RSS feed not outputting full text? We can fix that for you too.

by fisio on 2008-06-14 03:34:00

Traffic is money, so some websites are stingy, offering only a few lines of text in their RSS feeds. Want to read the full article? Sorry, you have to give me the traffic first. This article teaches you how to handle these miserly sites in Google Reader. Instead of using an iframe preview page, you'll get only the main body, the full text, with images and everything.

You need to use Greasemonkey, the user script manager for Firefox, which has recently been updated to version 0.8 and now supports the latest version of Firefox 3. The script that allows Google Reader to fetch full-text feeds is called "Google Reader Full Feed Changer," or you can install it directly. After installation, there's just a little bit of final setup left to do.