Re: how to download entire feed with wget

Rogers Cadenhead wrote:
> To go back further, you'd have to find an aggregator that saved older
> feed entries, as Google Reader appears to do from your post. I think
> Bloglines does this, and you can request that data with the Bloglines
> API:

You can do the same kind of thing through Google's API. However, bear in 
mind that what you're getting back isn't the original feed content - it will 
have been processed and altered by whichever of the services you use.

Now there's also a "standard" way to get back archived feed documents - 
RFC5005 - but it's very rarely implemented. A couple of the big blogging 
sites support something similar, but the reality of how it's implemented in 
practice is different enough to make the spec essentially useless. At least 
in my experience.

One last warning: If you do try and get something like this working, 
remember that some feeds can be huge. When they post multiple messages per 
day and have been going for several years, that adds up to a lot of data. 
You can find yourself downloading hundreds of pages and thousands of feed 
entries.

Regards
James



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