Calibre rss recipe -- <em> tag in article titles?

[TonyDeWonderful]

This is my first time posting and I'm fairly new to writing recipes. I'm having a problem with a recipe that I'm using to download an rss feed to my Kindle3.

The recipe itself works fine except that the article titles sometimes contain <em> and </em> tags (for example, the article title on the Kindle and Calibre v. 0.7.48 will show "<em>Godzilla</em> vs. Real Life"). This was also occurring in the main title once you opened the article but I was able to remove that via "preprocess_html".

Since the "preprocess_html" did not affect the article title, can someone provide me some direction as to how to remove the <em> and </em> tags from the article title?

I've included the recipe that I'm using below.

Thanks!

recipe:

import re
from calibre.web.feeds.recipes import BasicNewsRecipe

class AdvancedUserRecipe1288623850(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title = u'Hit and Run Blog'
    oldest_article = 1 
    max_articles_per_feed = 100
    timefmt = ''
    encoding= 'cp1252'
    preprocess_regexps = [
                                  (re.compile(r"<em>"),lambda match: ''),
                                  (re.compile(r"</em>"),lambda match: '')
                                  ]
    feeds = [(u'Hit and Run Blog',
'http://feeds.feedburner.com/reason/HitandRun')]

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[Starson17]

Originally Posted by TonyDeWonderful

The recipe itself works fine except that the article titles sometimes contain <em> and </em> tags (for example, the article title on the Kindle and Calibre v. 0.7.48 will show "<em>Godzilla</em> vs. Real Life"). This was also occurring in the main title once you opened the article but I was able to remove that via "preprocess_html".

Since the "preprocess_html" did not affect the article title, can someone provide me some direction as to how to remove the <em> and </em> tags from the article title?

Use populate_article_metadata like this:

    def populate_article_metadata(self, article, soup, first):
       print "Pop article title is: ", article.title
       article.title = article.title
       return

Except, do a replace or whatever you want to the article.title

I've included the recipe that I'm using below.

Use code tags in the future, it makes it easier to use your code (highlight and hit the pound/hash symbol to mark your code.

[TonyDeWonderful]

Thanks for the help! I have it working now.