Download all articles for feed

[sbravener]

I have several sites that are in the 50+ article range. I would like to download all the articles on these sites as opposed to just the newest 10. is there a way to set RSSGuard to download ALL articles from a site? I looked through the menus and setup, but do not see anything.

Thanks

Sean B.

[martinrotter]

What do you mean "sites"? RSS Guard downloads all content that is stored in a feed.

[ScoobyDone]

Sadly, not how rss works. the feed is configurable at the SERVER as to how many posts/articles it will show. And while you can hit a link to view older posts on the web, there is no mechanism in the feed to view older content. Think of it like a "top ten" or "latest posts" kind of thing. If you look at the feed file/page directly in a browser, you can verify this yourself. The same thing goes for the content, too. Some show the whole article but some feeds only show a teaser highlight to get you to click to the site so they can show you ads.

Now, there is a way to get older content, do a search for web scraping and if you can figure that out, please share with the rest of us. lol...

[matthewruzzi]

There is a standard for making multi-page rss feeds called RFC 5005 that would allow a website to provide the entire archive of blog posts via rss.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5005
#1730

[matthewruzzi]

WordPress also has its own support for paged feeds using the paged query parameter.

https://wordpress.com/blog/feed/
https://wordpress.com/blog/feed/?paged=2
https://wordpress.com/blog/feed/?paged=3
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