RSS summarization

RSS Feed Summary

Turn RSS items into dependable briefings while preserving GUIDs, canonical links, dates, authors, full-content fields, and revisions.

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RSS ingestion

The RSS record to preserve

Capture the full item before selecting which content to summarize.

Identity

Store GUID, original link, canonical URL, source feed, and a normalized content fingerprint.

Time

Keep publication, modification, discovery, and retrieval times as separate fields.

Content

Retain description, full-content extensions, and a clear record of which field was selected.

Workflow

A practical selection policy

Choose the richest trustworthy source while keeping the feed metadata envelope.

Parse the feed

Use an XML-aware feed parser, retain namespaces, and emit warnings for malformed values.

Select content

Prefer substantial full content, otherwise use the description or an authorized destination-page extraction.

Normalize structure

Convert HTML into headings, paragraphs, lists, quotes, tables, captions, and stable block IDs.

Deduplicate

Combine GUIDs, canonical URLs, normalized titles, hashes, and semantic similarity.

Summarize + verify

Return structured fields and check dates, quantities, entities, and evidence references.

Quality checks

Avoid these RSS mistakes

Most failures begin before the model call.

Do not

Use the title as the only identity, overwrite raw fields, treat retrieval time as publication time, or assume a long description is full content.

Do not count syndicated copies as independent support.

Do

Keep item revisions, parser warnings, source-specific mappings, and content-coverage labels. Use conditional requests and monitor feed health over time.

Show the exact content version used for a summary.

Feed Signals

Complete RSS guide

Parsing, cleaning, identity, dates, content selection, deduplication, and briefing design.