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Asked: 2026-05-11T18:18:44+00:00

I am creating a Yahoo! Pipe to a news site but the feedless source

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I am creating a Yahoo! Pipe to a news site but the feedless source doesn’t have a date/time for each item. My RSS doesn’t works very well: each update makes the RSS Reader, Google Reader for instance, to mark all readed items as unreaded again. Perhaps that’s because of the lack of pubDate tag or incorrect guid tag.

  1. How to create a “pubDate” on Yahoo! Pipes when your source doesn’t provide you the data?

  2. How to avoid the “guid” tag overwritting? (you can set the guid in YPipes but then YPipes ignores your guid)

Solution: pudDate isn’t necessary. guid is essential. Even if Yahoo! Pipes rewrites the guid, it will work, because Yahoo! Pipes converts your guid text into a hash value, that do not is modified until the text is modified.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I think the GUID is generated from the link parameter. So it is important to have a unique url for each feed item. If all the feed urls have same link, they will have same GUID.

    I hope that helps.

    I am struggling myself to create unique url. Have you found anyway to achieve it?

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