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what news feeds are you using? the requirement from the news feed is there has to be a field <pubDate> in it ... otherwise it won't grab the date and it won't be able to check for duplicates since it checks for the title & the date.

post your news feeds that you are using.

Slapyo: awesome hack many thanks :)

I have a couple of problems:

with the feed from:

http://www.masshibsteria.com/home/in..._rss&no_html=1

I get duplicates. Viz your comment above is it because the feed lacks a pub date?

Also from this feed:

http://sport.scotsman.com/football_h...cfm?format=rss

some of the stories have an apostrophe "Hibees' strike stars will be battling it out for Riordan's crown"

and these stories are repeating and the ' is being replaced by

"Hibees&#x27; strike stars will be battling it out for Riordan&#x27;s crown"

Any ideas? :)

I should add, I've added 3 other newsfeeds without any problem :)

I am using: http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/celebrity

And it does have a <pubDate> in it. It's grabbing the same top story over and over again.

-Andy

ok bobby, here is what i can see.

your first feed has no pubDate field so it is not able to check if it repeats because it lacks that field.

your second feed having the ' and " in the title may be causing a problem because as you noted &#x27; does not equal ' when comparing strings.

i will look into the 2nd problem some more when i get a chance. i have 2 more finals today that are back to back and then i graduate on sunday. will have lots more time after that to work on it.

andy, your problem may be the same problem as bobby ... having the ' or " in the title may mess up when it checks for duplicates. because in the database they are not stored as " or ' but html encoded. while they appear the same, the string is different. i'm gonna look more into this.

Can anyone else get this one to work? http://news.search.yahoo.com/usns/yn...?p=half-life+2

It doesn't appear to be working at all.

-Andy

what does it not do? does anything show up? it appears to have all the proper fields, but it isn't rss, it is rdf which is slightly different, notice the CDATA tags around the title.

Yeah, it doesn't show up at all.. doesn't do anything. It would be cool if this would work, because you can search for specific news. Unless, you know of one?

-Andy