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

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Post by spidaman »

ericgs wrote: post #14
spidaman wrote: post #12

Does this work for anybody? I've plugged in 3 feeds, one was "unable to retrieve full-text content" (an sfgate.com feed) and the other two returned nothing at all in the preview (one a feed from kqed.org, the other an older wordpress blog).

Funny, I just added sfgate too and it worked for me: fulltextrssfeed.com/www.sfgate.com/rss/feeds/news.xml

Hrm, that one loads fine... but fulltextrssfeed.com/www.sfgate.com/rss/feeds/blogs/sfgate/offtherecord/index_rss2.xml fails with "unable to retrieve full-text content" and fulltextrssfeed.com/www.kqed.org/rss/arts.xml fails with "Unable to parse this page for content."

I have a lot of experience with fetching and parsing feeds and pages, so I'm not trivializing the problem, just observing issues I'm seeing with this solution.

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

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Post by roll »

dholowiski wrote: post #18
timrosenblatt wrote: post #2

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

The content thieves will love it too. This makes it much easier to automatically copy content.

I wonder how long will it take till sites like lifehacker and heise.de will start blocking this service...

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

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Post by baddox »

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.

This would probably be trivial with Yahoo! Pipes.

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/

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

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Post by getsat »

dholowiski wrote: post #18
timrosenblatt wrote: post #2

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

The content thieves will love it too. This makes it much easier to automatically copy content.

Not really. I can Right Click -> Copy XPath in Firebug's element inspector then just Nokogiri::HTML(page_source).xpath('/blah') to get at it. You can do it with the CSS selector as well. :)

Setting up a quick script to rip all the content from another site is trivial. There's also wget -m

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

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Post by timrosenblatt »

baddox wrote: post #23
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.

This would probably be trivial with Yahoo! Pipes. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/

there's a commenter further down the page by the handle of "Roll" that says Pipes didn't work for him.

And yeah, it was built in a weekend :) But now you don't have to.

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

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Post by aaroneous »

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?

I wasn't expecting much interest in it, but I'd be happy to clean it and package it up if you guys want to play.
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