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Originally Posted by LlamaZorz
The problem is my feed doesn't limit anything it contains no dates or time data. I can use many different agregators as well as feedbooks and they work great. They get every item of the RSS feed. It is only calibre which limits me.
Here is a sample of the RSS feed. As you can see its incredibly basic and uniform
http://paste2.org/p/634868 |
Update: It totally blew right past me that this was a custom feed. Maybe my rambling will help others.
Let me clarify things. In a news aggregator the first thing it does when you subscribe to a rss feed is go out and grabs all of the
new items. This list of
new items is what I'm referring to when I say your feed limits you to 120
new items.
The list of
new items is what Calibre is able to get via the feed.
If you are using an interactive aggregator, when you scroll back past the
new items it goes and asks the web site for the previous (archived) articles in the feed. When you scroll past that list it will ask for the (archived) articles before that. In very short order you can go back 1000s of articles.
Now if the rss feed didn't have the ability for a webmaster or web host (I don't know who sets it) to set a limit on the initial feed all hell would break loose, one query would return 1000s of archived articles.
Calibre recipes operate within this
new items limit. If you want you can use Calibre to only get 40 of those 120 or use it to only get the articles within the set of 120 that are 4 days old or less , but you can't bust past that initial
new item limit without being more interactive.
Google reader (or other aggregator) is the solution for this. There is a
recipe for Google reader. You know how aggregators keep collecting every
new item sent from the feed. So when the recipe goes to Google Reader it can download however many
new items that Google reader has collected. Currently my Google Reader as 24 new articles from the site that limits me to 10 new items.
I hope I made some sense in this rambling of mine.
Maybe Calibre does have a 120 article limit per feed?