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How do I get images from linked posts?

Pull in images from the full article page when feeds don’t include them directly.

If posts in LightWatch don’t match the content you see on the website, it’s likely that your feed doesn’t publish the full post content in its RSS feed. This is a bummer, and the best solution is to contact the feed owner to request they include the full content.

However, you’re not out of luck! Load images from linked articles tells LightWatch to pull in images from the linked articles themselves.

This is a premium feature.

Turning it on

  1. From the Home tab, tap the More menu in the top right.
  2. Tap Settings, then tap Feeds.
  3. Tap the feed you want to configure.
  4. Under Content, toggle Load images from linked articles on.

Whenever LightWatch sees a new post in the feed, it will check the linked article and automatically include the images and videos it finds.

When enabled, LightWatch has to visit every linked article to look for images. This causes checking for updates to take longer, so only enable it if it’s actually needed.

Limitations

This feature tries its best to automatically identify the correct article images on the page. However, it doesn’t always get it right. There is no way to fine-tune it at this time. If your results aren’t what you’re hoping for, I recommend turning the feature off. If you need more control over the content of a feed, I recommend you create your own feed.