Hacker News RSS Feed + Readability

by nirmal • 17 years ago

44 24 17 years ago

maarek• 17 years ago

Nice. I only follow HN in Reader, and this makes that even easier. Thanks a lot. Now if we could only get full feeds from the NYTimes...

nirmal9• 17 years ago

Same for me. This combined with the Google Reader keyboard shortcuts makes it much easier and faster to go through HN content.

nirmal9• 17 years ago

Now that this made it to the front page, I just realized that the page content is not pulled correctly by the Python. :)

The Readability bookmarklet seems to do it just fine. I will need to investigate.

It seems to work fine with most blogging systems. I don't use one. I use Markdown, Python and rsync.

UPDATE: I received a request to add a Comments link to the top and did that. Makes sense if you like to check the comments before deciding what's worth reading. It will probably take a while before the code is reloaded.

sidsavara2• 17 years ago

Awesome! Thanks Nirmal! Talk about customer service.

Now, if only it had better twitter integration ...

SomeIdiot• 17 years ago

Yeah, apostrophes seem to turn into some wierd jumble (e.g. â€™) and so do other charaters. Aside from that, very nice work. Added to my reader.

nirmal9• 17 years ago

Any clues as to why that happens? The code simply inserts the HTML of the content sections of the linked sites into the RSS feed. It doesn't seem to happen with all sites.

mikecuesta• 17 years ago

This is great, thanks so much for this!

jjames2• 17 years ago

Is there any concern here for the missed click-throughs for content creators for purposes of metrics and/or advertising revenue?

I've not been in a situation to have to worry about either but I know that site owners make a conscious decision when they formulate the contents of their own RSS feeds. Some clearly don't want to provide all the goods in feed readers without an ad stream to compliment it.

I haven't gone through a lot of the feed yet so I apologize if I am missing some way you've already addressed this.

Regardless, Thanks! I really appreciate this feed.

nirmal9• 17 years ago

I suppose I could try to go to each linked article and find their RSS feed and see if they normally expose the content but that seems quite complicated. I don't know if missed click-throughs is why pg doesn't do something similar for the existing HN rss feed. I suspect that it's hard to make it always have the correct content. This is clearly evident in the fact that my page doesn't get parsed correctly. :)

brandnewlow3• 17 years ago

"...that seems quite complicated."

That doesn't mean you shouldn't do it. I see you're a PhD student. What if I wrote a program that would let people republish your research in full without your prior consent? Yes, I could add a feature that limits this program to only working with research that's been approved for it, but that seems quite complicated.

This Readbility service is wrong. I guess that's why it's popular?

jjames2• 17 years ago

I'm not super familiar with pg's RSS feed but doesn't it just provide a link to the article? That doesn't bypass the click-through to the content provider. It encourages it, just like the HN homepage.

djhomeless• 17 years ago

Wow, combining my favorite bookmarklet with my favorite news site. Well done!

nirmal9• 17 years ago

I just replied to an email about my server hanging when trying to retrieve the python code. If you have a similar problem just email me I will reply and attach the code.

Email address and twitter are in my profile.

Also, any fixes are much appreciated. Patch file not required. I've gotten a few emails that just show me where I should add code and why. :)

adrianwaj• 17 years ago

Check out: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=672ce7db13a3ac1ec...

nirmal9• 17 years ago

There seems to be a lot of extraneous HTML and CSS in the feed. Good to know about pipes though.

hsvieira• 17 years ago

As also pointed out by BeaufifulSoup's author, I would suggest you to use lxml (http://codespeak.net/lxml/). It is much faster. I've migrated a couple of my projects to it.

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