# What is this line for in a Discourse forum's RSS feed?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-this-line-for-in-a-discourse-forums-rss-feed/163191
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 6, 2020, 8:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-this-line-for-in-a-discourse-forums-rss-feed/163191 "2020-09-06T20:45:04Z")
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### Author:  [@T\_Mayer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/T_Mayer)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2020, 8:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-this-line-for-in-a-discourse-forums-rss-feed/163191/1 "2020-09-06T20:45:05Z")
I’m a member of a forum that uses Discourse as its forum software. I’ve been working on a bot that scrapes data from the site’s RSS feed and posts anything new it sees in my Discord server. I have the bot working just fine, but I had a question about something I found while working on this. In a discourse forum’s RSS feed, there’s a line that looks like this:
`meta.discourse.org-post-813192`
I’m particularly curious about what this number means: `813192`.
I’ve tried going to `meta.discourse.org/post/813192`, `meta.discourse.org/813192`, and several other combinations of this, all returning the “Oops, this page doesn’t exist” message.
So my question is, what does this number mean, and what is the point of this line in the RSS feed of a discourse forum?
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### Author:  [@Bcat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bcat)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2020, 5:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-this-line-for-in-a-discourse-forums-rss-feed/163191/2 "2020-09-07T05:39:16Z")
I think `data-topic-id`
`meta.discourse.org/t/163191` [What is this line for in a Discourse forum's RSS feed?](http://meta.discourse.org/t/163191)
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### Author:  [@T\_Mayer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/T_Mayer)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2020, 5:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-this-line-for-in-a-discourse-forums-rss-feed/163191/3 "2020-09-07T05:52:25Z")
> [@Bcat](#):
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> I think `data-topic-id`
> `meta.discourse.org/t/163191` [What is this line for in a Discourse forum's RSS feed?](http://meta.discourse.org/t/163191)
That’s the topic ID, but not the GUID number I see in the RSS feed.
I have noticed that one of the discourse co-founders hearted my question, but didn’t respond.
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### Author:  [@Terrapop](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Terrapop)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2020, 6:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-this-line-for-in-a-discourse-forums-rss-feed/163191/4 "2020-09-07T06:03:12Z")
It’s just an unique identifier and as isPermalink is false it does not have to be a working URL:
> **[W3Schools.com](https://www.w3schools.com/xml/rss_tag_guid.asp)**
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> W3Schools offers free online tutorials, references and exercises in all the major languages of the web. Covering popular subjects like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Java, and many, many more.
The URLs you posted do not work as the link to a post consists of the topic slug, topic\_id, and post\_number (not post\_id).
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2020, 8:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-this-line-for-in-a-discourse-forums-rss-feed/163191/5 "2020-09-07T08:26:35Z")
> [@T\_Mayer](#):
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> I’ve tried going to `meta.discourse.org/post/813192` , `meta.discourse.org/813192` , and several other combinations of this, all returning the “Oops, this page doesn’t exist” message.
I guess you didn’t try [https://meta.discourse.org/p/813192](https://meta.discourse.org/p/813192) 😉
It works as long as you open it in a new window.