Hi Karl, Karl Voit <devn...@karl-voit.at> writes:
> Hi! > > TL;DR: org-feed.el is not a doable replacement for Google Reader. > What about alternatives? > > I am using Google Reader with the Android app "NewsRob Pro" which is > very good in terms of features that make sense and support my > workflow. > > Google Reader will die in July and therefore NewsRob will die as > well (or has to migrate to another server platform which is unlikely > due to lack of time from the author). > > So I was thinking of using Emacs with or without Org-mode as a > potential replacement. I basically live in Org-mode. Since I read > RSS a *lot* on my Android devices (yes, even being at home), I'd > love to have sync abilities between desktop Emacs and something like > MobileOrg. > > I stumbled upon org-feed.el[1][2] and tried it with two of my RSS > feeds (heise, Dilbert). > > It's working. In a way. > > Unfortunately, there is no (obvious) way of getting the feed content > rather than the short description (for selected feeds). Images are > not shown (Dilbert comic strip) and HTML fragments are all over the > place making it hard to read the news. Since the resulting data did > not fulfill basic requirements, I did not even bother and try to sync > it to MobileOrg. > > Therefore, org-feed.el is not a replacement for Google Reader and > NewsRob for my set of requirements at all. > > I wonder if there are a group of people having the same issue > because of the demise of Google Reader and apps that sync from/to > there. > > Any suggestions? Ideas? > > I'd prefer to think about having a solution which is hosted on my > computers rather than having to re-do the switch when the next cloud > based service stops working in a year or so. This is not an answer to your question, sorry. But you can host your own reader. I can recommend tiny-tiny-rss, which also has a nice android client (two, actually). To get the content instead of the short description, you can try full-text-rss (you can host this yourself as well). It does not work perfect (esp. heise content is missing in a lot of articles), but improves the situation. I expect a good solution based on emacs to be hard to set up, because of heavy image/markup/codesnippet/..-use in many articles and because of syncing. But I'll follow this thread and would be habby to be proven wrong... Regards, Andreas
