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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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[–] ex_06@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

as you sensed, it's under the website control: readers just check the rss ''file'' and show it to you in a nice way, every now and then they check for new articles and if your readers supports it you can save the older ones as they come

there can be also limits hardcoded in the reader that don't let you take more than x items from a new feed but anyway the most majority of rss files just have the last y items, it's rare that they expose everything (it would be a mess)