Purpose

Fix Up RSS (and atom) fixes rss feeds without full text.

It works by taking a feed URL and one or more XPATH expressions to extract the full text. For each article in the feed, it fetches the pointed-to article, does the XPATH extractions, and packages the result as the new feed.

It also does some minor things that are intended to unbreak the web: It resolves feed links to the article they ultimately point at (so that e.g., when google shuts down feedproxy.google.com, URLs you copied & pasted from feeds will still work) and it removes "utm_ trackers" that it recognizes from URLs in order to protect your privacy.

Requirements

• Python 2.7 (2.6 is missing some xpath features such as attribute matching)
• feedparser (tested with 5.1.2)
• BeautifulSoup3 (tested with 3.2.1)

Optional:

• memcached (the default debian/ubuntu packaging sets up memcached compatibly)

Configuration

furss is configured via an rc file (really, a Python script), either ~/.furssrc or the file named on the commandline. The defaults are shown near the top of the furss.py script. furssrc.sample shows a sample configuration.

License

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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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