technologies', 'http://www.lemonde.fr/rss/tag/technologies.xml'),
                      ('Livres', 'http://www.lemonde.fr/rss/tag/livres.xml'),

                    ]

    def get_cover_url(self):
        cover_url = None
        soup = self.index_to_soup('http://www.lemonde.fr/web/monde_pdf/0,33-0,1-0,0.html')
        link_item = soup.find('div',attrs={'class':'pg-gch'})

        if link_item and link_item.img:
           cover_url = link_item.img['src']

        return cover_url