WaPo RSS Feed Truncation and Fix

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courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’

The Washington Post has seen fit to truncate its RSS feed to only an excerpt, and that requires you to now open the story in a web browser. It’s a monetization issue; we get that. But it’s quite frustrating for those of us who have developed a reading (and saving) habit in our RSS readers. But there’s a solution: FullTextRSSFeed Dot COM! (sing “DOT COM!” it makes it more exciting). This gets your reader back with full articles and what not. You can choose your feed and run it through their tool, but we’ve provided some:

Washington Post Local Feed

DCist Full Text Feed (without the new design)

John Athayde

John has lived in DC since attending CUA’s Architecture school starting in 1995. He is a UI/UX/Design guru for LivingSocial and also plays in numerous bands (Juniper Lane, Rotoscope, Boboroshi & Kynz) and loves hyping people on eating local food, sustainable human settlement patterns, gardening, and good old fashioned rock and roll and electronica. He runs the dirt lab (aka mega garden) for WeLoveDC, where he eats most of the proceeds.

4 thoughts on “WaPo RSS Feed Truncation and Fix”

Awesome – thanks for the heads up. FYI your DCist full text feed link is broken.

Ed – Thanks. I simply put in the feed address from DCist into their tool. http://dcist.com/index.rdf works, so I’m not sure if this doesn’t handle RDF well or some other problem may persist.

Yeah, it doesn’t seem to like the DCist full text feed in its entirety, which is a darned shame.

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Ed on March 14, 2011 at 4:09 pm said:

Awesome – thanks for the heads up. FYI your DCist full text feed link is broken.
John Athayde on March 14, 2011 at 4:24 pm said:

Ed – Thanks. I simply put in the feed address from DCist into their tool. http://dcist.com/index.rdf works, so I’m not sure if this doesn’t handle RDF well or some other problem may persist.
Tom Bridge on March 14, 2011 at 5:08 pm said:

Yeah, it doesn’t seem to like the DCist full text feed in its entirety, which is a darned shame.
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