I have been using lastRSS for a while in order to parse the RSS feeds on my site. However, I have recently discovered it doesn’t do everything I would like it to do.

I needed something that would allow me to show only a certain amount of characters for each file and no more in order to keep the design intact. So, instead of creating a new parser or finding another one, I decided to branch off of lastRSS and program what I want myself.
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