Comment on Help : Self-Hosting RSS Feed for my blog (pls)

gsquirrel@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• 486@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This is not quite true. As I mentioned in my other comment already, each feed entry needs its own unique UUID. You have to generate such a UUID for every entry.

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  • exu@feditown.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Per the RSS specification the guid field is optional.

    And if you do want to provide it, any string works. So just count up from 1, use the title, current date or whatever for that field.

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    • 486@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Thanks for pointing this out. I thought this had to be an actual UUID. Generating a unique string of arbitrary format manually is certainly much easier to do manually without additional tools.

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  • akademy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s pretty easy to create a uuid. There are many ways to do it. Which is best for you would depend on how you’re generating your website.

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• KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Thanks a bunch! I’ll check it out!

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