While making an RSS reader which saves articles, how can I prevent duplicates?

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Published on 2010-05-29T14:11:26Z Indexed on 2010/05/29 14:22 UTC
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Lets say I have a RSS feed which lists the 3 newest questions on SO. At 1 o'clock, the feed looks like this:

  • While making an RSS reader which saves articles, how can I prevent duplicates?
  • Convert char array to UNICODE in MFC C++
  • How to deploy a Java Swing application with an embedded JavaDB database?

At 2 o'clock, this feed looks like:

  • django url from another template than the one associated with the view-function
  • While making an RSS reader which saves articles, how can I prevent duplicates?
  • Convert char array to UNICODE in MFC C++

(duplicate articles are bold)

I want to download the RSS feed every 5 minutes, parse it and save the articles that aren't already saved, but I do not want duplicates (items that remain in the new, updated feed like the examples above). What can I use to determine if an article is already saved? Thanks

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