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Read More (than a summary)

Chris Punke
suggested this on November 22, 2010 11:52 am

If one of our RSS feeds is set to display a summary only, the content displayed is useless.

 

With the <link> node being ignored by Appmakr, there is no way to link out to read the full article, unless it's added manually to an RSS feed.

 

Most RSS feed readers make the title a link at the least... Which would be great, but I'd be happy with a "Read More >>>" call to action at the end of the summary.

 

Can this be changed?

 

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Rami Sageer

@Diana

Thanks for sharing the PIPE with me, I've been trying for the last 2 days but no success so far. 

If you can tell me what to do I would it would be much easier for me. Thanks again.

 

@Frank

I found 'http://fulltextrssfeed.com' realy helpful and easy to work with, 

but it doesn't convert all the feed items and it adds an advertisement link on each item.

So I'm back to yahoo pipes. Could you plz help me with it.

 

Here is the feed that I'm working on:

http://www.sabq.org/sabq/user/rss.do?cat=articles

 

Regards

Rami

April 27, 2011 04:42 pm
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Franck Sidon
There are easier ways now. Take a look at http://fulltextrssfeed.com/ for example.
April 26, 2011 08:42 am
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Rami Sageer

Hi Diana,

Thank you so much for the quick reply, I'll have a look know

Regards

Rami

April 26, 2011 08:25 am
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Diana de Avila

Here is the URL to a PIPE I created:  let me know if this helps you,

April 26, 2011 07:24 am
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Diana de Avila

Here is the URL to a PIPE I created:  let me know if this helps you,

April 26, 2011 07:24 am
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Diana de Avila

@Rami, I have been out of this for months!  I will have to give it a look later and get back in touch.  Maybe Franck will beat me to it.

April 26, 2011 07:22 am
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Rami Sageer

@Frank, @Diana, Would you mind sharing your solution here plz.

I'm trying to convert partial RSS feeds to full text feeds. I've searched a lot about this but so far no success.

April 26, 2011 07:15 am
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Lindsey Harper

ok I have a problem with feeds showing the full content. I need to be able to show titles of posts, and partial content ONLY withe a link to "read more" that takes users to the publishers website.

 

the issues is that content generators do not like that I have an application that shows their full feed, they get no traffic that way?

 

any way to fix this in the existing system?

April 09, 2011 08:31 pm
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Geoffrey

Hi Franck, Would you mind sharing your pipe settings again?  I would like to see what you've done with this.  Thanks

February 15, 2011 03:49 am
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Geoffrey

Hi Franck, Would you mind sharing your pipe settings again?  I would like to see what you've done with this.  Thanks

February 15, 2011 03:48 am
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Diana de Avila

BINGO, thank you Franck! :)

November 25, 2010 01:14 pm
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Franck Sidon

Select the text you want to extract. Right click and select inspect element. A new window will appear with the dom at the right position. I don't think it requires any extension :)

November 25, 2010 12:45 pm
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Diana de Avila

Franck, that you for so graciously sharing your pipe with me.  I have one final question:  I'm new to Chrome (somewhat new) and have searched extensions, etc.  How do I access inspector to find the appropriate open / close tags for my feed.

I have seen people referencing it as a pop-up, but I cannot find it -- I am using OS X 6.5 -- nothing called inspector.  I can view source, but this does not show what I need (no span tags, etc) just the output as it is.  I'm usually good at this stuff   :)

Thanks again!

November 25, 2010 12:33 pm
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Franck Sidon

@diana you are right pipes are tricky. Go check the ones I use at http://pipes.yahoo.com/francks. You need to find out open and close tags that identify the content you want to extract. I use Chrome and the inspect feature to do that. You also need to figure out how much formatting you want to leave in the hmtl content. You can be more or less aggressive there (check the regex modules). I hope it helps. 

November 24, 2010 11:45 pm
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Diana de Avila

@Franck -- I spent some time searching and trying to play with some of the source on various pipes that offered "full text".  Have you found one that works?  Most of them depend on some XML tags for a beginning - end post.  I just can't seem to get one to work (I tried several with different feeds). 

Have you figured this out successfully, and if so ... would you be able to share with us?

Thanks!

November 24, 2010 08:46 pm
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Franck Sidon

Another option is to use a Yahoo Pipe to convert your partial RSS feeds to full text feeds. Do a search on Yahoo pipes for some samples...

November 24, 2010 01:21 pm
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Diana de Avila

Ahhhh Adam, I get it!   It isn't something you are doing yourself yet ... you are asking AppMakr to add the functionality.  DOH!

November 23, 2010 10:44 am
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Diana de Avila

@Adam, can you explain this -- or show me.  What do you mean add a link to the title????  I'm missing it.

November 23, 2010 10:43 am
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Adam Warner

@Chris,

I agree 100%, please add the link to the title.

November 23, 2010 10:30 am
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Diana de Avila
@Chris, I miss the clickable header too, but i know my users can click out and view the story in their browser. They can even send it in an email. I agree, the headers do LOOK like links and it's does seem like they should click out to an expanded version of the story.
November 22, 2010 09:22 pm