Re: is there a truly offline feed reader?
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:09:21 -0700 Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:25:49PM +0200, Leonardo Canducci leonardo.candu...@gmail.com was heard to say: Liferea is not, at least when a feed shows only a few lines and links to the true article, and so other popular readers. AFAIK Straw was the only one truly offline reader but it's broken (in sid). Even google reader + gears can't fetch articles linked from a feed like that: http://osnews.com/story/22145/Linux_2_6_31_Released which has only a small part/abstract of the article. In such case you have to be online to read the full article even when all feeds are synced/refreshed. Am I missing something or there is no such software? I finally used rss2email when I had this problem. I don't think it handles situations where the author hid the article behind a link, though. I was intrigued by the problem, and as a learning exercise I decided to write an offline feed aggregator. I'm continually amazed at how easy it is with Perl to get other people to do the heavy lifting for you (thanks Larry and all the other Perl conributors)! And so I present to you Foffl (Alpha) v0.1: https://sourceforge.net/projects/foffl/ It's not yet the most usable thing around, but it does seem to work, at least on the dozer or so example feeds (RSS and Atom) that I've tested it on. Feedback (no pun intended) welcome! [Note that this helps for the case where the feed doesn't include the full entry content, but the webpage pointed to by the feed's link does. It won't help for the case where the linked webpage itself doesn't contain the full content, just a second link to that content. Accomplishing that would seem to require scraping, a tedious task that must be done separately for each site, and yielding very fragile results.[ Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: is there a truly offline feed reader?
On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 22:25 +0200, Leonardo Canducci wrote: Liferea is not, at least when a feed shows only a few lines and links to the true article, and so other popular readers. Bug is with the feed, not the feed reader. Try asking the sites you frequent to provide a complete feed rather than expecting your feed reader to also be a browser. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: is there a truly offline feed reader?
Leonardo Canducci wrote: Liferea is not, at least when a feed shows only a few lines and links to the true article, and so other popular readers. AFAIK Straw was the only one truly offline reader but it's broken (in sid). Even google reader + gears can't fetch articles linked from a feed like that: http://osnews.com/story/22145/Linux_2_6_31_Released which has only a small part/abstract of the article. In such case you have to be online to read the full article even when all feeds are synced/refreshed. Am I missing something or there is no such software? With Thunderbird you can get full page or just summery. Just go to File-New-Account-RSS News Blogs Default action is full page. -- Bye, Goran Dobosevic Hrvatski: www.dobosevic.com English: www.dobosevic.com/en/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: is there a truly offline feed reader?
2009/9/11 S. Fishpaste s...@deer-in-the-headlights.ca.invalid: On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:25:49 +0200, Leonardo Canducci in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: Liferea is not, at least when a feed shows only a few lines and links to the true article, and so other popular readers. AFAIK Straw was the only one truly offline reader but it's broken (in sid). Even google reader + gears can't fetch articles linked from a feed like that: http://osnews.com/story/22145/Linux_2_6_31_Released which has only a small part/abstract of the article. In such case you have to be online to read the full article even when all feeds are synced/refreshed. Am I missing something or there is no such software? Leafnode + (perferred newsreader) or slrnpull + slrn Isn't that NNTP stuff? I'm looking for an RSS feed reader. -- Leonardo Canducci -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: is there a truly offline feed reader?
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:43:20 +0200, Leonardo Canducci in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: 2009/9/11 S. Fishpaste s...@deer-in-the-headlights.ca.invalid: On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:25:49 +0200, Leonardo Canducci in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: Liferea is not, at least when a feed shows only a few lines and links to the true article, and so other popular readers. AFAIK Straw was the only one truly offline reader but it's broken (in sid). Even google reader + gears can't fetch articles linked from a feed like that: http://osnews.com/story/22145/Linux_2_6_31_Released which has only a small part/abstract of the article. In such case you have to be online to read the full article even when all feeds are synced/refreshed. Am I missing something or there is no such software? Leafnode + (perferred newsreader) or slrnpull + slrn Isn't that NNTP stuff? I'm looking for an RSS feed reader. Yeah I guess being tired is my excuse; for some reason I keyed in on feed in the subject and completely missed your reference to GReader. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: is there a truly offline feed reader?
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:25:49PM +0200, Leonardo Canducci leonardo.candu...@gmail.com was heard to say: Liferea is not, at least when a feed shows only a few lines and links to the true article, and so other popular readers. AFAIK Straw was the only one truly offline reader but it's broken (in sid). Even google reader + gears can't fetch articles linked from a feed like that: http://osnews.com/story/22145/Linux_2_6_31_Released which has only a small part/abstract of the article. In such case you have to be online to read the full article even when all feeds are synced/refreshed. Am I missing something or there is no such software? I finally used rss2email when I had this problem. I don't think it handles situations where the author hid the article behind a link, though. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: is there a truly offline feed reader?
i faced this annoyance too... maybe someone has to put his hands on it... caching the pages feeds are referring too has to be quite an hard job, with all references in contemporary html pages, and framing... once i tried to wgetting the feed page but these problems stopped my trials On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 17:57, S. Fishpaste s...@deer-in-the-headlights.ca.invalid wrote: On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:43:20 +0200, Leonardo Canducci in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: 2009/9/11 S. Fishpaste s...@deer-in-the-headlights.ca.invalid: On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:25:49 +0200, Leonardo Canducci in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: Liferea is not, at least when a feed shows only a few lines and links to the true article, and so other popular readers. AFAIK Straw was the only one truly offline reader but it's broken (in sid). Even google reader + gears can't fetch articles linked from a feed like that: http://osnews.com/story/22145/Linux_2_6_31_Released which has only a small part/abstract of the article. In such case you have to be online to read the full article even when all feeds are synced/refreshed. Am I missing something or there is no such software? Leafnode + (perferred newsreader) or slrnpull + slrn Isn't that NNTP stuff? I'm looking for an RSS feed reader. Yeah I guess being tired is my excuse; for some reason I keyed in on feed in the subject and completely missed your reference to GReader. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: is there a truly offline feed reader?
2009/9/11 PierPaolo pierpaolo.fra...@gmail.com: i faced this annoyance too... maybe someone has to put his hands on it... caching the pages feeds are referring too has to be quite an hard job, with all references in contemporary html pages, and framing... once i tried to wgetting the feed page but these problems stopped my trials straw used to work this way, but it's broken now and deb version seems to be the last one on developer site. -- Leonardo Canducci -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
is there a truly offline feed reader?
Liferea is not, at least when a feed shows only a few lines and links to the true article, and so other popular readers. AFAIK Straw was the only one truly offline reader but it's broken (in sid). Even google reader + gears can't fetch articles linked from a feed like that: http://osnews.com/story/22145/Linux_2_6_31_Released which has only a small part/abstract of the article. In such case you have to be online to read the full article even when all feeds are synced/refreshed. Am I missing something or there is no such software? -- Leonardo Canducci -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: is there a truly offline feed reader?
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:25:49 +0200, Leonardo Canducci in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: Liferea is not, at least when a feed shows only a few lines and links to the true article, and so other popular readers. AFAIK Straw was the only one truly offline reader but it's broken (in sid). Even google reader + gears can't fetch articles linked from a feed like that: http://osnews.com/story/22145/Linux_2_6_31_Released which has only a small part/abstract of the article. In such case you have to be online to read the full article even when all feeds are synced/refreshed. Am I missing something or there is no such software? Leafnode + (perferred newsreader) or slrnpull + slrn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
