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How to get more feeds?

How do I get the next page or more results for a feed?

For example, when I go to the Security Now page, there is no "next" link of any type and the URL parameter "page = 100" does nothing:

http://leoville.tv/podcasts/sn.xml

I get only 1 page of results for about 20 episodes. However, my Google Reader can successfully get episodes that are earlier than this.

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Indeed, it’s true that Google Reader caches elements, and it’s NOT possible to split pages into RSS2, RSS or Atom feeds (if they don’t have rel = next link, which doesn’t look like any of them).

However, we can use the existing Google Reader infrastructure with some work to get a list of 200 items!

Given the podcast URL above, we get the last 200 episodes:

  • Using the prefix ... google.ca/reader/atom/feed instead of the usual view / feed, as shown in your Google reader.
  • Adding n = 200 as a query parameter.

So we have:

http://www.google.ca/reader/atom/feed/http://leoville.tv/podcasts/sn.xml?hl=en&n=200

There is a very astute reverse Google Reader API project located at http://code.google.com/p/pyrfeed/wiki/GoogleReaderAPI

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Google reader caches RSS feeds. You cannot get more from the actual feed if they do not allow it.

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