Readability support

[kavillock]

it's posible to add readability feature? (full article plus cleanup) to FRSS? eg arc90 readibility (or smilar?) or readability.com api (but second its buggy, dont support srcset)

[Alkarex]

Hello,
Are we talking about a new "share with" entry?
If yes, see an example 9b842f9

[GreenLunar]

I think @kavillock is referring to Arc90 Readability algorithm. See https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla-plugins/wiki/Readability

[kavillock]

yes, i referring to Arc90 Readability algorithm.

[ghost]

Hi, anything new about readability support ?
Have you @Alkarex ever heard about https://github.com/andreskrey/readability.php ?
Thanks

[aledeg]

When you're thinking of that feature, what exactly do you have in mind?
Do you want a toggle like in Firefox bar?
If so, do you want to toggle one article, all articles, other?
Do you want to store modified data in the database?

[Frenzie]

Maybe automatic custom article CSS or something?

[ghost]

Oops, maybe I was not understandable.
To sum up, the idea behind the "readability" is to retrieve an item from an RSS feed integrally.
It's already implemented as a plugin in tt-rss.

Example : the first screenshot is my ttrss instance with af_readability enabled : the article is full (it continues lower, until its end) and at the bottom it is my FreshRSS one looking at the same article.

[Frenzie]

Right, so it's basically an automated attempt at Articles CSS path on original website.

[Alkarex]

For reference, the current system that we have (not as good, but does the job):

• https://freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/fr/users/05_Configuration.html#r%C3%A9cup%C3%A9rer-un-flux-tronqu%C3%A9
• https://freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/users/05_Configuration.html#retrieve-a-truncated-stream

Related issues:

• [improvement] full article content by fivefilter rules #947
• full article content #785
• [Request] Wiki : utiliser le CSS pour texte complet #199

[Frenzie]

not as good

Indeed. It's much better. \m/

(Not really kidding. Automatic is cool and all when it works… Anyway, no reason we can't have both I reckon.)

[helmut72]

https://freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/users/05_Configuration.html#retrieve-a-truncated-stream

Thanks, but I don't get it. What filter do I need for following page?
http://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/management/daimler-bmw-telekom-deutschlands-konzerne-sind-so-profitabel-wie-nie/21107000.html

[Frenzie]

@helmut72 Presumably .container_onecolumn_read.

[helmut72]

Thank you, but it doesn't work. Looks like their default RSS:

Is the feed updated immediately or do I have the possibility to add a CSS Path before FreshRSS fetches the content for the first time?

[helmut72]

Is the feed updated immediately or do I have the possibility to add a CSS Path before FreshRSS fetches the content for the first time?

Answering my own question. Looks like the feeds will be loaded immediately and it's not possible the set the CSS Path before loading. The newer articles over the night are now correct! It should be possible to test the CSS Path before. Some of me feeds are updated only weekly.

[cwmke]

I was just messing around with feedbin and they have a button you click per article that uses the recently open sourced Mercury Parser that seems to work great. I like individual article parsing but whole feed parsing is useful as well.

[math-GH]

How is the status here?
When I use the "Reading View" than Firefox displays the button to switch to the build in Reader View

[math-GH]

ping @kavillock
Is it still an issue/feature request?

[printfuck]

I still consider it a nice feature, since debugging css filters on steadily changing site layouts is tiring after some time.

Some time ago I've built a small solution as a plugin, but didn't publish it. I've cleaned it up a bit, but it still relies on modifying the source for it to work with selected sites.

https://git.eris.cc/a3x/readability-addon

I'd still prefer to add readability/mercury support as an option in the feed-configuration menu, but I wouldn't want to force this on any maintainer - especially, if this it's relying wholy on some specialised docker image/software porject, that you don't have any control over.

Instead I'd advocate to add an extension hook, which would allow an extension to add options to each feed-configuration page - would that be possible?
The other way around would be: listing all feeds inside the extension's configuration page and selecting each feed that should be manipulated/modified - but I don't know how to go on about this. (If you could tell me how/if that ould work, I'd work on that)

Kind regards and thanks for your work.
(Sorry for necrobumping this issue)

[Frenzie]

Instead I'd advocate to add an extension hook, which would allow an extension to add options to each feed-configuration page - would that be possible?

I think that's menu_configuration_entry? Can't check atm. :-)

[printfuck]

I think that's menu_configuration_entry? Can't check atm. :-)

To my knowledge this refers to the main Configuration Menu (Display, Reading, Archiving, ... ). I specifically meant to add an option to the settings of each feed - not another global menu.

If there only was an example of how this hook can be used :)

[Frenzie]

Well, if it's missing it's something that'd make sense to add. ;-)

[printfuck]

Hi again.

I'd like to submit my extension, so this issue can finally get resolved. I made it usable and it works as one would expect it to do.

https://github.com/printfuck/xExtension-Readable

I will probably work on it, so it can be controlled from the main configuration menu, but until then it can be easily configured from the extension's config.

I'd go on submit a pull request against the extension repo, provided there is no reason against it.

[Alkarex]

Thanks @printfuck 👍🏻