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Comment by timrosenblatt | Hacker News Reader

Nice. Grabs the whole article text so you don't have to leave the RSS reader.

Lol: http://fulltextrssfeed.com/news.ycombinator.com/rss

Works well for keeping up with HN too :)

Why do a couple of articles in that feed say either "Unable to parse this page for content" (daringfireball.net) or "unable to retrieve full-text content" (nytimes.com)?

it's still just a weekend project, but if everyone keeps throwing love at it like this, it might be more than a weekend project. he's working on it now. :)

The content thieves will love it too. This makes it much easier to automatically copy content.

I wonder how long will it take till sites like lifehacker and heise.de will start blocking this service...

Not really. I can Right Click -> Copy XPath in Firebug's element inspector then just Nokogiri::HTML(page_source).xpath('/blah') to get at it. You can do it with the CSS selector as well. :)

Setting up a quick script to rip all the content from another site is trivial. There's also wget -m

I literally cannot get nokogiri set up on my Mac for love nor money, I'm a noob whose been trying for a week or two. Tried everything. Its preventing me from running tests. Damn xmllibs2.

Install MacPorts: http://www.macports.org

Add /opt/local/bin to your PATH (bashrc or zshrc or whatever you use).

sudo port install libxml2 and sudo port install libxslt

Then sudo gem install nokogiri --no-rdoc --no-ri should run with no issues. That's all I had to do for the system ruby (1.8.7 on OSX 10.6) and 1.9.2 via rvm.

Thanks, just saw this. I'll give it a go now, much appreciated.

So it turned out it was webrat that was the problem, but your instructions actually fixed the problem! I'd researched for hours previously. Genuinely much appreciated!

Glad I could be of assistance!

Do you have XCode installed? Nokogiri is a native extension, I don't think you can build them without the compiler tools installed.

Yes I do. I'll look into this, thanks!

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