It is possible to extract the full text of an article from Goodlinks, but getting it into Obsidian (or wherever else you might want to put it) is a two step process.
First, select the item you want to extract in the sidebar. Right click on the selection and choose “Copy.” Then select your desired format: URL, Plain Text, Markdown, HTML, and Article Link. The whole item will then be copied to the clipboard and you can paste it where you need to.
I usually select Markdown and paste it into Obsidian. Notebooks’ parsing is usually excellent and includes proper Markdown links to any images in the article itself. It also includes some basic YAML metadata. Until Omnivore, it was the tool I used to get article text into Obsidian.
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I may look into Omnivore for extracting full text of articles and saving it to Obsidian. Readwise Reader’s archive search is surprisingly weak.
Have you thought about fixing that using shortcuts? GL has thorough support for that. Check MacStories for some examples
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Maybe you could consider reporting to the dev the articles that aren’t being captured in full ? I’ve done so recently and received a quick reply (if not a fix, yet 
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Thanks for the suggestion, but at the risk of obliterating whatever power user cred I may have, I’ve never gotten into creating shortcuts. 
Maybe I should give it a try as an easy-drinkin’ automation gateway drug.
I never found copying and pasting from GoodLinks into Obsidian particularly onerous in any event. The fact that Omnivore ports the text into Obsidian automatically is nice, I will admit, but not mission critical.
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If they kick you out of MPU for failure to grok shortcuts, I’m right there with you. Shortcuts confuse the heck out of me.
Makes my reading Macstories simpler. When I see they’re doing a long article about some clever Shortcut they created, I just skip reading that article.
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