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Stephen.. appreciate the overwhelming kindness you show me!
Likewise, I always leave your blog learning something new like this cool hack that I’ve already added to my script. Most people who can understands this stuff don’t share the knowledge.. you do and in a succinct way that even I can understand. Great work, Stephen.
K, Thanks for the compliments and Thanks for the Stumble.
Thanks for the hack, will help me a lot with my rss subscribers.
Prestamos, I hope it helps. Good luck and thanks for leaving a comment.
in regards to this:
Note: The Print Button doesn’t appear for me if I just log into Google Reader and click on a Feed. I need to enter the http://www.google.com/reader/view/ URL in the address bar (and press Enter), then click on a Feed for the button to appear.
this is because for some reason, if you go into the included pages, under manage user scripts, it is http://www.google.com/reader/view/
this should be changed to:
http://www.google.com/reader/view/*
with the “*” at the end of “http://www.google.com/reader/view/”
magic!
J, Thank you very much! Works a treat and makes it much more useable. I’ll edit the post slightly, so it points to your comment. Thanks again!
Hi Stephen,
thanks a lot for this one, it just saved me an afternoon full of frustration. Although I am definitely a lover of Google reader for the fact that articles are stored over the entire lifecycle and not just temporarily. However, the apparent lack of core functionality still illustrates how much in Beta this reader is: There is no support for printing, for renaming tags, there is no support for conditional views: e.g. All posts I have tagged with car and with cool or similar… So there is definitely a long way to go but I’m optimistic we will have such features soon.
In the meantime I will promote your hack.
Cheers,
Martin
Hi Martin,
I’m glad it helped. I’m a fan of Google Reader too, but you’re right – there’s lots of functionality that needs to be added. I’d had frustrations with everything you mentioned there. But at the end of the day I still use it and I’m hopeful they’ll get it sorted out!
I have added this script, and changed the URL from
http://www.google.com/reader/view/ to
http://www.google.com/reader/view/*
In both the script itself and in the “included pages” section of the greasemonkey app, but the button does not show up. How come? I have also commented out the three lines in the script. Help!
Dang, NM, I was running it in “IE” mode using IE tab. Doh!
Hi Dgsinclair,
See – its always IE’s fault!
Glad it’s sorted now…
To print a long text from Google Reader, I use the old dumb way.
Copying it into MS Word than print it from there.
This hack would speed up my productivity.
Thank’s
LINK REMOVED: because of failure to use KeywordLuv syntax (name@keywords)
Hi, i am the author of the greasemonkey script. Thanks for all your remarks. I have corrected the missing ‘*’ in the url filter, and modified a little the script. Now two buttons are available, one to print the current selected item, the second one to print all items loaded. I think this is the easier way to handle both cases, but feel free to send other hacks.
Hi Julien,
Thanks for stopping by and THANKS for writing the Google Reader Print Button script in the first place. Great work!
Even better now that you’ve updated the script. This is better than using a hack, so I’ll edit this article to tell people to come and get the latest version. Thanks again!
More and more bloggers these day are turning off full feed because of scrapers pawning off content and passing it off as their own. Soon it will require us to go to the page to actually print the whole article.
@Dinesh, this is a sad reality of the current state of the Web. I can understand that can be inconvenient but I also understand blog owners that don’t want to have their content stole.
Actually, some bloggers publish just excerpts intheir feeds on purpose. They can publish the most interesting bits and then this gets more readers to the actual page which is good for the blog and makes it more likely the reader will interact.
Sad? It’s quite logical that site owners want to protect their content to some extent since content is king and if there is no need to visit sites why should people do it? AKA site owners will still get their stuff out there but they will get 0 in return which isn’t such a great motivator to continue writing great content.
There are sooo.. many possible ways to steal peoples content, put it through a markov engine (or even a CURL+Google Translator if someone wants to put up spamsites about some keywords in some other language other then english) and have unique content derived from it without the the problems with duplicate content.
This can also be put into a system where different feeds about some keywords are gathered, rewritten and published. It would even be a way to outrank all the great pages that content is stolen from in with some backlinks and so on.
@Dinesh, @jeff,
Maybe some people are like that but I for one don’t even both subscribing to partial feeds, unless it is exceptional, because it takes me longer to read it and it more of a hassle.
If a post is good then I will head over to the page to participate in any discussions but partial posts never get my attention.
i agree, usually i won’t add partial feeds and even added due to some interest, will give it least attention. I consider it breaking momentum. Anyways its a personalized world so every option is there.
I am figuring out for a while how to go about my rss because more readers are coming into perspective. Always something, I just found out that all of my rss are actually also indexed. Thanks for the hack I am looking at this
I think google has to stop all the scrapers. That way site owners could keep full feeds.
I like the hack i will try it tonight.
Hey stephen,
I would like it if you would take out a few minutes from your precious time to say something on my blog’s new theme, I want some advice from experts on it, thanks it advance!
Oh this is quite useful, didnt know there was a new update of the script so will be looking at that later.
cheers
Joe
In order to print a long text from Google Reader, I use the old dumb way.
Copying it into MS Word than print it…
This hack will definitely speed my productivity.
Thank you!
Great google reader hack. Makes it alot easier than copying it and then printing it out. You have some great codes and hacks on your blog.
more bloggers are turning off full feed because of scrapers pawning off content and passing it off as their own….
Very informative site, and very interesting posts. I have bookmarked your site, and will be back, good work guys.. thanks