[FR]: 1 sec increment for the articles with the same date

[Owyn]

Brief description of the feature request

as it was done for #621

it would be great if even items with the date specified would get a 1 sec increment cuz:

situation: 3 chapters got released on the same date
current result:
chapter 7 - date May 15
chapter 8 - date May 15
chapter 9 - date May 15

How it should be (and how it originally is in the xml\json file):
chapter 9 - date May 15 (+2 sec)
chapter 8 - date May 15 (+1 sec)
chapter 7 - date May 15

Basically: - just preserve the order feed items are listed in the feed when the date is the same

example feed:
url: https://genzupdates.com/series/31ad113715e/
Post script: python css2rss.py "#chapters > a" "!Leveling Up With Skills" ~ ~ "span.text-sm" "div.text-xs"
current result:

see how 5 chapters' order are messed up cuz they were all released on April 22

[martinrotter]

Hi Owyn!

Well, something like this could probably be already added with article filters feature, right?

you only have to deduce some "stable" way of generating the amount of PLUS seconds from the information of the article you have available, in your example you could take the number from article title ".... Chapter 97" and adding that number as seconds to creation date

Artificially tweaking article creation dates is just too specific functionality.

Feel free to elaborate.

[Owyn]

I thought about deducing seconds in my CSS2RSS script itself but such functionality in my opinion should be in the very core, like it was done for #621 ,

and there are already dozens of article filters in my filters list - both for specific feeds to whitelist items and common ones to leave only 1 image \ deDupe by title and URL etc - all mixed up in one big pile, and when I want to extend my whitelist for some feed - I already have a pretty hard time finding the exact filter, or when I add a new feed - I already have to find 3+ common filters to apply to it just to get the basic functionality of deduplicating by title and url and keeping only the 1st image

plus if a filter is needed for EVERY feed - there should be a question raised - "Maybe it should be a core functionality?"

and there's even a way more specific case which was transformed into core functionality "fix articles dates which are in the future"

as I see it "same date" can appear in any feed any time and there is a need to preserve the order of feed items which the server gave where the date for items are exactly the same

[martinrotter]

I see, well. How exactly would you "preserve" order and maintain stable increments? Do you want to use "order" of articles as they are specified in the source XML file?

XML/RSS standard has no concept of ordering articles within the feed. They can be literally scrambled everytime client requests the file.

[Owyn]

Do you want to use "order" of articles as they are specified in the source XML file?

That would work, I believe
Even if it's not exactly the standard - that's just how RSS generators naturally work - they iterate over a list of items and make them into RSS, usually keeping the original order

Or a simple workaround when adding feed items - check if the previous item's date is exactly the same as the current one and tweak it (-1 sec?)

[martinrotter]

fair enought, i will maybe add this as optional feature with checkbox in settings