Get Full-Text Feed with Delphi

Question

I'm developing a Delphi program that reads the source of a feed through the component Indy idHTTP.. but the feed does not appear complete, appears only its summary, I mean the feed does not show the "content" tag.

I think it is possible to get full-text feeds because I have found some sites on the Internet (like http://fulltextrssfeed.com/) that can show the full-text feed, even for feeds that show only the summary.

What should I do to be able to read the full-text feed via Delphi? Is there a specific Delphi component to do this or can I do it with idHTTP?

Any help will be very very appreciated

Thanks you All!

Answer 1

1. Delphi has other built-in controls for TCP/IP besides Indy. Try one, and see if you get different results. Even as an experiment, it would only take about 30 seconds (drag drop component onto a form, set the URL, fetch the results, and see what you get). Correct?

2. If the site in question isn't giving you a full-text feed, I'm not aware of any Delphi component that will automagically get it for you. Here's a good link about some heuristics to get it yourself from the partial RSS contents:

   How to programmatically determine whether an RSS feed is a full feed or a partial feed

   And a tutorial on parsing the RSS, using Delphi:

   Reading and manipulating XML files with Delphi

3. Finally, there seem to be a number of web apps out there which CAN get the full-text RSS for you:

   http://fulltextrssfeed.com/feed.php

   http://www.fullrssfeed.com/

   http://www.unsum.com/converter

   Perhaps you can integrate one of these services into your app?