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Re: skimpage — consume fresh and fat-free page

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Post by steverandy »

jboynyc wrote: post #2

Pasted a URI, hit return, got "Processing...", then nothing further happened. The console (Firebug on FF25) shows the following error: 422 Unprocessable Entity {"error":"Could not get any feed"}

skimpage works by parsing feed url from a page. Not all pages include feed url unfortunately.

You can try other news website or paste feed URL directly. Then you will get something like this. http://skimpage.com/feeds/524f94b811c69d220b000001

Re: skimpage — consume fresh and fat-free page

#4

Post by jboynyc »

steverandy wrote: post #3
jboynyc wrote: post #2

Pasted a URI, hit return, got "Processing...", then nothing further happened. The console (Firebug on FF25) shows the following error: 422 Unprocessable Entity {"error":"Could not get any feed"}

skimpage works by parsing feed url from a page. Not all pages include feed url unfortunately. You can try other news website or paste feed URL directly. Then you will get something like this. http://skimpage.com/feeds/524f94b811c69d220b000001

Aha. I thought it would make a single article "skimmable" -- I didn't realize this was about feeds.

At the very least it should capture the error and give some kind of feedback.

Re: skimpage — consume fresh and fat-free page

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Post by steverandy »

bowerbird wrote: post #5

very nice. especially for a first iteration. made kottke.org even better... > http://skimpage.com/feeds/5252d80e8bd4c93413000006/articles/... i want to see more of this. -bowerbird

Thanks. I wanted to try Node.js. I thought since something like skimpage requires a lot of http calls, it will be suitable to use node.

Re: skimpage — consume fresh and fat-free page

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Post by steverandy »

jboynyc wrote: post #4
steverandy wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

skimpage works by parsing feed url from a page. Not all pages include feed url unfortunately. You can try other news website or paste feed URL directly. Then you will get something like this. http://skimpage.com/feeds/524f94b811c69d220b000001

Aha. I thought it would make a single article "skimmable" -- I didn't realize this was about feeds. At the very least it should capture the error and give some kind of feedback.

Added error message. Thanks!
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