RSS feeds plugin - allow a small preview of the article if available

[Frankynov]

Hello,
Sorry I'm doing my features shopping 😃
Now that the RSS feed on some websites is fully working, I was wondering if we could enable a preview of the content of the feed articles ?
This is honestly the last feature that I miss from TRMNL, which has quite an elegant way to display it. Here is a screenshot of the rendering on my E1001

Thank you !

[dmellok]

Built it, in v0.273.0 (edge).

The RSS widget has a new Article preview option: off, or 1 to 3 lines of the article summary under each headline. Off by default so existing dashboards don't shift.

It reads the summary the feed already publishes (description on RSS, summary or content on Atom), so there are no extra requests and no fetching of article pages. HTML gets stripped and entities decoded before it reaches the panel.

Two things worth knowing:

At 800x480, two-line previews fit about three items, so drop Max headlines when you turn it on or the rest clips off the bottom.

A few feeds put navigation in the description rather than prose (Hacker News ships "Article URL: ... Comments URL: ..."). Those show no preview rather than a row of bare URLs, so if a particular feed stays headline-only that's why.

Let me know how it looks on the E1001, particularly whether 2 lines is the right amount at that size.

[jomud9]

I am not sure if we need another widget for processing text information from our weather observatory.
3 lines might be not enough for such use.

Original text:

Source rss: https://rss.weather.gov.hk/rss/WeatherWarningBulletin.xml