>In other ways, I’m upset and jealous the author got there first.
If it makes you feel better (or worse?) I wrote something very similar to this 20 years ago and still use it every day. I wanted my own RSS reader back then, hated all the ones I saw and wanted one that looked like a normal blog (not inbox, similar to OP's requirements) that I could design however I wanted. So I basically wrote an RSS feed parser to give me everything and designed it to look like my normal blog does.
That got modified to going to grab the full article if the RSS feed only had blurbs. I didn't want to have to click outside my reader to view the full post, I wanted everything in my feed reader. Since I had a basic page scraper, I used that for other sites that didn't have RSS feeds, this helped a lot when social media became popular so I never had to actually go to any social media sites at all. I could just stay in my own feed with the content I wanted (I was never really into social media anyway).
And as you can imagine, it being 20 years old means it's written in old tech, PHP and XSLT, because that's what I was writing 20 years ago. And it's still written in that.
In any case I highly suggest making your own. It's a fun project. Sure mine is crufty and old and sometimes doesn't generate the right content I want (scraping is fairly imperfect), but it's mine and it's been my daily reader for 20 years and I love it.
If it makes you feel better (or worse?) I wrote something very similar to this 20 years ago and still use it every day. I wanted my own RSS reader back then, hated all the ones I saw and wanted one that looked like a normal blog (not inbox, similar to OP's requirements) that I could design however I wanted. So I basically wrote an RSS feed parser to give me everything and designed it to look like my normal blog does.
That got modified to going to grab the full article if the RSS feed only had blurbs. I didn't want to have to click outside my reader to view the full post, I wanted everything in my feed reader. Since I had a basic page scraper, I used that for other sites that didn't have RSS feeds, this helped a lot when social media became popular so I never had to actually go to any social media sites at all. I could just stay in my own feed with the content I wanted (I was never really into social media anyway).
And as you can imagine, it being 20 years old means it's written in old tech, PHP and XSLT, because that's what I was writing 20 years ago. And it's still written in that.
In any case I highly suggest making your own. It's a fun project. Sure mine is crufty and old and sometimes doesn't generate the right content I want (scraping is fairly imperfect), but it's mine and it's been my daily reader for 20 years and I love it.