Most of RSS feeds nowadays only include the title and a small abstract of the posts. For this kind of feeds, is there any way to retrieve the full contents on Google Reader? So having to visit the external site to read the post is no longer necessary.
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1Good question, but I think unfortunately it's the kind of thing that would need to be customised depending on the site... maybe that's a project to get started though? Making full feeds of sites that only offer partial ones? Not sure they'd like that though!– x3jaCommented Jul 6, 2010 at 4:00
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1I hate sites that only do partial feeds. I've unsubscribed to more than one because of it.– aleCommented Jul 6, 2010 at 11:56
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They hate you for not reading the ads that pay them to write the articles you read for free ;-)– Ivo FlipseCommented Jul 7, 2010 at 8:08
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Technically, you could include the ads on the rss feed as well (I think a lot of sites do that.) The situation is even worse on sites that offer a "mobile friendly layout" and redirect you to the mobile home page, forcing you to hunt down the article you were trying to read in the first place.– LeonardoCommented Jul 8, 2010 at 0:16
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There is at least one Greasemonkey script which can kind of get you there by actually pulling in the post from the website.
Gina Trapani's "Better GReader" Firefox extension includes a number of Greasemonkey scripts to improve the Google Reader experience, including "previews" for partial feeds.
Can you not just select the subscription / or use Google Play (View Settings -> View in Reader Play) within Google Reader ?
For example Mashable gives abstracts
Say I subscribe to their feed.
and I am able to see the entire post
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Actually, Mashable does include full articles on their RSS feed. You can verify it yourself by opening this link on internet explorer and selecting View Source: feeds.mashable.com/Mashable?format=xml . Other sites, like LifeHacker and PC World don't do it, the only thing they offer is the title, the abstract and a link to the article.– LeonardoCommented Jul 6, 2010 at 3:50
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2Well they do not have Full Text Feeds so you will have to put it through a filter fivefilters.org/content-only– phwdCommented Jul 6, 2010 at 4:10
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Lifehacker does have a full extract feed, check out: lifehacker.com/5489210/lifehacker-rss-feeds-do-a-little-dance Commented Jul 18, 2010 at 22:05
Definitely check out an experiment called Readable Feeds: http://andrewtrusty.appspot.com/readability/
Readable Feeds can filter out ads and other junk from your feeds so that you can concentrate on the content. It can even repair crippled feeds that only show small excerpts instead of the full content, saving you the time and hassle of leaving your feed reader.
Readable Feeds is brand new and there is a good chance it may fail spectacularly on some feeds. Any and all feedback would be appreciated!
answered Jul 18, 2010 at 22:06
