⭐ Read it later support for starred article

[ghost]

At the moment I use a mix of wallabag and news just to have the read it later option for all the article I want to read from my feed list.

So for my as a heavy feed reader it would be great to have this feature in the news app, so I just need to "star" an news and can read it wheneI want.

I think this needs also work on the news-app. I made there also a request nextcloud/news#306

[David-Development]

Thank you for your feedback! Can you elaborate your use-case a little more please?

From what I understand you want to be able to mark interesting articles in the nextcloud news android app as "read later", right? Is the "starred" items feature sufficient for that use-case? If not, what are you missing?

[ghost]

Hallo,
Thanks for the quick reply.
My idea or the use case would be to go through the news and be able to mark articles as read it later (probably this can be the starred ones but maybe it is a different category)
Than those articles are fetched in the background. So I am able to read the whole article without the need of loading it or opening the browser.

This is in my opinion helpfull because many feeds I use (in germany) only provide the summery via rss and to read the whole article I need to visit the website.

[David-Development]

Okay, I see. Yes, I noticed this as well, especially with the german "heise" feeds. However implementing such a feature would require a lot of magic behind the scenes. I'll have to look into existing libraries to figure out if there's something that could help with it. Most websites nowadays use javascript / some async loading techniques which make it very difficult to pre-load a website into cache.

For reference:
https://github.com/JonasCz/save-for-offline

https://www.androidpolice.com/2016/09/01/chrome-dev-adds-downloads-manager-ability-save-page-offline-viewing/

[jlHertel]

Hey people, I would like to ask what is the status on this.
I'm switching from spaRSS to nextcloud News and also noticed this lack of downloading the full article.
spaRSS has this feature and is open source. Maybe we can take a look how they implemented it there?

[blacs30]

I recently switched from Miniflux to Nextcloud news again (it made great improvements since the early versions from which I moved away).
One thing I liked about Miniflux is the "save" functionality, which interacts with other software like Wallabag to add a new entry.
This way the parsing etc doesn't need to be handled by the news app but can be offloaded to specialised apps.
The implementation of such a thing should be also a lot easier since it's a couple of API calls and no further data needs to be handled (except the auth details for that service like Wallabag)