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Re:Full Text RSS Feed: Get the whole feed and nothing but th... by spidaman on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @06:48PM (#2277808)
Does this work for anybody? I've plugged in 3 feeds, one was "unable to retrieve full-text content" (an sfgate.com feed) and the other two returned nothing at all in the preview (one a feed from kqed.org, the other an older wordpress blog).
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Re:Full Text RSS Feed: Get the whole feed and nothing but th... by guptaneil on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @07:29PM (#2277936)
The preview for Lifehacker returned nothing at all, but adding the feed to Google Reader worked as advertised. I guess, don't rely on the preview box.
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Re:Full Text RSS Feed: Get the whole feed and nothing but th... by matsur on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @10:12PM (#2278301)
This may be common knowledge, but all gawker blogs are available in full feed, ad free form at <gawker entity>.com/vip.xml

i.e. http://lifehacker.com/vip.xml

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Re:Full Text RSS Feed: Get the whole feed and nothing but th... by yahelc on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @11:00PM (#2278394)
Ah, I see I'm not the first to point this out :)
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Re:Full Text RSS Feed: Get the whole feed and nothing but th... by ericgs on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @06:50PM (#2277815)
Funny, I just added sfgate too and it worked for me: fulltextrssfeed.com/www.sfgate.com/rss/feeds/news.xml
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Re:Full Text RSS Feed: Get the whole feed and nothing but th... by spidaman on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @07:04PM (#2277849)
Hrm, that one loads fine... but fulltextrssfeed.com/www.sfgate.com/rss/feeds/blogs/sfgate/offtherecord/index_rss2.xml fails with "unable to retrieve full-text content" and fulltextrssfeed.com/www.kqed.org/rss/arts.xml fails with "Unable to parse this page for content."

I have a lot of experience with fetching and parsing feeds and pages, so I'm not trivializing the problem, just observing issues I'm seeing with this solution.

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Re:Full Text RSS Feed: Get the whole feed and nothing but th... by timrosenblatt on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @06:51PM (#2277816)
works for me. did you test out the default CNN feed? does that work?
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