diff --git a/src/feather/client.py b/src/feather/client.py
index 9a8b236..66c9bba 100644
--- a/src/feather/client.py
+++ b/src/feather/client.py
@@ -40,6 +40,18 @@ class ClientSession(ABC):
         pass
 
 
+## Google Reader API ##
+
+# Monkey patch the item.enclosure class; FreshRSS returns the link in the href field but the library expects it in url
+ContentItemEnclosure_old_init = google_reader.ContentItemEnclosure.__init__
+
+
+def ContentItemEnclosure_new_init(self, type: str, url: str = None, href: str = None):
+    ContentItemEnclosure_old_init(self, url=url or href, type=type)
+
+
+google_reader.ContentItemEnclosure.__init__ = ContentItemEnclosure_new_init
+
 label_name_re = re.compile("user/.*/label/(.*)")
 
 
@@ -128,11 +140,18 @@ class GReaderArticle(Article):
         self.content = item_content.content.content
         self.feed_title = item_content.origin.title
         self.feed_url = item_content.origin.html_url
-        self.article_url = item_content.canonical[0].href
+        if len(item_content.canonical) > 0:
+            self.article_url = item_content.canonical[0].href
+        else:
+            # several API references I've seen didn't mention canonical, but alternate seems to also be the article link (?) and should be an ok fallback
+            self.article_url = item_content.alternate[0].href
 
         self._compute_json_path()
 
 
+## Tiny Tiny RSS API ##
+
+
 class TTRSession(ClientSession):
     """Tiny Tiny RSS API client"""