Can a feed be completely reloaded?

[Bubbu0129]

Currently the only operation is to refresh feeds, which leave the parsed entries and only update new ones. After I edited the feed (eg. change url parameters), past entries won't update. Can a feed be completely reloaded, which removes old entries and load the whole RSS?

[fguillot]

The alternative approach is to delete the feed and add it again. Not ideal, if the feed has bookmarked entries.

[kris-anderson]

This would be really nice to have.

When adding a new feed, when I end up needing to fetch the original article and then clean up a bunch of garbage that ends up in the content (like social media links, author bios, etc.), I end up needing to delete the feed some 10-30 times while I try different rewrite rules. I need to copy all of the settings I have, delete the feed, and add it back with all of my settings plus the new modifications.

There's two ways I could see this working that would be helpful (for me).

1. Add an option to reload any content found in a feed.
2. Add an option to delete all stored data from a particular feed, and grab the latest.

Both would solve my issue, but #1 would be preferred. The reason I'd prefer #1, is because when a website changes it's HTML/CSS, I wouldn't want to lose my history or previously downloaded articles, and #1 would allow me to keep all my history, but at the same time allow me to update my rewrite rules and test that against the newest items from the feed.