Hanzoweb now has a feed archiving crawler! Which means you can archive RSS and Atom feeds - used to distribute content and update notifications around the web - such as blogs, photo streams, news, content updates and Hanzoweb itself.Some good examples:
- Your family’s Flickr accounts
- Your del.icio.us feed
- Your technorati keyword alerts
- Your kids first blogs
- Your google news alerts (beats paying a cuttings service)
Quick how to…
To archive a feed in Hanzoweb, use the familiar Collect This bookmarklet grab the URL, tag it and describe it, then click the Advanced tab, select the feed URL you want to archive, pick your preferred scope and click Collect. This creates an archive Agent, which monitors the feed every hour or so and archives all items in the feed as they appear.
Step-by-step how to…
Start collecting a feed using these steps:
- In your web browser, go to the page you want to archive, say, your kids new blog
- Click the Hanzoweb Collect This bookmarklet
- Add appropriate tags so you can find it again later
- Add a description too, if you want to
- Click the Advanced tab in the Collect bar
- Can you see the feed URL’s in the list? If so, pick the one you want to archive
- Select the scope you wish to archive with - we recommend Pageplus, which archives the page linked by the feed, plus all the pages linked from that page, but not other pages on the same site (this is useful for ignoring all the blog archive pages)
- Finally, click the Collect button to start archiving the feed
Once you’ve clicked Collect, Hanzoweb creates an archiving Agent to hold all the items collected from this feed. You can see the Agent in your archive list, but it has a blue background. You can view the items in the collection by clicking Expand.By archiving feeds of your most important content, you won’t lose anything of importance again!