1st tv

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Kodi plugin: plays latest news from Russian 1tv.

"""

import sys
import urllib2
from xml.etree import ElementTree
from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
import xbmc
import xbmcgui
import xbmcplugin

__author__ = "Dmitry Sandalov"
__copyright__ = "Copyright 2014, Dmitry Sandalov"
__credits__ = []
__license__ = "GNU GPL v2.0"
__version__ = "1.0.5"
__maintainer__ = "Dmitry Sandalov"
__email__ = "dmitry@sandalov.org"
__status__ = "Development"

html = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.1tv.ru/newsvideoarchive/').read()
col=html.find('/iframed/embednewslist.html?id=')
id=html[col+31:col+44].replace('"','')
html = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.1tv.ru/swfxml/newsvyp/'+id).read()

addon_handle = int(sys.argv[1])
xbmcplugin.setContent(addon_handle, 'movies')

root = ElementTree.fromstring(html)
namespace = "{http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/}"
items = []
playlist = xbmc.PlayList(xbmc.PLAYLIST_VIDEO)
xbmc.PlayList.clear(playlist)
for item in root.getiterator('item'):
    url = item.find(namespace + "content").attrib['url']
    title = item.find('title').text
    img = item.find(namespace + "thumbnail").attrib['url']
    li = xbmcgui.ListItem(label=title, iconImage=img, thumbnailImage=img)
    items.append((url, li, False,))
    playlist.add(url=url, listitem=li, index=len(items))
xbmcplugin.addDirectoryItems(addon_handle, items, totalItems=len(items))
xbmc.Player().play(playlist)
xbmcplugin.endOfDirectory(addon_handle)