: Utility to pull in the entries of an rss feed with a certain date range I'd like to include a section on my daily blog post that could capture/aggregate my activity from twitter, github, etc

@Kristi941

I've never pulled activity data out of Github, so the below only applies directly to Twitter. I would imagine a lot of it is more or less the same for Github, though.


I wouldn't rely on RSS for anything from Twitter. They've been killing it off ever since they started previewing NewTwitter. I actually think it's entirely gone now except for a few places where you can still hack URLs if you know what the old patterns were, so I'm surprised you're even posing the question this way.
No. I can't even find a feed for account statuses right now, but I doubt they ever returned more than maybe 15 items. Beyond that, Twitter currently limits access to historical data to 3200 updates; if you have more than that, you just plain can't get at them by any method at the moment. This is "being worked on" but is clearly not anything like a priority. So yeah, you need to come up with a way to stash your own copies, if this "day in Twitter" block is something that needs to be persistent per-post.
There are plenty of widgets for embedding Twitter information, for just about any given language, but I don't think I've seen one that lets you filter by date, probably because it doesn't make much sense to even try most times. Twitter is fundamentally focused on "now" and so are the great majority of tools built around it.
My initial instinct would be to see if it'd be possible to use ThinkUp for this. In theory, you'd use it to create a personal archive of your updates and then be able to pull that data out however you want via its API.

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