build-in scmp recipe didn't download images

[timoy_kindle]

i am a subscriber of this scmp and i am using this recipe to get the news.

however, i didn't get any images.

can advise on this?

and why i always get 20 news per each category?

thanks!

__license__ = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2010, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
'''
scmp.com
'''

from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe

class SCMP(BasicNewsRecipe):
title = 'South China Morning Post'
__author__ = 'llam'
description = "SCMP.com, Hong Kong's premier online English daily provides exclusive up-to-date news, audio video news, podcasts, RSS Feeds, Blogs, breaking news, top stories, award winning news and analysis on Hong Kong and China."
publisher = 'South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd.'
category = 'SCMP, Online news, Hong Kong News, China news, Business news, English newspaper, daily newspaper, Lifestyle news, Sport news, Audio Video news, Asia news, World news, economy news, investor relations news, RSS Feeds'
oldest_article = 2
delay = 1
max_articles_per_feed = 200
no_stylesheets = True
encoding = 'utf-8'
auto_cleanup = True
use_embedded_content = False
language = 'en_CN'
remove_empty_feeds = True
needs_subscription = 'optional'
publication_type = 'newspaper'
masthead_url = 'http://www.scmp.com/images/logo_scmp_home.gif'
extra_css = ' body{font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif } '

conversion_options = {
'comment' : description
, 'tags' : category
, 'publisher' : publisher
, 'language' : language
}

def get_browser(self):
br = BasicNewsRecipe.get_browser(self)
#br.set_debug_http(True)
#br.set_debug_responses(True)
#br.set_debug_redirects(True)
if self.username is not None and self.password is not None:
br.open('https://www.scmp.com/user/login')
br.select_form(nr=0)
br['name'] = self.username
br['pass'] = self.password
br.submit()
return br

#remove_attributes=['width','height','border']

#keep_only_tags = [
#dict(attrs={'id':['ART','photoBox']})
#,dict(attrs={'class':['article_label','article_byline','article_body']})
#]

#preprocess_regexps = [
#(re.compile(r'<P><table((?!<table).)*class="embsc reen"((?!</table>).)*</table>', re.DOTALL|re.IGNORECASE),
#lambda match: ''),
#]

feeds = [
(u'Business' , u'http://www.scmp.com/rss/business.xml' )
,(u'Hong Kong' , u'http://www.scmp.com/rss/hong_kong.xml' )
,(u'China' , u'http://www.scmp.com/rss/china.xml' )
,(u'Asia & World' , u'http://www.scmp.com/rss/news_asia_world.xml')
,(u'Opinion' , u'http://www.scmp.com/rss/opinion.xml' )
,(u'LifeSTYLE' , u'http://www.scmp.com/rss/lifestyle.xml' )
,(u'Sport' , u'http://www.scmp.com/rss/sport.xml' )
]

#def print_version(self, url):
#rpart, sep, rest = url.rpartition('&')
#return rpart #+ sep + urllib.quote_plus(rest)

#def preprocess_html(self, soup):
#for item in soup.findAll(style=True):
#del item['style']
#items = soup.findAll(src="/images/label_icon.gif")
#[item.extract() for item in items]
#return self.adeify_images(soup)

[Krittika Goyal]

I will be happy to help if you give me login details. You can pm them to me and change them to dummy values. If you don't want to do that try using auto_cleanup_keep code mentioned in http://blog.calibre-ebook.com/2011/1...-fetching.html to fix it yourself.