(2) PS: A few days ago I learned about unofficial GR API [6] (I'm pretty sure it had to be already covered on HN, but I'm not always a daily HN reader, so I c

(2) PS: A few days ago I learned about unofficial GR API [6] (I'm pretty sure it had to be already covered on HN, but I'm not always a daily HN reader, so I could miss it) via LWN.net article [7] (sorry, it's not available for free yet and there are too many HN users out there, so using the so called "Free Link" wouldn't be acceptable IMHO). But it's no longer available [8]. There is also "a collection of tools to help with the Google Reader shutdown" called Reader Is Dead [9], with extremely useful reader_archive [10], but well, it's not longer useful. If I only knew about it before the shutdown... Thankfully Archive Team [11] retrieved historical feed data from GR using its API [12], so not everything is lost. Over 8TB of data converted to WARC files (specification of ISO 28500:2009 [13], free final draft [14], "Everything about the WARC format and the tools that support it." [15]), in tarred+gzipped form can be downloaded [16]. My 0th rule of the internet: You have to constantly backup it! [0] http://googleblog.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cleaning.html [1] http://www.google.com/takeout/ [2] http://theoldreader.com/ [3] http://blog.theoldreader.com/post/49375135562/may-1-release-is-here [4] http://blog.theoldreader.com/post/53860614326/weekly-update-june-24-30 [5] http://theoldreader.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/146276 [6] http://undoc.in/ [7] http://lwn.net/Articles/558138/ [8] http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2013/07/a-final-farewell.html [9] http://readerisdead.com/ [10] https://github.com/mihaip/readerisdead/wiki/reader_archive [11] http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Who_We_Are [12] http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Google_Reader [13] http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=44717 [14] http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf [15] http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=The_WARC_Ecosystem [16] http://archive.org/details/archiveteam_greader