[macpablus]

Originally Posted by Starson17

One comment I have is that you made it harder to help you by posting only a partial recipe. I suspect you were trying to simplify, but a solution to one part may complicate another part - as you know from the comments on keep_only.

That's right, I was trying to simplify 'cause I didn't want to bother too much.

Sorry for that. Here's the entire (original) recipe, that in fact is included in the last version of Calibre:

Spoiler:

#!/usr/bin/env  python

__license__   = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2008, Kovid Goyal <kovid at kovidgoyal.net>'
'''
pagina12.com.ar
'''
import re

from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
from calibre.ebooks.BeautifulSoup import Tag, NavigableString

class Pagina12(BasicNewsRecipe):

    title      = 'Pagina/12 - Edicion Impresa'
    __author__ = 'Pablo Marfil'
    description = 'Diario argentino'
    INDEX = 'http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/secciones/index.html'
    language = 'es'
    encoding              = 'cp1252'
    remove_tags_before = dict(id='fecha')
    remove_tags_after  = dict(id='fin')
    remove_tags        = [dict(id=['fecha', 'fin', 'pageControls','logo','logo_suple','fecha_suple','volver'])]
    masthead_url          = 'http://www.pagina12.com.ar/commons/imgs/logo-home.gif'
    no_stylesheets = True

    preprocess_regexps= [(re.compile(r'<!DOCTYPE[^>]+>', re.I), lambda m:'')]




    def get_cover_url(self):
        soup = self.index_to_soup('http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/principal/diario/index.html')
        for image in soup.findAll('img',alt=True):
           if image['alt'].startswith('Tapa de la fecha'):
              return image['src']
              print image
        return None


    def parse_index(self):
        articles = []
        numero = 1
        raw = self.index_to_soup('http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/secciones/index.html', raw=True)
        raw = re.sub(r'(?i)<!DOCTYPE[^>]+>', '', raw)
        soup = self.index_to_soup(raw)

        feeds = []

        seen_titles = set([])
        for section in soup.findAll('div','seccionx'):
            numero+=1
            print (numero)
            section_title = self.tag_to_string(section.find('div','desplegable_titulo on_principal right'))
            self.log('Found section:', section_title)
            articles = []
            for post in section.findAll('h2'):
                h = post.find('a', href=True)
                title = self.tag_to_string(h)
                if title in seen_titles:
                    continue
                seen_titles.add(title)
                a = post.find('a', href=True)
                url = a['href']
                if url.startswith('/'):
                    url = 'http://pagina12.com.ar/imprimir'+url
                p = post.find('div', attrs={'h2'})
                desc = None
                self.log('\tFound article:', title, 'at', url)
                if p is not None:
                    desc = self.tag_to_string(p)
                    self.log('\t\t', desc)
                articles.append({'title':title, 'url':url, 'description':desc,
                    'date':''})
            if articles:
                feeds.append((section_title, articles))
        return feeds


    def postprocess_html(self, soup, first):
        for table in soup.findAll('table', align='right'):
            img = table.find('img')
            if img is not None:
                img.extract()
                caption = self.tag_to_string(table).strip()
                div = Tag(soup, 'div')
                div['style'] = 'text-align:center'
                div.insert(0, img)
                div.insert(1, Tag(soup, 'br'))
                if caption:
                    div.insert(2, NavigableString(caption))
                table.replaceWith(div)

        return soup

My goal is to generate a new feed containing only the comic strip from...

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/ultimas/index.html

..that is included in <div class="top12 center" id="rudy_paz">.

So, your description seems correct (again!):

That sounds like you've got the recipe working for the page with links to the feed(s) and the page with links to the articles and your only problem left is controlling any excess junk that appears with the strip without affecting the articles. If that's where you are, then there are many options.

If my GPS is working as expected, I'm right there.