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How to fetch all past articles? (self.rss)

submitted 2 weeks ago by claim_arguably to c/rss@lemmy.ml

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I'm new to rss, I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to fetch all old articles from a website not just the latest 10 or 20. Is there a way to do this? Or this something that websites control? And if so, does this mean that fetched articles will be deleted after website publishes new ones?

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[–] wiseguy@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

RSS is more for getting new articles rather than getting all of them. Putting all the articles in the feed would be inefficient if you want to get the latest ones. Most feed readers cache articles so they aren't going to be deleted immediately.

If it's something you really want, feedly stores all articles as long as someone else subscribed to it, but feedly is enshittifed so it's not that great.

[–] flameleaf@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

If you set it up with a reader that can hold onto old articles you can use RSS for this, but you'll have to set up your own time machine if you need that backlog of articles now.