RSS reader with offline storing

Question

RSS is my main way of following blogs around the net, and for that I use GReader. Often I find a post that covers some subject that interests me, or has interested me, but don't have time to read it at that particular moment, so I star it (*) and leave it for later reading.

And that is what I'm intersted in. Apart from the obvious problem that my starred group has about 1000 posts (additional question: is there a way to create a tag which only shows starred posts from that tag?) there is another annoyance. If the author of the original post to which the feed pointed removes some picture or something, google will keep the post, but without any multimedia on it (most often, images).

So I'm wondering, is there a RSS reader somewhere which works as a standalone application and has an option to store a post (item from a feed) offline completely with all images and such (videos and moving content isn't important) ? So i could for example burn its database on a cd, and have it for future ref.

All ideas appreciated on the subject.

Note: GReader in offline mode isn't what I'm looking for, see the missing images part.

Answer 1

FeedDemon

• Windows
• Desktop client
• Google Reader support
• FeedDemon Beta

Answer 2

Newspipe - an RSS to email system - creates offline version of each RSS item, by storing inline images as attachments (well, MIME-multipart files)

There is also an option to, when an item is edited, create another email with a diff (highlighting any removed or added text)

You can obviously archive these the same way you would do with regular emails..

Answer 3

For Opera users, the browser includes a RSS reader based on their mail component. It keeps the messages with their content (images for example), and they can be accessed offline.

I'm using it for some fun RSS, to keep them and read again later.

Though it will probably be a bit limited if you want more organization.

Answer 4

I use rss2email to take my stared articles in google reader and send them to my inbox. I some cases I can read the full article offline. In other cases, it sits in my filter-email box until I get around to it or delete it. At one point I wrote a script to take incoming r2e email and download images and then re-write the img tags to point to a local cache directory for the images.

From google reader, go to Settings then Folders and Tags and enable sharing for stared or a tag you want to use for offline reader. Then feed the URL it generates to the r2e program.

This isn't going to handle youtube clips or non-inlined images. It also has trouble with some css.

Answer 5

I wrote my own, small and simple, to work in posix systems, even never having a network link:

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