Abbreviated newspaper articles with eww

[Michael Heerdegen]

Hello,

I want to read newspaper articles on "www.sueddeutsche.de" with eww.
But some articles are appearing incomplete (there is a paywall on the
site, but the articles I mean are not behind it).

Here is an example:

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/reparationszahlungen-gewolltes-missverstaendnis-1.2463623

With firefox or w3m, I get a complete article. With eww, it is
abbreviated after:

| Bundesrepublik gebe endlich zu, Zahlungen prüfen zu müssen. Muss sie ...

Not all articles are affected, only some.

I tried to

(setq-default
url-user-agent
(concat "User-Agent: Emacs-w3m/" emacs-w3m-version " " w3m-version "\r\n"))

hoping this could help, but this didn't make a difference. The article
is fetched incompletely by url-retrieve:

(url-retrieve
"http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/reparationszahlungen-gewolltes-missverstaendnis-1.2463623"
(lambda (&rest args) (pop-to-buffer (current-buffer))))

gives me the abbreviated version.

What can I do to get the complete article to eww?


Thanks,

Michael.

[to...@tuxteam.de]

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On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 02:50:17PM +0200, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to read newspaper articles on "www.sueddeutsche.de" with eww.
> But some articles are appearing incomplete (there is a paywall on the
> site, but the articles I mean are not behind it).
>
> Here is an example:
>
> http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/reparationszahlungen-gewolltes-missverstaendnis-1.2463623
>
> With firefox or w3m, I get a complete article. With eww, it is
> abbreviated after:
>
> | Bundesrepublik gebe endlich zu, Zahlungen prüfen zu müssen. Muss sie ...
>
> Not all articles are affected, only some.

Works for me (I know, I know...)

Never tried eww up to now (yikes!), so this was a handy chance. So don't
expect too much knowledge.

Some sites have a kind of "soft" paywall, which shows you (or whatever
their fuzzball of code thinks is "you") a limited number of articles
in full, after that they come in mutilated. The ellipsis in your quote
seems to hint at some "deliberate" action and not at an accident (the
version I got just continues there, no ellipsis).

Regards
- -- tomás
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[Michael Heerdegen]

Hello Tomas,

> Some sites have a kind of "soft" paywall, which shows you (or whatever
> their fuzzball of code thinks is "you") a limited number of articles
> in full, after that they come in mutilated. The ellipsis in your quote
> seems to hint at some "deliberate" action and not at an accident (the
> version I got just continues there, no ellipsis).

I think you are right. I got confused by the "fuzz" part. I think they
have such a "soft" paywall. Dunno why I thought the problem would come
from Emacs... ;-)


Many Thanks,

Michael.

[to...@tuxteam.de]

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On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 05:52:06PM +0200, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> Hello Tomas,
>
> [...] Dunno why I thought the problem would come
> from Emacs... ;-)

It *never* comes from Emacs, does it? ;-)

cheers
- -- t

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