Does anyone know how to make the photographs appear in The Guardian's RSS feeds in Google Reader?

December 18, 2011 4:56 AM

Does anyone know how to make the photographs appear in The Guardian's RSS feeds in Google Reader?

This has been a mild irritation for a while. For some reason, even though there are two sizes of graphic in the actual feed -- a preview and full image -- they're replaced when the feed appears in Reader with a blank space.

Reader also dumps graphics from other feeds -- it seems to be to do with how the feed is configured. I've emailed user help at The Guardian and Google about this but never had a response.

I know an alternative would be to move to a different reader but I've been using Google Reader for ages and even with the refit it suits most purposes.

posted by feelinglistless to computers & internet (3 answers total)

If you've got basic programming skills, you could use something like Yahoo Pipes to slightly reconfigure the feed in a way that Google Reader likes.
posted by sleepcrime at 9:01 AM on December 18, 2011

Sleepcrime: I've tried that and can't seem to work it out, thanks. Anyone else?
posted by feelinglistless at 9:37 AM on December 18, 2011

It's not quite what you're after, but Phil Gyford, of Pepys' diary fame, has a very user-friendly Guardian/Observer site that takes its material from the Guardian Open Platform. (If the redistribution rights to a story are unavailable, he always has a link to the original.)
posted by davemack at 11:29 AM on December 18, 2011