Answer by Ron Hudson for How to detect changed and new items in an RSS feed?
There are two HTTP Features in the documentation for feedparser that can accomplish this:1. Using ETags to reduce bandwidthThe basic concept is that a feed publisher may provide a special HTTP header,...
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It depends on how much you trust the feed source. feedparser provides an .id attribute for feed items -- this attribute should be unique for both RSS and ATOM sources. For an example, see eg...
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Using feedparser or some other Python library to download and parse RSS feeds; how can I reliably detect new items and modified items?So far I have seen new items in feeds with publication dates...
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