I signed up for the archival subscription recently after deciding to migrate back to Newsblur as my primary RSS reader (at least, for high volume and/or low signal stuff)
Something quite confusing is that some YouTube feeds only surface a handful of the latest videos (about 5 or 6), despite the underlying RSS feed containing more items and the only common factor I can see here is that it affects feeds where I’m the only subscriber (and presumably have introduced the feed for the first time to Newsblur’s parsers)
Anyway, there are a few feeds where a history import would be nice
On a side note, I’m glad to see Newsblur is still going strong. I’ve used to on and off over the last like 10 years or so and I’ve still yet to see the backfilling/archive functional be beaten.
Glad you’re a premium archive subscriber! So the reason YouTube doesn’t backfill is because I haven’t built it yet. I don’t think there’s anything stopping me, since I already have API access and the API should surface all previous videos. I’ll see if I can get that done tonight…
Ah, neat to hear! I realised shortly after I posted (and stepped away from my computer) that I partly misspoke and that I guess there’s two things going on here.
One is the true backfill (which I realised may or may not exist given RSS limitations) but for some of these solo feeds, I would expect the full content of their present RSS feed content to be ingested rather than just a small subset as well.
Here’s the channel Blast Processing as an example (NewsBlur)
The regular RSS feed contains 15 items if I’ve counted correctly while only an initial 5 are imported.
I would have expected all 15 to have been imported?
Ok, deployed a full backfill for Youtube, plus I just setup backfill on your account so those youtube archives should be arriving now. Let me know how that goes.
