It'd be nice if there was a reader that auto-unsubscribed you from feeds after a certain time. I like to subscribe to comment feeds of discussions I'm involved in, but after a while they die/I don't care, and it'd be nice not have to manually unsubscribe.<p>Anybody know of such a beast?<p>Thanks.
I use Google Reader and on my to-do list is to hack together Perl script using WebService::Google::Reader [1] which is based on the "unofficial Google Reader API" [2]<p>It would look at my subscriptions tagged with "discussion" and where the difference between now and the "published" date was over a certain period it would automatically unsubscribe.<p>You could probably do some neat stuff with using different tags to specify the length of time you wanted to subscribe for, etc.<p>I’ll update here if I ever get around to it, but I wouldn’t hold your breath. If anybody else takes the idea and runs with it I’d love to see some code.<p>[1] <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/WebService-Google-Reader/lib/WebService/Google/Reader.pm" rel="nofollow">http://search.cpan.org/dist/WebService-Google-Reader/lib/Web...</a>
[2] <a href="http://code.google.com/p/pyrfeed/wiki/GoogleReaderAPI" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/pyrfeed/wiki/GoogleReaderAPI</a>