[LLM Classification] Skip duplicate LLM calls on no-op feed updates#470
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Some RSS sources re-publish existing articles with no semantic change (reformatted author, tweaked date, new enclosure attribute, etc.). FreshRSS detects these as updated entries via hash mismatch and calls EntryBeforeInsert again, which previously triggered another LLM API call for every such pseudo-update. The extension now stores a SHA-1 of the prompt it sent (plus the exact list of tags it assigned) on each classified entry, under the 'llm_classification' attribute namespace. On a feed update of an already-classified entry: - if the new prompt hashes to the same value, the prior tags are restored and no LLM call is made; - otherwise, behaviour follows the new 'Re-classify when content changes' toggle (default on): call the LLM and refresh, or keep the prior tags untouched. When re-classifying, the prior tag list is used to remove only those exact tags (instead of the previous prefix-based heuristic), so manual tags sharing the prefix are preserved.
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After the fix, the LLM API requests drop from 4-8k per day to ~800 per day, which matches the number of new articles in my RSS sources. 
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Thanks and sorry for the delay. |
* Remove option (for now) * Re-use existing information instead of additional attribute * Reduce code
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Thanks again. I have made some simplifications, not tested much yet though. Could you please check whether that would still work for you? |
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Declare some accessors as non-empty-string, to make some extension code slightly nicer, e.g. FreshRSS/Extensions#470
Signed-off-by: Adam Tao <tcx4c70@gmail.com>
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Hi @Alkarex I just push a fix. |
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After the fix, the simplification version works now. 
(I installed the simplification version at around 06/30 00:00, and installed the fix version at around 07/01 16:00)
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Some RSS sources re-publish existing articles with no semantic change (reformatted author, tweaked date, new enclosure attribute, etc.). FreshRSS detects these as updated entries via hash mismatch and calls EntryBeforeInsert again, which previously triggered another LLM API call for every such pseudo-update.
The extension now stores a SHA-1 of the prompt it sent (plus the exact list of tags it assigned) on each classified entry, under the 'llm_classification' attribute namespace. On a feed update of an already-classified entry:
When re-classifying, the prior tag list is used to remove only those exact tags (instead of the previous prefix-based heuristic), so manual tags sharing the prefix are preserved.