As some people know, I read a lot of RSS feeds. I am currently subscribed to 69 separate feeds, and this number is slowly growing.

Something that I am starting to notice, is that quite a few websites/blogs don’t give you the whole story within the RSS feed. This is quite annoying, I read a lot of things while I am mobile (read with limited Internet connectivity), so clicking on each article’s link before I leave for the train is just annoying.

I have finally gotten around to creating a (web) service that will take these said feeds, and ‘fix’ them. To do this, I take the RSS feed that is provided by the website/blog, and grab the full page that is linked from it. Then I run a xpath query over this page and dump the result of it into the the output RSS feed.

You can grab the latest version of the service from it’s development repository at http://tsukasa.net.au/~hg/feed_fixer, or you may use my installed version at http://tsukasa.net.au/feed_fixer.

Remember that I am actually using this service, so DO NOT delete any of the entries that are there.

Some features that will be coming in a future version will be the ability to have ‘hidden’ feeds (with a special key to gain access to the feed), the ability to add feeds requiring a password, the ability to add password protected trac feeds (as they decided to require user’s to have a cookie). Feature requests are welcome.