Feed Circuit and the NY Times
 

At present, I browse the NY Times on-line using the included RSS reader to download the articles. I was going to buy an Ipod Touch, just to get the NY Times app that lets you download a text version of the NY Times for offline reading. The RSS reader included with OS2008 can not do this, but other RSS readers can cache the articles for later viewing. However, this has not worked with the NY Times, as many of their articles are multi-page, and the readers only bring down the first page. This is not a problem for on-line viewing, as you can select the apropriate link to bring down the next page.

Then I noticed Feed Circuit (http://maemo.org/downloads/OS2008/) a few weeks ago, and my problem was solved. The latest version (0.6.8-1) has the ability to add a link to the next page, so it brings down the RSS feed, PLUS the next page. For the NY Times, set the link to the next page as "PRINT". Feedcircuit will bring down the first page (with all the pictures and graphics), plus it will also cache the complete text version of the article. (To access the text version, just scroll down to the end of the first page, and press the "PRINT" link.)

Howard

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Yes, Feed Circuit is great. The author is extremely responsive to suggestions, and he worked with me to find a solution for NYT reading.

One problem I found with caching the NYT articles using the urls found in the RSS feed was that I was getting a lot of cached pages that were actually the advertisements NYT wants you to view before going to the article.

I solved this problem thus: enter the google mobile proxy into "Reformatting service url" field under EDIT > CONTENT SETTINGS. Google and NYT have an arrangement, and you will be brought directly to the article without having to look at an ad. (This works 99% of the time.) Then, to get a full-page version cached, enter "single page" in the "Printable version link" settings field. And then voila, full NYT at your finger tips.

Feed Circuit is now virtually the only program I use on the tablet (since I bought it to have mobile access to news and blogs). I can cache the full page of a blog post (with comments!) by using skweezer and google proxy, and get every article from NYT RSS feeds.

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Could you post the string for the Google Mobile proxy? This sounds awesome!

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You can find more information at Feed Circuit's Homepage.

The google proxy to enter is: http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=%s

The skweezer proxy is: http://www.skweezer.com/s.aspx?q=%s

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You can also use "SINGLE PAGE" instead of PRINT, as poster lm2 indicated. This will bring down the graphics again, but it has the advantage of not bringing down the article again if it is only a one page article. Using PRINT always brings down a text version.

Howard

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Would you mind posting the relevent lines from your feedcircuit config?

Thanks!

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I don't have my NIT with me today. But can I ask why you need the config lines? Is it because you don't know how to enter it via the UI? Are you missing the little icon's on the left of the window that pops up when you selected Edit feed? Click on the icons. You'll see the fields we're referencing.

Re: Feed Circuit: A great offline news feed reader
 

I just wanted to update you guys about the great things going on on the front of offline news feed readers for Maemo, while I wait for inputs from my boss for the proposal we are working on right now. If you are tired of anything else for offline reading, then I would suggest you go for feedcircuit. Feedcircuit is a great application and the developer is developing at a rapid pace that you will see many more improvements in near future.

Right now, FC can:

• import and export feeds in OMPL format
• allow choosing additional pages in the news article
• launch external browser for viewing feeds and full articles
• remember login settings of individual sites
• keep news for a predetermined time
• select individual feeds for selective refresh
• chose the location to store cache
• delete cache.

I am hopeful that the developer will add many other features including:

• automatic refreshing and timed refreshing
• ability to select individual news items
• a repository for old news items
• a desktop applet showing the latest news.

All the best.

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Seriously...THANK YOU!!!

There have been a few other RSS readers that attempted to do this, but you finally nailed it! Just create a web-page and let MicroB to the heavy lifting. Brilliant! I finally have a decent offline news-reader. The filters is an exceptional bonus as well!

Well, I guess I don't have to monkey with plucker or httrack anymore. Thanks again!

- Jim

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Has anybody gotten the Slate Magazine RSS feed to work with Feed Circuit?

I've tried inputting the "official" link (http://www.slate.com/rss/) and the error message I'm getting is "Cannot discover feed at given url HTTP Error 400: Bad Request"

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Will check it over the weekend and let you know if it works;)

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I appreciate it!

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Yeah, slate doesn't seem to be working for me either.

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You just need to enter http://www.slate.com as the url and FC would discover the feed.
The only problem you'll get is that FC is not able to cache all pages of articles because there is no url such as "next page". I think I'll add ability to use "view as single page" link to the next FC version.

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Hm... FC cannot parse slate's feed. I'll check what is wrong.

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NY Times has a very clean address for on-line mobile access:
http://mobile.nytimes.com
but it do not works with Feed Circuits since it has no RSS Feed.

It should very nice if FC could work like AvantGo for general pages and also for such "mobiles pages".

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Yes, it does work. See my earlier post.

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No luck here. I was not able to have it working with the RSS of NYTimes. Two problems asking for help:
1 - Only the page with headlines was saved.
2 - App. Manager stays stuck and does not download it after uninstallation. Should I remove the files still present after uninstallation in .../.config/feedcircuit/ ?

Re: Feed Circuit and the NY Times
 

1 - Did you click on the headline? Try these settings:

url: http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/US.xml

content: Cache

Reformatting service url (which is found by clicking icon to the right of the "Content" field): http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=%s

Printable verson link: single page

Then set Feed Circuit working. When it's done, double tap on the "NYT >US" line, and then tap on one of the headlines.

I'm not sure what you're second question is. Are you asking about how to uninstall feedcircuit all together?

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Thanks lm2. Now it works very well.

The second question: I was able to solve it just now when I tried about several times to download feedcircuit until it worked. I had uninstalled it and could not download it again. Solved.

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FeedCircuit 0.7.2 is released.
slate.com must work fine now. To achieve best results you need to change some content settings: set "Single page" to "view as single page" and "Content tag" to "div id=article_body".

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Thank you for this update--slate.com works perfectly! It is just in time to keep me occupied on my next transatlantic flight.

This promises to be a killer app for my tablet--allowing me to read off-line any on-line magazine or whatever that I don't have time to read when I'm on-line. Certainly this is a much better solution than slate's e-mail service, which only e-mails me the first two paragraphs of a story and then forces me to link to the website.

One question--is it always better to enter the main website and allow the application to find the news feed instead of entering the feed address directly? (For example, it doesn't work if you try the slate xml address, but it works if you just enter slate.com)

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Actually, entering feed's url directly must work, but, for some reason, this doesn't work with slate.com and I'm going to figure out what is wrong.

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hi how do you change the content settings-i cannot find it with emelFM2 WHICH DIRECTORY do i look in cheers edward

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I meant content settings in user interface. They are accessible via button on the right of "Content" combobox on the feed's settings dialog.

P.S. you may also try /home/user/.config/feedcircuit/config :)

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I'd like to make the Feed Circuit pages white text on a black background. I suspect that there is a way to do this with userContent.css. Does anybody know how?

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Some of my questions about setting up a userConent.css file were answered here:

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...399#post239399

Might be worth posting your inquiry there.

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Thanks lm2. I figured out how to get the pages to display with white text on a black background:

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Thanks bluechalk. Looking forward to seeing how this looks!

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I've just updated FC documentation at http://feedcircuit.garage.maemo.org. There is a paragraph about customizing appearance with style sheets etc.

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Thanks so much shashurup. Might you link to some of the posts in this thread (or this thread itself) under the "tips" section. My posts about the New York Times in particular might interest folks.

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mm this is awesome i can get the full print edition of The Economist for offline reading

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Anyone else find that a sizable number of your NYT articles this morning were requests for login information? I'll be really bummed if they made a change that affects NYT reading via feed circuit!

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i switched to reuters.com feeds

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Because of the problem with NYT, or because you prefer Reuters?

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yup the NYT feeds are asking for logins for some articles

I tried cutting out the middle man and took out the google reformatting service, it didn't help

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Thanks. (Your longer reply got sent to my email due to my subscription to this thread :) ) I might just have to try the Washington Post or LA Times (anyone try these on Feed Circuit yet?)

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hehe i only spotted the problem with NYT later

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two things, is there a way to stop in-feed images? and i seem to get a "file exist" error when i try to change the cache dir in preferences...

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It looks like target directory already exists and contains some file FC tries to copy. Delete it and try again.
Currently it is not possible to prevent image downloading but I can add this option to the next release.