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Offline untermensch

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« on: April 23, 2019, 07:52:54 AM »
Hi,

I have an RSS feed where sometimes already downloaded items get downloaded again. If I refresh the feed, these "new" items disappear, so I can avoid this by refreshing the feed once a week or so.

Is this issue arising because of altbinz or because of the RSS feed?

altbinz version is 0.46.0.4.


Thanks!

Offline Rdl

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Re: RSS
« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2019, 07:59:46 AM »
I am not sure I have all the information. Is the feed on the timer?

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Re: RSS
« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2019, 08:57:50 AM »
Yes, it's on a timer.

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Re: RSS
« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2019, 05:45:13 PM »
Few things can be happening here:
1. rss feed provider serves items with same name and and different url
2. rss feed provider serves last xx items and there are no more then xx new items over the period od 7 days(default recycle item time in altbinz) - after 7 days item is deleted ni altbinz and on new update it's still in those xx items

Solution for 1 is to play with those AD, DD, IDP buttons (check hint for explanation)
Solution for 2 is to raise recycle item time in altbinz for that feed. There is no simple solution for that, so try this one: Close altbinz, open up rssdb.abz (if needed rename it to rssdb.abz.db3) file in misc folder with some sqlite3 db editor. I recomend SQLiteSpy.
Once you open db, dbclick on table main and then change value recycle_items_days for feeds to value which you want. Save db, close SqLiteSpy, rename file back to rss.db, open altbinz.

I hope this helps.

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Re: RSS
« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2019, 07:12:31 PM »
Hi, thank you very much, I think it is #2. What you have explained has given me the idea to limit the age of items in the actual feed, which seems somewhat easier! I will know in a week or so if it is effective... thanks again!