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Fetch full text
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Some web sites just show the feed without much details & to view full text you need to open the link on your browser. IMO from productivity point of view it defeats the purpose of using RSS app.
Describe the solution you'd like Add an option/button to fetch full text from any feed/article.
This is not a problem of the app itself but the feeds themselves. Some news sites have a RSS feed but they don't include the body of the article in there, instead the add a summary so it will appear in news reader apps and will drive traffic to their website where they can show ads.
The only way I can come up with to circumvent this is to check if the content is empty and then perform some sort of webscrapping to get text from the original website, but this approach is full of pitfalls and problems.
If anyone has a better idea, I'd like to know! 😅
I'm not a developer & IDK how it works, maybe check how Feeder & Flym (project archived) apps work. Both support this feature.
Also have a look at this project: https://github.com/pictuga/morss
Hey the morss project is very interesting! Unfortunately it's a python server and I do not intent to host and maintain a server for the app.
On the other hand, I've been looking into the project's website and it can be used as an API if you format the URL correctly.
Now the only problem remaining would be how to determine when an article comes full or partial from the feedly api.
Since some of the feeds return all of the content in the summary key while others do it in the content.
I guess I can code something to judge by length, if the summary is too short, the chances of it being incomplete are higher and it triggers a query to the morss API to fetch the full content.
Another (maybe simpler) solution could be to use Article Parser since it's a pure JS implementation that returns the content from the article url that the app already has.
Great app for feeds I don't really care to get notified of but just look to see if there is anything of interest.
I would welcome a list view of the title of each feed and if it has a summary or article we could click on it? I do notice the title is chopped for some feeds now but I just click the square to see the title and article summary.
@HonestAbe7 You might find useful the new feature added in the latest release you can find here. Basically if you tap and hold over a tile it will show you the full title (if it fits) and a summary of the content if it's available.