The BBC RSS Feeds are garbage

This must be due to the unique way the Beeb is funded.

I stopped subscribing to all BBC feeds because of this very reason, many, many moons ago.

I love RSS and more so given my accessibility needs so to see and be reminded of how it is abused this way is frustrating

Due to the incorrect way the BBC’s RSS 2.0 feed handles guids, RSS readers are repeatedly left displaying duplicate articles.

Let’s have a look at why this happens with a sample article from their feed

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Gobbler has fetched this article three times. The article hasn’t changed at all: same title, same content, and same published date1, all validated by the content_hash. This is simply not justifiable. There is no reason to change the guid if the article hasn’t changed.

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