Re: How to determine unique feed item

Jacob Friis <[email protected]> wrote:
>How do you determine an unique feed item?
>
>The easy way is to use the permalink, but what if there are several
>feeds that point to the same permalink?
>
>I'd like to store all feed items, even if a feed comes in different
>versions.

I use
feed+guid+title
If there's no guid use link
If there's no title use substr(description,0,255)

It seems to work pretty well. I occasionally get caught when people do a 
mass change. And also by people who have a single item per day which 
then edit repeatedly.

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