The current recipe doesn't seem to download the cover page for the
London Review of Books anymore.
Changing the URL to the code below should get you the cover back:
Code:
__license__ = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2008-2010, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
'''
lrb.co.uk
'''
from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
class LondonReviewOfBooks(BasicNewsRecipe):
title = 'London Review of Books (free)'
__author__ = 'Darko Miletic'
description = 'Literary review publishing essay-length book reviews and topical articles on politics, literature, history, philosophy, science and the arts by leading writers and thinkers'
category = 'News'
publisher = 'LRB ltd.'
oldest_article = 15
max_articles_per_feed = 100
language = 'en_GB'
no_stylesheets = True
use_embedded_content = False
encoding = 'utf-8'
publication_type = 'magazine'
masthead_url = 'http://www.lrb.co.uk/assets/images/lrb_logo_big.gif'
extra_css = ' body{font-family: Georgia,Palatino,"Palatino Linotype",serif} '
conversion_options = {
'comments' : description
,'tags' : category
,'language' : language
,'publisher' : publisher
}
keep_only_tags = [dict(attrs={'class':['article-body indent','letters','article-list']})]
remove_attributes = ['width','height']
feeds = [(u'London Review of Books', u'http://www.lrb.co.uk/lrbrss.xml')]
def get_cover_url(self):
cover_url = None
soup = self.index_to_soup('http://www.lrb.co.uk/')
cover_item = soup.find('p',attrs={'class':'cover'})
if cover_item:
#old:
#cover_url = 'http://www.lrb.co.uk' + cover_item.a.img['src']
#new:
cover_url = cover_item.a.img['src']
return cover_url