[FR]: Allow downloading the full articles #2136
Description
Brief description of the feature request
Yes, I know, that we have this option already. But not all people know that actually the full articles RSS Guard downloads are not the full articles - they contain only the extracted "content" part and cut anything else.
This is quite useful in vast majority of cases (leaving the "junk" behind). But it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Unfortunately this "junk cutter" can sometimes (meaning for some sites) be buggy so it cuts not only the junk but also some actual content part. This is one of the worst scenarios because users could have kind of half of article instead of the full one and they will never know about this. So they will think that they read the article in whole but actually they already missed something (maybe) important.
The library go-readability is used for this job. And we know already that the authors cannot fix some bugs in it. So for some sites this behavior (losing parts of the real content) will stay.
Proposal here is to allow to download the full articles, meaning really full without content cutting. The option with the name "When downloading the full article, retrieve:" will have 3 choices:
- Content only (default option)
- Text only
- Full article
For the latter case "junk cutter" is not applied and the full article is downloaded. Yes, it may contain some "not needed" parts, but it is much better than losing "needed" parts in any way. Also many articles still have some redundant parts even after extraction, so this tool is definitely not ideal in both directions.
This option, along with #1783, #2055 and #2118, may give the user the full (more or less) control on reading the full articles in RSS Guard. Maybe these options will even deserve their own separate tab in feed properties.