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I need to have the news of some sites like CNN, BBC, and Reuters for my research. I want to know how I can download RSS contents of these sites from almost 10 years ago. I used GoogleReaderAPI but it seems silly.

Thank you for your help.

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… why does it seem silly? – slhck Sep 19 '11 at 11:38
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On a related note, CNN and Reuters only started publishing newsfeeds in 2005. – grawity Sep 19 '11 at 12:00
It's results are not sorted according to the publish date and so they are hard to validate. Also for example for Reuters Business It returns news since 2005 or 2006 but for World it returns results from almost 2009 or 2010 – Shayan Sep 19 '11 at 12:36
Regarding "results are not sorted according to the publish date": the date Reader uses for sorting is the initial crawl time (with a very tiny fudge if multiple items end up with the same initial crawl time). This was done for several reasons, one being that many feeds do not contain reliable time stamps. Incidentally, Reader did not exist 10 years ago, so its archives don't go back that far. – Laurence Gonsalves Dec 3 '11 at 2:52
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News feeds do not automatically come with permanent archives; usually they only contain the latest 20 or so entries. Google Reader might possibly be the only service archiving newsfeeds.

Sometimes the feeds are archived by Wayback Machine, but it only contains periodical snapshots (if you're lucky – every month).

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Another option is the local Library. Especially university libraries, which have subscriptions to hundreds and hundreds of research databases choke full of archived content. – surfasb Sep 19 '11 at 16:36
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