Adding the date to this feed

Feed Creator
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I’m currently using
https://createfeed.fivefilters.org/extract.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fuk.reuters.com%2Fnews%2Ftechnology&item=div.story-content&item_desc=p&order=document
to create the RSS feed for
https://uk.reuters.com/news/technology, but could you please help me properly add the date? Thank you!

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Hi there, the reason this won’t work well here is because the time they display does not include the day, month and year for recent stories. It shows something like: “4:13am BST”. So you can specify .timestamp as the date selector, but Feed Creator won’t produce a date from such dates because it will have to resolve it against the server time and date. This can result in the same item being given a different date on subsequent requests. So to avoid that situation, Feed Creator doesn’t include the date for these items. (It will include them for later items on the site as they list the full date, e.g. “26 Jul 2020”.)

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I see, thank you very much for your answer, it is greatly appreciated. Now I’m using, https://createfeed.fivefilters.org/extract.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fuk.reuters.com%2Fnews%2Ftechnology&item=div.story-content&item_desc=p&item_date=.timestamp&max=10&order=document and, as you said, the full date, e.g. “26 Jul 2020”, should appear for articles once they’re at least one day old. But for now I’m wondering why I still only see 5 articles in my feed aggregator (Akregator), although max is now set to 10? (I also tried Opera’s feed aggregator and it also only shows 5 articles.)

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Hi there,

the full date, e.g. “26 Jul 2020”, should appear for articles once they’re at least one day old.

I wouldn’t rely on this. Waiting for items that don’t have a full date to get old enough so the site uses the full date could mean they get pushed out of the feed completely by newer items.

But for now I’m wondering why I still only see 5 articles in my feed aggregator

On the free plan we only return a maximum of 5 items per request. But you should start seeing new items when your aggregator checks the feed for new items.

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Alright, makes sense. Your free service actually works great with Akregator. Again, thank you very much for your helpful responses and for your very valuable work!

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