I happened to work on this separately, and here's code that worked for me.
Code:
__license__ = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2017, mrshister'
'''
www.straitstimes.com
'''
import re
from calibre.web.feeds.recipes import BasicNewsRecipe
class StraitsTimes(BasicNewsRecipe):
title = 'The Straits Times'
__author__ = 'mrshister'
description = 'Singapore newspaper'
oldest_article = 2
max_articles_per_feed = 100
no_stylesheets = True
use_embedded_content = False
encoding = 'utf-8'
publisher = 'Singapore Press Holdings Ltd.'
category = 'news, politics, singapore, asia'
language = 'en_SG'
conversion_options = {
'comments': description, 'tags': category, 'language': language, 'publisher': publisher
}
preprocess_regexps = [
(re.compile(
r'<meta name="description" content="[^"]+"\s*/?>',
re.IGNORECASE | re.DOTALL),
lambda m:''),
(re.compile(r'<!--.+?-->', re.IGNORECASE | re.DOTALL),
lambda m: ''),
]
headline_reg_exp = 'headline node-title' # Headline
img_reg_exp = 'media-entity' # Main Image
body_reg_exp = 'odd\sfield-item' # Article Body
subheadline_reg_exp = 'node-subheadline' # Sub-headline
related_reg_exp = '^.*related_story.*$' # Related Stories
keep_only_tags = [
dict(name='h1', attrs={'class': re.compile(headline_reg_exp, re.IGNORECASE)})
,dict(name='figure', attrs={'itemprop': re.compile(img_reg_exp, re.IGNORECASE)})
,dict(name='div', attrs={'class': 'story-postdate'}) # Publish time
,dict(name='h2', attrs={'class': re.compile(subheadline_reg_exp, re.IGNORECASE)})
,dict(name='div', attrs={'class': re.compile(body_reg_exp, re.IGNORECASE)}) # Article Body
]
remove_tags = [
dict(name='div', attrs={'class': re.compile(related_reg_exp, re.IGNORECASE)})
]
remove_tags_after = dict(name='div', attrs={'class': 'hr_thin'})
feeds = [
(u'Top of the News' , u'http://www.straitstimes.com/print/top-of-the-news/rss.xml')
,(u'World' , u'http://www.straitstimes.com/print/world/rss.xml')
,(u'Home' , u'http://www.straitstimes.com/print/home/rss.xml')
,(u'Business' , u'http://www.straitstimes.com/print/business/rss.xml')
,(u'Life' , u'http://www.straitstimes.com/print/life/rss.xml')
,(u'Science' , u'http://www.straitstimes.com/print/science/rss.xml')
,(u'Digital' , u'http://www.straitstimes.com/print/digital/rss.xml')
,(u'Insight' , u'http://www.straitstimes.com/print/insight/rss.xml')
,(u'Opinion' , u'http://www.straitstimes.com/print/opinion/rss.xml')
,(u'Forum' , u'http://www.straitstimes.com/print/forum/rss.xml')
,(u'Big Picture' , u'http://www.straitstimes.com/print/big-picture/rss.xml')
,(u'Community' , u'http://www.straitstimes.com/print/community/rss.xml')
,(u'Education' , u'http://www.straitstimes.com/print/education/rss.xml')
]
def preprocess_html(self, soup):
for img in soup.findAll('img', srcset=True):
img['src'] = img['srcset'].partition(' ')[0]
img['srcset'] = ''
return soup