API_URL = f"https://api.torn.com/faction/?selections=armorynews&key={API_KEY}&from={start_timestamp}&to={end_timestamp}"

note that it will only pull up to 100 at a time, which means multiple calls, a for loop would work great

sounds to me like theres some other issue with your code giving you multiple of the same log?

The multiples are likely caused by the default sort order. It defaults to descending, so if you're taking the last timestamp and adding time to it, you'll see the last timestamp again. 

Either do last_timestamp -1, or &sort="asc" and it should be fixed

You want there to be a slight overlap to make sure you don't miss any logs. If you go to the next second, then any logs in the same second as the last one that weren't included in the last call will get skipped

Fair, I use the id's to detect multiples, myself. My answer was more pointed at the reason why he was getting 300+ xanax uses from the same user.

• How do I prevent it from pushing me doubles? My from time is basically the last news line's timestamp +1 (or 3) seconds, but this still gave me weird results (like 300 more xans than they even ever took)

Either the "+" instead of the "-", or the sort order, those are the likely culprits.