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

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Post by guptaneil »

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).

The preview for Lifehacker returned nothing at all, but adding the feed to Google Reader worked as advertised. I guess, don't rely on the preview box.

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

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Post by geoffw8 »

getsat wrote: post #24
dholowiski wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I literally cannot get nokogiri set up on my Mac for love nor money, I'm a noob whose been trying for a week or two. Tried everything. Its preventing me from running tests. Damn xmllibs2.

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

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Post by shadowpwner »

aaroneous wrote: post #30
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.

Yes please.

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

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Post by timrosenblatt »

jonkelly wrote: post #28
geuis wrote: post #17

Could you darken up on the grey a bit? Grey on white on grey isn't exactly easy to read.

Could be a way to slow down the feed owners' lawyers a bit? ;-)

lol.

What's the difference between a Cease & Desist letter from a big company, and free advertising for a startup?

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

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Post by yesimahuman »

grayrest wrote: post #11

What's he using to pull out the articles? I had a hacky version set up using the Readability algorithm but never bothered to make it public.

Boilerpipe is by far the best tool for this that I've ever found (http://code.google.com/p/boilerpipe/). I'd be interested to hear if he is using something better, but I'd be surprised if he is.

I think this is a great idea and very similar to a lot of stuff I have worked on recently. It's cool to see so much interest in these text-related services.

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