Trying to strip the date from an article URL

[Finbar127]

Hi Everyone,

I'm trying to create a recipe for a local newspaper. The article URL is formated like this:

"http://www.mahopacnews.com/Articles-c-2011-02-15-207354.112113-Former-official-to-receive-750-daily-for-interim-position-plus-pension-.html"

The print version url is formated like this:

"http://www.mahopacnews.com/LPprintwindow.LASSO?-token.editorialcall=207354.112113"

The problem I have is that this section of the article URL "-c-2011-02-15-" contains a date which changes so using url.replace does not seem to work. Is there a work around for this? I saw a couple of examples using spilt.url however I am new to this and I can't seem to get it to work.

I would also like to strip out all the characters after the article number ie: "-Former-official-to-receive-750-daily-for-interim-position-plus-pension-.html"

I would appreciate any help that you folks could give me.

Thanks

John

[Finbar127]

from calibre.web.feeds.recipes import BasicNewsRecipe

class AdvancedUserRecipe1297969350(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title = u'Mahopac News'
    description = 'Mahopac News Features'
    oldest_article = 2
    max_articles_per_feed = 100

    feeds = [(u' ', u'http://www.mahopacnews.com/rssheadlines.xml')]

    def print_version(self,url):

          baseURL='http://www.mahopacnews.com/LPprintwindow.LASSO?-token.editorialcall='
          segments = url.split('-')
          printURL = baseURL + segments[5]
        
          return printURL