[_reader]

The Richmond Times-Dispatch is the primary daily newspaper in Richmond the capital of Virginia, United States, and is commonly considered the "newspaper of record" for events occurring in much of the state. It utilizes reports from the Associated Press.

Recipe submitted for review / comments / inclusion.

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from calibre.web.feeds.recipes import BasicNewsRecipe

class RichmondTimesDispatch(BasicNewsRecipe):
	title				= u'Richmond Times-Dispatch'
	custom_title 		= "Richmond Times-Dispatch" 
	#custom_title 		= "Richmond Times-Dispatch - " + time.strftime('%d %b %Y %I:%M %p')
	description      	= "The Richmond Times-Dispatch is the primary daily newspaper in Richmond, \
							the capital of Virginia, United States, as well as the Virginia cities of Petersburg, \
							Chester. Hopewell, Colonial Heights, Charlottesville, Lynchburg, Waynesboro, \
							and is also a default paper for rural regions of the state.  \
							The RTD has published in some form for more than 150 years."
	__author__			= '_reader'
	__date__			= '05 July 2012'
	__version__			= '1.4'
	cover_url        	= 'http://static2.dukecms.com/va_tn/timesdispatch_com/site-media/img/icons/logo252x97.png'
	masthead_url        	= 'http://static2.dukecms.com/va_tn/timesdispatch_com/site-media/img/icons/logo252x97.png' 
	language        	= 'en'
	oldest_article		= 1.5 #days
	max_articles_per_feed	= 100
	needs_subscription	= False
	publisher			= 'timesdispatch.com'
	category			= 'news, commentary'
	tags				= 'news'
	publication_type	= 'newspaper'
	no_stylesheets		= True
	use_embedded_content= False
	encoding			= None
	simultaneous_downloads	= 20
	recursions			= 0
	remove_javascript	= True
	remove_empty_feeds	= True
	auto_cleanup		= False

	conversion_options = { 'title'   : custom_title,
                           'comments'    : description,
                           'tags'             : tags,
                           'language'      : language,
                           'publisher'      : publisher,
                           'authors'        : publisher,
                           'smarten_punctuation' : True
                            }

	remove_tags_before = dict(id='hnews hentry item')

	remove_tags_after   = dict(name='hr')

	remove_tags =	[
					dict(name='div', attrs={'id':['mg_hd', 'mg_ft', 'sr_b', 'comments_left', 'comments_right']})
					,dict(name='div', attrs={'class':['bottom_social','article_bottom']})
					,dict(name='table', attrs={'class':['ap-mediabox-table', 'ap-htmltable-table', 'ap-photogallery-table', 'ap-htmlfragment-table']})
					]


	preprocess_regexps = [
                   (re.compile(r'<table class="ap-story-table hnews hentry item".*?<td class="ap-story-td">', re.DOTALL|re.IGNORECASE), lambda match: ''), 			
                   (re.compile(r'<p>\s*http://www2.timesdispatch.*?</p>', re.DOTALL|re.IGNORECASE), lambda match: ''), 			
                   (re.compile(r'<p>\s*<img src="http://static2.dukecms.*?</p>', re.DOTALL|re.IGNORECASE), lambda match: ''), 			
                   (re.compile(r'<p>\s*<a href="http://www2.timesdispatch.*?</p>', re.DOTALL|re.IGNORECASE), lambda match: ''), 		
                   (re.compile(r'<hr.*?>', re.DOTALL|re.IGNORECASE), lambda match: ''), 			#strip <hr /> line break
                   (re.compile(r'<a\s*rel="item-license.*?Use</a>.', re.DOTALL|re.IGNORECASE), lambda match: ''), 			#strip <hr /> line break
                   (re.compile(r'<small>\s*Richmond Times-Dispatch.*?</small>', re.DOTALL|re.IGNORECASE), lambda match: ''), 			#strip <hr /> line break
					]


	feeds          =   [
	('News',		'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/news-archive'),
	('Breaking News',	'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/breaking-news'),
	('National News',	'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/national-news'),
	('Local News',		'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/local-news'),
	('Business',		'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/business'),
	('Local Business',	'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/local-business'),
	('Politics',		'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/politics'),
	('Virginia Politics',	'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/virginia-politics'),
	('Sports',		'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/sports2'),
	('Health',		'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/feed/rss/lifestyles/health_med_fit/'),
	('Entertainment/Life',	'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/entertainment'),
	('Arts/Theatre',	'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/feed/rss/entertainment/arts_theatre/'),
	('Movies',		'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/movies'),
	('Music',		'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/music'),
	('Dining & Food',	'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/dining'),
	('Home & Garden',	'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/home-and-garden/'),
	#inactive('Travel',		'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/feed/rss/travel/'),
	('Opinion',		'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/feed/rss/news/opinion/'),
	('Editorials',		'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/editorial-desk'),
	('Columnists and Blogs',	'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/news-columnists-blogs'),
	('Opinion Columnists',	'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/opinion-editorial-columnists'),
	('Letters to the Editor',	'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/opinion-letters'),
	('Traffic',		'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/traffic'),
	    ]

	def print_version(self,url):
		article_num = re.sub(r'(^.*)\-([0-9]{4,10})\/$', r'\g<2>', url)					
		ap_pat = re.compile('http')
		#print '\nDEBUG>>>>>>>>: article_num: ', article_num
		#print 'DEBUG>>>>>>>>: ap_pat.search(article_num): ', ap_pat.search(article_num)
		if ap_pat.search(article_num):            #AP article, no print url
			#print 'DEBUG>>>>>>>>: AP URL: ', url
			return url
		else:                                     
			printURL = 'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/member-center/share-this/print/?content=ar' + article_num
			return printURL