RSS feeds are really great and I use them a lot for keeping up with personal blogs, corporate tech blogs and what's new at AWS. I don't think there's any other medium, apart from maybe email, that's so scalable, easy to understand and has such a rich ecosystem of readers and other tools. That said, there's nothing worse than an RSS feed that just returns a headline and the first paragraph of the article. Or sometimes you don't even get that, sometimes it's just a short description of the article. That sucks when reading offline, but also because you have to click through to the website to read the article. This exposes you to ads, trackers and other needless crap. I wanted to solve this issue for myself first and foremost and to that end I created rss-fulltext. RSS-fulltext downloads the RSS feed, and for each link it will try and pull out the article using readability, clean the output a little bit, and then create and serve a new RSS feed with the full text included. Like…
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