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I used to do this. A long time ago, I had a setup that would sync feeds from BBC, CNN, Janes [0], and a few other places; extract and sanitize [1] the text of t

I used to do this. A long time ago, I had a setup that would sync feeds from BBC, CNN, Janes [0], and a few other places; extract and sanitize [1] the text of the articles for the previous day; and ultimately prepare a nicely typeset, five column, landscape oriented PDF. It took some trial and error to get something usable, but the printed result was a pleasant way to stay informed. That was many moons ago. --- [0] Circa 2008, I could find several feeds from Janes that carried meaty non-subscriber extracts. [1] LaTeX is picky about all sorts of "special" characters that are more common than one might expect.

flandish 4y ago
Cool to know! It’s a low prio project for me for sure, but good to know it’s been done. Finding “full articles” is certainly a pain. I have little idea how reeder does it.
- kmstout 4y ago
  In many cases, following the links in the item entries will get you full text. Just to get something going quickly, you can do a `links -dump <url>` to get just text and then cut it down with some bash-fu. That said, if you pull a lot from a given source, it's worth figuring out a reliable way of cracking out the title and text so you can format them sensibly.