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RSS Replay

23 points by pw 16y ago

nfg 16y ago
This is a fantastic idea, I often come across an old blog that I want to read through chronologically. Edit: Something like this build into Google Reader would be great.
bluemetal 16y ago
tad sad I did't know about this years ago, thinking of all the things I wish could have lasted longer. oh well.
arnorhs 16y ago
Great idea. Is it possible that it's better suited as a feature of an RSS reader?
DXL 16y ago
Too bad that most RSS feeds only contain the last ten items, not the whole archive.
aw3c2 16y ago
Many feeds are limited to the last X posts. (How) does this workaround that? Are there some big feed archives or caches on the web?
- mbrubeck 16y ago
  It uses the PostRank API, which looks like it has historical data for feeds that PostRank has previously analyzed. So maybe it can provide archived data for some feeds (but not all)? http://apidocs.postrank.com/Feed-Engagement-API http://apidocs.postrank.com/Feed-Engagement-API EDIT: For all the feeds I tried, it just started with the most recent item, not the first. So it's like having a DVR for feeds - you can time-shift them to watch later, but you can't go back and "record" things that happened in the past. I'd really like to create a similar service that crawls the site itself and uses heuristics to figure out the right order for all of the archived posts/entries.
- pw 16y ago
  Good point. For one of the feeds I tried, I got something like the following: "Feed not found. PostRank will try to index it, so try again in a few minutes." Also if you look at PostRank Topics (http://www.postrank.com/main http://www.postrank.com/main), you can see rankings for posts older than what's present in a site's RSS feed. So it does seem to do some archiving.
mike-cardwell 16y ago
Does not appear to support https feeds. Eg, mine: https://secure.grepular.com/rss https://secure.grepular.com/rss
jokermatt999 16y ago
There's a specific version of this for webcomics called Archive Binge. http://www.archivebinge.net/ http://www.archivebinge.net/ I don't know if this is all that interesting to hackers, but I've found it entertaining.

23 points by pw 16y ago

nfg 16y ago

This is a fantastic idea, I often come across an old blog that I want to read through chronologically. Edit: Something like this build into Google Reader would be great.

bluemetal 16y ago

tad sad I did't know about this years ago, thinking of all the things I wish could have lasted longer. oh well.

arnorhs 16y ago

Great idea. Is it possible that it's better suited as a feature of an RSS reader?

DXL 16y ago

Too bad that most RSS feeds only contain the last ten items, not the whole archive.

aw3c2 16y ago

Many feeds are limited to the last X posts. (How) does this workaround that? Are there some big feed archives or caches on the web?

mbrubeck 16y ago
It uses the PostRank API, which looks like it has historical data for feeds that PostRank has previously analyzed. So maybe it can provide archived data for some feeds (but not all)? http://apidocs.postrank.com/Feed-Engagement-API http://apidocs.postrank.com/Feed-Engagement-API EDIT: For all the feeds I tried, it just started with the most recent item, not the first. So it's like having a DVR for feeds - you can time-shift them to watch later, but you can't go back and "record" things that happened in the past. I'd really like to create a similar service that crawls the site itself and uses heuristics to figure out the right order for all of the archived posts/entries.
pw 16y ago
Good point. For one of the feeds I tried, I got something like the following: "Feed not found. PostRank will try to index it, so try again in a few minutes." Also if you look at PostRank Topics (http://www.postrank.com/main http://www.postrank.com/main), you can see rankings for posts older than what's present in a site's RSS feed. So it does seem to do some archiving.

mike-cardwell 16y ago

Does not appear to support https feeds. Eg, mine: https://secure.grepular.com/rss https://secure.grepular.com/rss

jokermatt999 16y ago

There's a specific version of this for webcomics called Archive Binge. http://www.archivebinge.net/ http://www.archivebinge.net/ I don't know if this is all that interesting to hackers, but I've found it entertaining.