[lui1]

Junk artifacts have been creeping through with the current recipe of Los Angeles Times. So, I updated the patterns to reflect the latest markup conventions and I tweaked the recipe a bit to include the bylines of the articles.

Los Angeles Times

#!/usr/bin/env python2
# vim:fileencoding=UTF-8:ts=4:sw=4:sta:et:sts=4:fdm=marker:ai
from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function, unicode_literals

from collections import defaultdict
from pprint import pformat

from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe

def classes(classes):
    q = frozenset(classes.split(' '))
    return dict(
	attrs={'class': lambda x: x and frozenset(x.split()).intersection(q)})

def absurl(url):
    if url.startswith('/'):
	url = 'http://www.latimes.com' + url
    return url


class LATimes(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title = 'Los Angeles Times'
    __author__ = 'Kovid Goyal'
    description = 'The Los Angeles Times is a leading source of news on Southern California, entertainment, movies, television, music, politics, business, health, technology, travel, sports, environment, economics, autos, jobs, real estate and other topics affecting California'  # noqa
    category = 'news, politics, USA, Los Angeles, world'
    oldest_article = 2
    max_articles_per_feed = 200
    no_stylesheets = True
    encoding = 'utf8'
    use_embedded_content = False
    language = 'en'
    remove_empty_feeds = True
    publication_type = 'newspaper'
    cover_url = 'http://www.latimes.com/includes/sectionfronts/A1.pdf'

    keep_only_tags = [
	dict(name='h1'),
	dict(attrs={'class': 'trb_ar_main'}),
    ]

    remove_tags_after = [
	dict(itemprop='articleBody'),
    ]

    remove_tags = [
	dict(attrs={'data-content-type': 'blurb'}),
	classes('trb_ar_cont trb_gptAd trb_filmstrip trb_ar_sponsoredmod'),
    ]

    def parse_index(self):
	soup = self.index_to_soup('http://www.latimes.com')
	feeds = defaultdict(list)
	for x in soup.findAll(
	    attrs={
		'data-content-type': 'story',
		'data-content-section': True,
		'data-content-slug': True,
	    }
	):
	    a = x.find('a', attrs={'class': lambda x: not x or 'SectionHeading' not in x})
	    if a is not None:
		url = absurl(a['href'])
		section = x['data-content-section'].capitalize()
		title = self.tag_to_string(a)
		feeds[section].append({'title': title, 'url': url})
	self.log(pformat(dict(feeds)))
	return [(k, feeds[k]) for k in sorted(feeds)]

    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
	for img in soup.findAll('img', attrs={'data-baseurl': True}):
	    img['src'] = img['data-baseurl'] + '/750'
	for div in soup.findAll(itemprop='articleBody'):
	    div.extract()
	    soup.find('body').append(div)
	return soup