Monday, September 15, 2014

[vuhjvylz] Personal RSS downloader

Create a daemon tool which periodically polls an RSS feed (also listens to PubSubHubbub) and archives the articles.  Perhaps it lets you track changes if an article get updated.

Goal is to be able to read articles older than the window in time that the site's RSS feed publishes.

There are plenty of 3rd party services that will do this for you, but the goal is to do it on one's own personal server.  This should be pretty easy.

There might be some AI involved in determining the best polling interval.

Another slightly messy bit if the article is only a link, then we wish to download and archive the linked article.

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