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• R RSS - Really Simple Syndication RSS - Really Simple Syndication remote Sep 8, 2026, 1:28 PM You are here

  I built a read-it-later tool that uses DOM parsing instead of AI for article extraction - how do you handle full-text RSS parsing without hallucinations?

  Hey r/rss folks,

  I've been working on a Pocket replacement (Pocket shutting down pushed me).

  Most new tools use LLMs to extract article text, but I found they rewrite/mangle the source and add latency + cost.

  So I went old-school:

  - paragraph density scoring

  - <article> / <main> tag tree analysis

  - text-to-link ratio filtering

  It's deterministic, offline-first, and keeps original text verbatim. No AI.

  It is live at https://fetchmarkapp.com and I wrote up the parsing logic on blog.fetchmarkapp.com

  Question for this community:

  How are you handling full-text extraction for RSS feeds? Are you using Mozilla's Readability.js, custom heuristics, or something else? I'm trying to improve handling for heavy JS sites.

  Would love to compare notes.

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