Feed Creator 1.2: merge and filter feeds
The new version of our Feed Creator application is now available. Feed Creator started life as a tool letting you create feeds for sites which don’t offer their own.
The new version of our Feed Creator application is now available. Feed Creator started life as a tool letting you create feeds for sites which don’t offer their own.
The new version of our Full-Text RSS application is now available. Full-Text RSS is our article extraction and partial-to-full-text feed conversion tool. You can try it out now, or read on to find out what’s new. This is mostly a maintenance release, with a few new features.
Yesterday we started appending a section to the end of all Guardian articles processed by Push to Kindle–our service which converts and sends web articles to Kindle devices. The new section is there to highlight criticism and recent revelations about the Guardian that our users might not have come across. It includes links to articles from Medialens, Nafeez Ahmed, and Jonathan Cook.
We’re working on a new tool called Simple Print. It converts web articles into printable PDFs. It’s an extension of our PDF Newspaper application and will most likely be part of the next PDF Newspaper release.
As many of our users know, Full-Text RSS, our article extraction tool, relies on a number of site-specific extraction rules which we maintain in our GitHub repository.
These extraction rules were initially imported from Instapaper (before it was sold, when they were still publicly available). And since then we’ve done our best to update them and have received many contributions from our users (thank you!).
The new version of our Full-Text RSS application is now available. Full-Text RSS is our article extraction and partial-to-full-text-feed conversion application. You can try it out now, or read on to find out what’s new.
Our Full-Text RSS application can extract article content in web pages through a combination of automatic content detection and site-specific extraction rules.
When a user encounters a problem extracting content from a particular site, we usually point them to our help page for writing custom extraction rules. That can not only be quite time consuming, but to do it, we assume users have an understanding of HTML and XPath.
The new version of Full-Text RSS, our tool to extract article content from web pages and transform partial web feeds into full-text feeds, is now available to try and buy. A few of the main changes are described below.
We’re getting ready to release the new version of Full-Text RSS, our tool to extract article content from web pages and transform partial web feeds into full-text feeds.
Later in the year we will discontinue our Reading List service in favour of Wallabag.