Full Text RSS Feed: Get the whole feed and nothing but the feed

Could you also do the opposite: Take bulky feeds (e.g. http://feeds.feedburner.com/tedblog) and truncate them; showing title & first para & include a link? I use RSS primarily to scan what is available and mark some for later reading, and bulky feeds interrupt the scanning process.

Re: Full Text RSS Feed: Get the whole feed and nothing but the feed

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Post by netmau5 » Tue, Mar 01, 2011, 11:34 PM UTC

Nice, this will come in very useful for an RSS-based project I'm working on too. Hopefully I won't slam your servers too hard. Are you considering making the source available?

Re: Full Text RSS Feed: Get the whole feed and nothing but the feed

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Post by timrosenblatt » Tue, Mar 01, 2011, 11:37 PM UTC

netmau5 wrote: post #6

Nice, this will come in very useful for an RSS-based project I'm working on too. Hopefully I won't slam your servers too hard. Are you considering making the source available?

it's not mine, it's a project a friend threw together over the weekend. It's on a shared host, but I'm trying to help light the server on fire so he puts it on something more heavy duty. :)

Re: Full Text RSS Feed: Get the whole feed and nothing but the feed

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Post by timrosenblatt » Tue, Mar 01, 2011, 11:40 PM UTC

yagibear wrote: post #5

Could you also do the opposite: Take bulky feeds (e.g. http://feeds.feedburner.com/tedblog ) and truncate them; showing title & first para & include a link? I use RSS primarily to scan what is available and mark some for later reading, and bulky feeds interrupt the scanning process.

that's a good idea. I will bring it up to him.

Re: Full Text RSS Feed: Get the whole feed and nothing but the feed

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Post by boctor » Tue, Mar 01, 2011, 11:41 PM UTC

timrosenblatt wrote: post #3

timrosenblatt wrote: post #2

Nice. Grabs the whole article text so you don't have to leave the RSS reader.

Lol: http://fulltextrssfeed.com/news.ycombinator.com/rss Works well for keeping up with HN too :)

Why do a couple of articles in that feed say either "Unable to parse this page for content" (daringfireball.net) or "unable to retrieve full-text content" (nytimes.com)?

Re: Full Text RSS Feed: Get the whole feed and nothing but the feed

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Post by roll » Tue, Mar 01, 2011, 11:46 PM UTC

interesting project. I was doing a similar thing with yahoo pipes, but it got blocked because of robots.txt. What do you do about it?