Convert links to text in downloaded news

[jma1]

Downloaded news feeds can contain many hyperlinks to web pages which exist in the RSS articles. Using my kindle I can't stop inadvertently pressing text with embedded links and jumping to web pages when I only want to page forward in the document.

Is there a recipe command that would convert all the web hyperlinks to 'flat' text, i.e. the text with underscoring still appears with the article but there is no underlying link to a web page.

I did try this code found in a sticky recipe post but it does not kill the links.

Spoiler:

def preprocess_html(self, soup):
for alink in soup.findAll('a'):
if alink.string is not None:
tstr = alink.string
alink.replaceWith(tstr)
return soup

Thanks in advance.

[kovidgoyal]

That code wil lwork fine as long as you insert it with the correct indentation in the recipe and then run the customized recipe not th ebuiltin one.

[jma1]

Kovid,
I checked indentation on the code and believe it is correct but am not an expert. The hyperlinks are all still active.

I am testing with a copy of the latest Fox News recipe that you loaded as built-in some time ago. Is there some other code to be added to reflect 'customized recipe'?

Copy of test recipe attached. Thanks in advance.

[kovidgoyal]

preprocess_html has to a be memeber of the recipe class, which means it has to be inside the class definition indented by four spaces.

[jma1]

I moved the code inside the "class testnewssource(BasicNewsRecipe):" statement, so at the very bottom of the recipe, with same indent of 4 as the feeds, but the links are all still active.

[kovidgoyal]

here you go

[jma1]

Great - that works.

Is there any easy way to retain the blue text formatting for the linked-text, as a visible indicator that the original article has a link embedded below that text? Thanks.

[kovidgoyal]

a['style'] = 'color: blue'

[jma1]

Great - thanks again.