Possible to display feed posts within a specified date range?

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Is it possible to display the posts in a feed within a user specified date range?

For example, if I wanted to display all the posts from Engadget for the dates of 6/20/2021 through 6/23/2021, would this be possible using Newsblur Premium Archive?

(Nothing special about that date range, I just made it up as an example.)

Edit - to be clearer, it would show the desired posts (clickable) subject line in a pane of the interface.

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Anyone…?

From what I’ve been able to discover, I don’t think it’s possible even with the Premium Archive version. And I really don’t want to spend $100 to confirm it.

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Yeah it’s not, but I really love this idea. I love it so much I want to implement it before the 403 forbidden feed thing. So listen, if I ship the 403 forbidden feed thing (see this thread: Feed Retrieval Problems: 403 Errors - #54 by animaux1), I would love to make this the next feature.

If anybody comes across this thread, please post and I’ll try and get it in. I would love this feature.

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Sounds like it’d be cool!

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Thanks! I’ll be watching for the update.

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Can we talk a little bit more about this feature as in what would you like? How would you like to use it? Do you want to choose two dates to have a range between or do you want single click buttons like last week last month last year or couple years back, etc…

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Samuel - thanks for the reply.

Ideally, there would be a very comprehensive search function which would allow the following parameters to be set (singly or in combination):

  • Date range - a full month would be great, but at least a week (or a single date)
  • Source feed - a single feed or multiple feeds
  • Subject line keyword - with And, Or, Not qualifiers
  • Article body keyword - with And, Or, Not qualifiers (probably not realistic)
  • Read/Unread status selection
  • (probably some other parameters that I can’t think of right now?)

The search results would display the date(s), feed name(s), Read/Unread status and the article subject line(s) in a pane of the interface - just like some email clients. The subject lines would be clickable and take you to the article’s body text - again, just like some email clients.

To set the date range it would have Start and End date boxes that you could either type directly into, or use those little pop up calendars that you’ve probably seen somewhere online.

For a Premium Archive subscription, the search functionality would work for posts over 30 days old.