[zachlapidus]

Thanks truth1ness! What a great update. I just ran the script and had to make a slight tweak to get it to fetch the "long read" article about the silk road -- had to add something to the keep_only_tags to get the article to actually download, as it is (sigh) in a different format:

__license__   = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2014, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
'''
www.wired.com
'''

from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
from datetime import date
import urllib2

class WiredDailyNews(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title                 = 'Wired Magazine, Monthly Edition'
    __author__            = 'Darko Miletic, update by Zach Lapidus, Michael Marotta'
    description           = ('Wired is a full-color monthly American magazine, published in both print '
                             'and online editions, that reports on how emerging technologies affect culture,'
                             'the economy and politics. Monthly edition, best run at the start of every month.')
    publisher             = 'Conde Nast'
    category              = 'news, IT, computers, technology'
    oldest_article        = 2
    max_articles_per_feed = 200
    no_stylesheets        = True
    encoding              = 'utf-8'
    use_embedded_content  = False
    language              = 'en'
    ignore_duplicate_articles = {'url'}
    remove_empty_feeds    = True
    publication_type      = 'newsportal'
    extra_css             = """
                            .entry-header{
                                          text-transform: uppercase;
                                          vertical-align: baseline;
                                          display: inline;
                                         }
                            """

    remove_tags = [
        dict(name=['meta','link']),
        dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'podcast_storyboard'}),
        dict(id=['sharing', 'social', 'article-tags', 'sidebar']),
                  ]
    keep_only_tags=[
        dict(attrs={'data-js':['post', 'postHeader']}),
        dict(attrs={'class':'exchange fsb-content relative'})
    ]

    def get_date_url(self):
        '''
        get month and year, add year modifier, append to wired magazine url,
        :return: url
        '''
        baseurl = 'http://www.wired.com/tag/magazine-'
        monthurl = str('{:02d}'.format(date.today().month))
        yearurl = str(date.today().year - 1992)
        dateurl = baseurl + yearurl + '-' + monthurl + '/page/'
        return dateurl

    def parse_wired_index_page(self, currenturl, seen):
        soup   = self.index_to_soup(currenturl)
        for a in soup.find('main').findAll('a', href=True):
            url = a['href']
            if url.startswith('http://www.wired.com/') and url.endswith('/'):
                title = self.tag_to_string(a.find('h2'))
                dateloc = a.find('time')
                date = self.tag_to_string(dateloc)
                if title.lower() != 'read more' and title and url not in seen:
                    seen.add(url)
                    self.log('Found article:', title)
                    yield {'title':title, 'date':date, 'url':url, 'description':''}

    def parse_index(self):
        '''
        get the current month's url, index first page to soup, find number of pages,
        just keep adding to page num until soup is not none instead of scraping page for
        :return:
        '''
        baseurl = self.get_date_url()
        pagenum = 1
        articles = []
        seen = set()
        morepages = True
        while morepages:
            try:
                urllib2.urlopen(baseurl + str(pagenum))
                currenturl = baseurl + str(pagenum)
                articles.extend(self.parse_wired_index_page(currenturl, seen))
                pagenum += 1
            except urllib2.HTTPError:
                morepages = False
        return [('Articles', articles)]

Only one problem -- the svg images used in the article appear as black rectangles in both Calibre's viewer, and on the kindle. I tried fetching the news source as an ePub instead, thinking that that format did not rasterize svg, but got the black squares again. Any ideas?