Full-text RSS bookmarklet

By Justin | Published: May 12, 2008

This site offers a nifty utility for dealing with those annoying sites which offer only partial text content in their RSS and Atom feeds.

Given an RSS or Atom feed’s URL, the CGI will iterate through the posts in the feed, scrape the full text of each post from its HTML page, and re-generate a new RSS feed containing the full text.

The one thing it’s missing is a one-click bookmarklet version. So here it is:

Full-text RSS Bookmarklet

Drag that to your bookmarks menu, and next time you’re looking at a partial-text feed, click the bookmark to transform the viewed page into the full-text version. Enjoy!

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7 Comments

  1. Chris
    Posted May 12, 2008 at 10:29 | Permalink

    Nice spot! Thanks!

    Have you given up on AIM these days ?

  2. Justin
    Posted May 12, 2008 at 11:28 | Permalink

    hi Chris! nope, just forgot to log in recently ;)

  3. Kevin Hill
    Posted September 17, 2008 at 17:12 | Permalink

    doesn’t work for bink.nu. :(

  4. Keyvan
    Posted July 5, 2009 at 04:04 | Permalink

    I recently created a similar service (along with a bookmarklet for it). If anyone’s interested, click my name to try it out. It’s a free software (open source) project so code is also available.

  5. Justin Mason
    Posted July 5, 2009 at 08:47 | Permalink

    looks excellent, Keyvan! I’ll linkblog that later…

  6. nixanbal
    Posted July 21, 2009 at 08:55 | Permalink

    Hello,

    so how could I change the code of the RSS feeds from my site in order to show full articles?

    Could you please help me?

  7. Justin
    Posted July 21, 2009 at 10:03 | Permalink

    hi nixanbal — it’s really quite complicated and dependent on the weblog software you use! I’m sorry, I can’t suggest anything useful…