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Are there any alternative sources of archival RSS feeds like those that Google Reader (unofficially) provides?
by aheilbut 14y ago
Are there any alternative sources of archival RSS feeds like those that Google Reader (unofficially) provides?
- icebraining 14y agoWhat's an archival RSS feed?
- aheilbut 14y agoYou can get an RSS file (well, Atom) for any feed that includes all posts going back to whenever google reader started following it. Normally if you get the RSS from the originating site it'll only have the latest 20 or so posts, and there isn't a standardized way to get the history.
- zanny 14y agoGreader will preserve its own history of a feed, including deleted items and feeds that go down, given someone on the Internet was accessing it, Google caches it. It means when a website is taken offline, if you are subscribed to, say, a content RSS feed through them, you can still browse the history and content. I just switched to Akregator, which will locally cache feeds (and you can configure it to do so permanantly) but it is a local copy. You can host your feeds via a feed host through it, so I imagine what I'm going to do is run Akregator off my server box, archive my feeds, and access it from my servers ip.
- icebraining 14y agoOh, well, I've name-dropped it a few times already, but TTRSS stories every item in its database. I've used it to run some numbers on them.
- aheilbut 14y agoThe beauty of this aspect of google reader though is that they have archived every feed that anyone has read in the past 5+ years, and there's actually an API to retrieve that data as RSS/Atom.
- EvanAnderson 14y agoSounds like somebody should send out the signal to Archive Team and Jason Scott.