How to Use Yahoo Pipes for Full Text RSS
Yahoo Pipes is an online application developed by Yahoo which allows users to pipe RSS feeds, posts, content and other data from various Web sources, which you can then republish on other sites. Users customize the pipe through Yahoo's Web-based user interface, and this allows you to specify exactly how you'd like your piped content to appear when you republish it. However, most RSS feeds only syndicate part of the posted content, including only the title of the post or just the first few sentences. If you want to pipe the full text of syndicated posts, you'll have to clone the Full Text RSS Builder pipe to your Pipes account, then add your own content
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Instructions
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Open your blog or site template in a text editor, or use your blogging site's design editing tools, to edit the HTML of the blog posting template.
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Add a unique tag and its closing counterpart to the beginning and end of the post template. This is the tag that the Full Text RSS Builder will use to recognize the full text of your posts and to publish them in the Pipe, and it should be invisible to visitors of your regular site. You can use:
<span class="fulltext">Blog post content goes here</span>
Where "<span class="fulltext">" and "</span>" are your opening and closing tags around your post-content template.
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Save and upload the edited HTML of your blog template to your site.
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Copy the URL to your site's RSS feed to your computer clipboard. Many sites' RSS feeds have a URL syntax of yoursite.com/feed, but your site's feed may have a different format.
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Visit the Pipes Full Text RSS Builder homepage and click the "Clone" button to create a clone of this pipe to your own Pipes.
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Delete any content in the "RssURL" field. Paste the URL of your site's RSS feed into this field.
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Type the unique opening tag you used to earmark the content area of your blog's post template in the "ContextBegin" field. Enter the closing tag you used in the "ContextEnd" field.
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Click "Run This Pipe" button to ensure that the results look the way you want them to. A preview of the full text pipe appears in the large pane below the form. Ensure that the full text of your site's posts appear the way you want.
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Use your new pipe as a badge on your site by clicking "Get as a Badge" and copying and pasting the generated code onto your site. Alternatively, automatically add it to your Yahoo pipes or Google reader by clicking those buttons, use the pipe as its own RSS feed or JCON script, or click the "More Options" tab for a drop-down menu of other options for your new full-text RSS pipe.
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Tips & Warnings
Easily access and edit this pipe at any time by logging in to your Yahoo account, visiting pipes.yahoo.com and clicking "My Pipes" in the menu across the top of the page. When you clone the original Full Text RSS builder, it automatically saves to your pipes.
By default, the cloning process names your new pipe "Full Text RSS Builder Copy," but you can easily rename it. Hover your mouse over the name of the pipe in your list of pipes, then click "Edit Source" in the menu that appears. Cilck the name of the pipe in the upper-left corner tab to make it editable, then type the new name in the field and press "Enter." Click the "Save" button at the top right corner to save your changes.
Ensure that the tags surround only the post contents, and not any other formatting or coding, such as inline editing tools or counters, or the Full Text RSS Builder will include these in your published Pipe with each post.
