Help with RSS Feed

**cajunboy2208** · 07-10-2007, 12:01 AM

I finally setup a RSS feed, and I am only getting 2 or 3 lines for a description, and then it will just go to read the full story link type of deal. I don't want that... I want the whole article to be posted. I posted this on vb.com... but they are slow as shyt, and I am sure you great guys can answer this pretty easy. Thanks in advance, because I know y'all got this =)

**eric** · 07-10-2007, 02:21 AM

usually you do this with the rss url, mostly the feed generator sends all but the reador doesn't show all

try adding &full=true to the end of the url of your feed, if it already has other parameters. Else it'll be ?full=true

**Big Dan** · 07-10-2007, 04:01 AM

It really depends on the feed itself. Some publishers only publish a summary in an effort to drive traffic to their sites. If the site only publishes a snippet or summary, there is nothing you can do other than copy/pasting the article.

Here is a decent resource for RSS tags: RSS 2.0 Specification (RSS 2.0 at Harvard Law)

**cajunboy2208** · 07-10-2007, 12:18 PM

Well I am trying to get a sports feed up. But ESPN, Yahoo, MSN, Google, and Sports Illustrated, only show a few lines... I've tried many other sites, and viewed their source, and they jus have a few lines in the description. But I will try the &full=true, and leave some feedback if it worked or not.

Didn't help, tried 10 other sites also... Just get a summary pretty much.

**Brandon Sheley** · 07-10-2007, 02:02 PM

Sometimes you have to dig pretty low on the google page looking for RSS feeds. I'd search for blogs that are posting sports news. Blogs will usually give a few more lines out Vs. the CMS type news portals.

**cajunboy2208** · 07-10-2007, 03:47 PM

Anyone wanna help me find a sports one? I went through page 5 on google... just getting tired of searching.

**Brandon Sheley** · 07-10-2007, 08:23 PM

just spots in general ? or do you want to narrow it down a little more ?