skimpage — consume fresh and fat-free page

Posted by steverandy on Monday October 07, 2013 @10:14AM
from the skimpage.com dept.

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Re:skimpage — consume fresh and fat-free page by jboynyc on Monday October 07, 2013 @11:11AM (#6508711)

Pasted a URI, hit return, got "Processing...", then nothing further happened.

The console (Firebug on FF25) shows the following error:

    422 Unprocessable Entity
    {"error":"Could not get any feed"}

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Re:skimpage — consume fresh and fat-free page by steverandy on Monday October 07, 2013 @11:22AM (#6508789)

skimpage works by parsing feed url from a page. Not all pages include feed url unfortunately.

You can try other news website or paste feed URL directly. Then you will get something like this. http://skimpage.com/feeds/524f94b811c69d220b000001

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Re:skimpage — consume fresh and fat-free page by jboynyc on Monday October 07, 2013 @11:27AM (#6508820)

Aha. I thought it would make a single article "skimmable" -- I didn't realize this was about feeds.

At the very least it should capture the error and give some kind of feedback.

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Re:skimpage — consume fresh and fat-free page by steverandy on Monday October 07, 2013 @11:59AM (#6509085)

Added error message. Thanks!

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Re:skimpage — consume fresh and fat-free page by bowerbird on Monday October 07, 2013 @11:52AM (#6509030)

very nice. especially for a first iteration.

made kottke.org even better...

i want to see more of this.

-bowerbird

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Re:skimpage — consume fresh and fat-free page by steverandy on Monday October 07, 2013 @11:57AM (#6509074)

Thanks. I wanted to try Node.js. I thought since something like skimpage requires a lot of http calls, it will be suitable to use node.

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