feedcatch: RSS archive
When you subscribe to a feed you usually get the last 10 or so items, feedcatch can change this by creating an archive out of a feed. I suppose if you subscribe to a feed in Bloglines it archives the posts onwards from the moment of subscription…I’m not sure how many it caches, ie. maximum number of posts per feed…but what about past posts.
To see past posts of a feed just alter the feed through feedcatch and you have an archive of all posts, it’s virtually another version of the blog or website that holds all the raw content…you can customise the expiry dates, etc…
See ResearchBuzz for more.
Like Research Buzz mentions, if you do a keyword search on a search engine or use a directory feed, and run it through feedcatch you will have an archived topic index (pass that around to your friends)…so this is moving away from using RSS just for the latest, it is using it to archive topic indexes to share…great new simple application.
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In my experience with Bloglines, feeds stop accumulating at 200, not counting items you’ve marked as ‘Keep New’ … once a Bloglines feed is full of 200 items, you won’t see any new ones until they’re read.
My least favorite thing about bloglines, as certain feeds I read fill up in a day and a half.
Comment by Quacky — August 17, 2005 @ 6:31 pm
What about once you have read an item, how many items does it keep per feed.
You hope it would keep all of them, so you have a searchable archive of what you have read.
That’s the bad thing when someone changes to a new feed, when you update to their new feed you lose all your read entries archive…I guess this is where feedcatch is valuable.
Comment by Johnt — August 18, 2005 @ 2:25 am