Numerous duplicate posts in BBC feed

[slammer99uk]

I leave my iMac on overnight to download articles every 60 minutes. I have noticed recently (about 3 months) that there are continual duplicate or even triplicate posts in the BBC news feed window. As far as i am aware I changed nothing at my end.

This si the RSS link - https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml

[Eitot]

I can confirm this. I have checked the database and found that the articles are identical except for the GUID (globally unique identifier) that the feed itself provides. For instance:

SELECT title, message_id, link, date, revised_flag FROM messages WHERE title LIKE '%Belarus opposition leader warns%';

title	message_id	link	date	revised_flag
Belarus opposition leader warns Poland over borders	https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cldddvpgk90o#0	https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cldddvpgk90o	1719161442.0	0
Belarus opposition leader warns Poland over borders	https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cldddvpgk90o#1	https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cldddvpgk90o	1719161442.0	0

Note the final #0 and #1 of the message_id column. I have checked the source of the RSS feed and this is where those GUID values originate. According to the specification, the provided GUID value ought to be treated as a string as-is.

[Eitot]

I don't think that this is something that can or ought to be fixed by Vienna. The entries appear to be identical except for the GUID value. Even the body text is identical. There is no other way to distinguish those articles. I don't understand why the BBC would publish the same entries multiple times. I haven't found a source for this practice of using #<number> either.