Feature request about feeder HOT 9 CLOSED

Hi @YonghuiDong, sorry for the delay in getting back to you on this. Can you please give me more specifics of what you have in mind? Perhaps point me to a feed and let me know what data you would like to get back? What do you mean by "partial" contents? How would you like to specify what portion of the contents you get back? Thanks, Andrew.

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Thanks for your kind help. I would also like to fetch part of the contents from the link as well, e.g., the first 200 words of the contents from the link.

Current feedeR version only exports title, date and link from Rss feed.
feedeR:: feed.extract("https://feeds.feedburner.com/RBloggers")

The R package scifetch can export contents as well. description in the figure.
scifetch::getrss("https://feeds.feedburner.com/RBloggers")

The probeem with scifetch is that it does not supports RSS feeds of scientific journals very well. Therefore I am wondering if feedeR can do the similar job.

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The probeem with scifetch is that it does not supports RSS feeds of scientific journals very well.

Understood.

Just so that I have an idea of what you are wanting to achieve, please can you point me to some examples of relevant "RSS feeds of scientific journals" and give me an idea of what you'd be looking for in the output.

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Hi @YonghuiDong , I've added the description field to the RSS output. Changes are in the dev branch (commit hash 64f6113). Can you please test and let me know if that does what you want? Thanks, Andrew.

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@datawookie Amazing, Thanks a lot Andrew!

I have tested the RSS of RBloggers, and the result is exactly what I need.

feedeR:: feed.extract("https://feeds.feedburner.com/RBloggers")

However, when I test the scientific journal, e.g. Nature Plants, the description are all NAs.

feed.extract("http://feeds.nature.com/nplants/rss/current")

Here is the RSS feed of Nature Plants: http://feeds.nature.com/nplants/rss/current. You can see from the link that there is a short summary for each article.

Below is an example of the output from feedly.com. The summary of the article is also included.

Is it possible that feedeR can fetch the summary as well?

Many scientific journals are non-open access journals, which require subscriptions. But the abstract of each article is available. It will be even better if feedeR can fetch the abstract of the article.

Thanks a lot again.

Yonghui

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However, when I test the scientific journal, e.g. Nature Plants, the description are all NAs.

Yes, that's because it's an RDF feed and I implemented the fix for an RSS feed (based on the fact that the original example you provided me with was https://feeds.feedburner.com/RBloggers).

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I've pushed updates for RDF feed to the dev branch. Please test and let me know.

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@datawookie Hi Andrew,

I have tested several different journals, this version works very well. Thanks a lot!!

Yonghui

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Great. I'll merge into the master branch once I hear back on the other pending issue.

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