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Apr. 2nd, 2008 10:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zwolI'm trying out this RSS feed-reader thing for the first time in years and years — I tried it in maybe 2002? and it didn't do what I wanted and I gave up. It still doesn't really do what I want, but it's a whole lot closer now, to the point where maybe it's worth trying to find add-on solutions.
My use case is pretty simple. I want the feed-reader to replace the list of bookmarked blogs and webcomics that I check obsessively, so that the computer is doing the obsessive checking for me. For this to work, it's got to replace the entire list, otherwise I'll just keep obsessively checking the ones that aren't included. Also, all the content that I want to read needs to show up in the feed-reader, because clicking through is slow and requires me to mentally context switch over to web-browsing. Thus, I have two problems: sites with no RSS feed, and sites that provide title-only or first-paragraph-only feeds.
It seems to me that there ought to be feed-readers or feed-reader plugins out there that can compensate for these, by screen-scraping sites with no RSS feeds and/or chasing links from sites with incomplete-content RSS feeds. Can anyone recommend such devices?
(Also, is there any way to get an LJ basic account's friends page, with locked posts, as RSS? No, I am not willing to give LJ either money or ads.)
My use case is pretty simple. I want the feed-reader to replace the list of bookmarked blogs and webcomics that I check obsessively, so that the computer is doing the obsessive checking for me. For this to work, it's got to replace the entire list, otherwise I'll just keep obsessively checking the ones that aren't included. Also, all the content that I want to read needs to show up in the feed-reader, because clicking through is slow and requires me to mentally context switch over to web-browsing. Thus, I have two problems: sites with no RSS feed, and sites that provide title-only or first-paragraph-only feeds.
It seems to me that there ought to be feed-readers or feed-reader plugins out there that can compensate for these, by screen-scraping sites with no RSS feeds and/or chasing links from sites with incomplete-content RSS feeds. Can anyone recommend such devices?
(Also, is there any way to get an LJ basic account's friends page, with locked posts, as RSS? No, I am not willing to give LJ either money or ads.)
