Let feedparser ignore initial "old" stories

social/feedparser/32-feedparse.html

@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@
         <label for="node-input-interval"><i class="fa fa-repeat"></i> <span data-i18n="feedparse.label.refresh"></span></label>
         <input type="text" id="node-input-interval" style="width:60px"> <span data-i18n="feedparse.label.minutes"></span>
     </div>
+    <div class="form-row">
+        <label> </label>
+        <input type="checkbox" id="node-input-ignorefirst" style="display:inline-block; width:20px; vertical-align:baseline;">
+        <span data-i18n="feedparse.label.ignorefirst"></span>
+    </div>
     <div class="form-row">
         <label for="node-input-name"><i class="fa fa-tag"></i> <span data-i18n="node-red:common.label.name"></span></label>
         <input type="text" id="node-input-name" data-i18n="[placeholder]node-red:common.label.name">
@@ -20,7 +25,8 @@
         defaults: {
             name: {value:""},
             url: {value:"", required:true},
-            interval: { value:15, required:true, validate:function(v) {return (!isNaN(parseInt(v)) && (parseInt(v) <= 35790))} }
+            interval: { value:15, required:true, validate:function(v) {return (!isNaN(parseInt(v)) && (parseInt(v) <= 35790))} },
+            ignorefirst: { value:false }
         },
         inputs:0,
         outputs:1,

social/feedparser/32-feedparse.js

@@ -11,11 +11,13 @@ module.exports = function(RED) {
         if (n.interval > 35790) { this.warn(RED._("feedparse.errors.invalidinterval")) }
         this.interval = (parseInt(n.interval)||15) * 60000;
         this.interval_id = null;
+        this.ignorefirst = n.ignorefirst || false;
         this.seen = {};
+        this.donefirst = false;
         var node = this;
         var parsedUrl = url.parse(this.url);
         if (!(parsedUrl.host || (parsedUrl.hostname && parsedUrl.port)) && !parsedUrl.isUnix) {
-            node.error(RED._("feedparse.errors.invalidurl"));
+            node.error(RED._("feedparse.errors.invalidurl"),RED._("feedparse.errors.invalidurl"));
         }
         else {
             var getFeed = function() {
@@ -33,27 +35,32 @@ module.exports = function(RED) {
                     else { res.pipe(feedparser); }
                 });
 
-                feedparser.on('error', function(error) { node.error(error); });
+                feedparser.on('error', function(error) { node.error(error,error); });
 
                 feedparser.on('readable', function () {
                     var stream = this, article;
                     while (article = stream.read()) {  // jshint ignore:line
                         if (!(article.guid in node.seen) || ( node.seen[article.guid] !== 0 && node.seen[article.guid] != article.date.getTime())) {
-                            node.seen[article.guid] = article.date?article.date.getTime():0;
+                            node.seen[article.guid] = article.date ? article.date.getTime() : 0;
                             var msg = {
                                 topic: article.origlink || article.link,
                                 payload: article.description,
                                 article: article
                             };
+                            if (node.ignorefirst === true && node.donefirst === false) {
+                                // do nothing
+                            }
+                            else {
                                 node.send(msg);
                             }
                         }
+                    }
                 });
 
                 feedparser.on('meta', function (meta) {});
                 feedparser.on('end', function () {});
             };
-            node.interval_id = setInterval(function() { getFeed(); }, node.interval);
+            node.interval_id = setInterval(function() { node.donefirst = true; getFeed(); }, node.interval);
             getFeed();
         }
 

social/feedparser/locales/en-US/32-feedparse.json

@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
         "label": {
             "feedurl": "Feed url",
             "refresh": "Refresh",
-            "minutes": "minutes"
+            "minutes": "minutes",
+            "ignorefirst": "Ignore any stories older than restart"
         },
         "errors": {
             "badstatuscode": "error - Bad status code",

social/feedparser/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "node-red-node-feedparser",
-  "version": "0.2.2",
+  "version": "0.3.0",
   "description": "A Node-RED node to get RSS Atom feeds.",
   "dependencies": {
     "feedparser": "^2.2.10",
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@
   "keywords": [
     "node-red",
     "atom",
-    "rss"
+    "rss",
+    "feed"
   ],
   "node-red": {
     "nodes": {