fyrehawg - 3:13 pm on Dec 19, 2008 (gmt 0)

i just got this solved...i used yahoo pipes and fetched 8 feeds i had already set up by searching yahoo news and creating feeds....i then apllied a unique filter in pipes and it works like a charm...if anyone is reading this and having the same problem..check out yahoo pipes...build a pipe and fetch your feeds..then look under the operator tab and apply a unique filter..you can then check for duplicates by title,author,date,url...etc.....be sure and set the filter to your pipes before actually running the pipe...i didnt do this and for a few days i was thinking it wasnt checking for uniques becasue they kept showing up...however its a cache issue...takes about 30 mins for the unique filter to apply itself if it isnt installed on your pipe from creation.

there are ALOT of cool tools and i suspect you could do nearly anything you could think of with rss feeds if you spent some time getting familiar with the options.

i fed the output rss url for my pipes into a the built in feed display in joomla 1.5 and it works great.