Wat is RSS n RSS FEED?

Is there a way to request that a RSS feed provide more items (further back in time from the most recent N items)?

• I would like to be able to pull content out of a Jive-based CMS that only returns the most recent ten items per RSS feed by default.  Is there something I can add to my RSS requests to ask the server to return more items i.e. further "back in time"? I'm aware that, in general, this is out of scope of the RSS spec http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4244466/how-to-get-the-next-20-items-in-rss-feed but am hoping there's a particular solution for Jive at least.

• Answer:

  Yes, you can append numItems=x to most of the feeds in the system where x is equal to the number of items you'd like to retrieve up to the a max of 200.  The maximum is configurable by the administrator by setting the feeds.max.numitems system property so if you're the admin of the system, you can up that number as well. Cheers, AJ