Integrate Readability

[idx3d]

Hello. How about integrate readability to able view all article content? And add it to readability.

[Zegnat]

[…] able to view all article content?

There is a button for this, but currently no option to turn it on by default:

You can also toggle this by pressing c on your keyboard. It will extract the article text from the linked webpage. See the blogpost on entry text extraction.

And add it to readability.

Please read the blog for how sharing works. You can add this to your sharing preferences to send articles to Readability:

Label	URL
Readability	https://www.readability.com/save?url=${url}

(For more sharing services, see the wiki.)

[idx3d]

@Zegnat thanks. But looks like this works not correctly: it show (no content) in most cases. And sometimes replace original article by comments.

[Zegnat]

There might be problems, Feedbin uses Pismo and this is not perfect yet. You could write about failing feeds in issue #35 or create an issue with Pismo at their issue tracker.

In #35 @benubois has shown interest in inspecting alternative readers and talks about a new version of Pismo (I don’t know if this update has happened already). There isn’t a lot of choice though, the big players Readability and Instapaper use their own algorithms for extracting content and those are not open-source.

[rodalpho]

Open-source or not, Mr. Reader for ipad somehow allows exactly that function. Pocket, too.

[Zegnat]

[…] Mr. Reader for iPad somehow allows exactly that function.

You mean the buttons shown at the top here?

Do those display within Mr. Reader though, or do they just send you to the named apps? Feedbin can do the latter, but it will be very hard to implement anything else. These services make it their business to extract text for you, so they are not all too keen when it comes to sharing their wisdom.

• Instapaper has /api/1/bookmarks/get_text but that requires a bookmark ID. If Feedbin wants to use that it would have to turn into a full-fledged Instapaper client to know what bookmark IDs go with what feed items. Or at the least it would need to add everything you want to view to your Instapaper account first, then request it, and then remove it again. That’s a lot of work when you only want to extract article content. (API)
• Pocket has /v3/get which can be filtered by domain but that is all. So Feedbin still needs to wade through everything you have Pocket-ed for that domain before it can find the text. If it doesn’t find it it will need to add it, request it, and remove it again. Much like Instapaper above. (API: Retrieve)

• Pocket also has a thing called ‘Article View’, but only for ‘partners’ or ‘full-fledged Pocket clients’. Note:

  If you are looking for a general text parser or to provide "read now" functionality in your app - we do not currently support that.

• Readability is the odd one out. It provides access to ‘the web’s most powerful content parser’. However: on ‘a limited basis’ and for non-commercial use only.

I can’t imagine how Mr. Reader is doing it. Maybe it is using the web based versions (e.g. Instapaper’s /text). Maybe it has licensed APIs. Either way, I don’t think much of this is feasible within Feedbin’s current game plan.

I bet @benubois is willing to look into any extraction system he can plug-in, but these are hardly plug’n’play.

[rodalpho]

Yes, those buttons. It does indeed integrate with Pocket, Instapaper, etc, inside the Mr. Reader frame there. It doesn't send you to the named apps.

The way it works is that the user can decide which parser shows the feed in the best possible way-- showing the full feed, images resized properly, ads removed, etc. Then you tap the little lock icon and it always shows that individual feed using that parser. So I have The Verge locked to Pocket, and it always uses pocket to show The Verge entries. It works great and is truly a killer feature-- it's the main reason why Mr. Reader is the best feed reader app in the world. This page explains it too.

http://www.candlerblog.com/2012/08/24/mr-reader-update/

I don't know how Mr. Reader does it, but if you have an iPad I strongly suggest picking it up. According to their blog entry today, it will support feedbin in version 2 due later this month. That is why I signed up to feedbin the same day.

[idx3d]

I use reeder on my iPod, it's very suitable. I subscribe for feedbin, because reeder choose it for main aggregator. Reeder supports Readability and can show full article.

[benubois]

Feedbin has switched from Pismo to Readability.

[idx3d]

Thank you!