How to prevent this automation from triggering

Configuration
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using this automation:

automation:

  - alias: Notify Rss feed updated
    trigger:
      platform: event
      event_type: feedreader
    mode: queued
    action:
      service: persistent_notification.create
      data:
        title: >
          {{trigger.event.data.title}}
#({{trigger.event.data.link}})
        message: >
          {% set url = trigger.event.data.feed_url.split('https://')[1] %}
          {% set source = {'www.home-assistant.io/atom.xml':'Home-assistant',
                           'hasspodcast.io/feed/podcast':'Hass podcast',
                           'www.gdacs.org/xml/rss.xml':'GDACS'} %}
          ![image](/local/various/rss_icon.png) {{as_timestamp(now())|timestamp_custom('%X %d-%b-%Y', true)}}: New Rss feed for [{{source[url]}}]({{trigger.event.data.link}})

#          Event.data: {{trigger.event.data}}
#https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=TC&eventid=1000743
        notification_id: >
          {% set url = trigger.event.data.feed_url.split('https://')[1] %}
          {% set source = {'www.home-assistant.io/atom.xml':'Home-assistant',
                           'hasspodcast.io/feed/podcast':'Hass podcast',
                           'www.gdacs.org/xml/rss.xml':'GDACS'} %}
          {% set suffix = trigger.event.data.title[0:5] %}
          rss-feed-{{source[url] + '-' + suffix}}

give me a persistent notification upon a new RSS feed, and almost always works perfectly fine, with a sensible text and link in the notification.
However, every once in a while I see this:

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which I obviously would like to not happen. the link it finds is correct in this case https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=TC&eventid=1000756 and still it show the odd unknowns.

this is in the states:

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What am I missing in the template, or, maybe, should I use as a condition for this not to happen?

thanks for having a look!

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Use a template condition with something like {{"unknown" not in trigger.event.data.title}}. It’ll work fine unless they say that “The hurricane’s ___ is unknown”.

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dont think unknown is in the title, this seems to be more of an issue with the full data coming from the gdacs integration, rendering the template to be unknown ( {{is none}} )

fior reference, this is what a correct notification looks like:

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added Debugging Event data: {{trigger.event.data}} to the message to see what the exact returned data is when this happens again…

update

this is the full data as expected:

22:26:32 02-Jan-2021: New Rss feed for GDACS
Debugging Event data: {'title': 'Green alert for tropical cyclone DANILO-21. Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 0.', 'title_detail': {'type': 'text/plain', 'language': None, 'base': 'https://www.gdacs.org/xml/rss.xml', 'value': 'Green alert for tropical cyclone DANILO-21. Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 0.'}, 'summary': 'From 01/01/2021 to 02/01/2021, a Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 130 km/h) DANILO-21 was active in SWIndian. The cyclone affects these countries: [unknown] (vulnerability [unknown]). Estimated population affected by category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 0.', 'summary_detail': {'type': 'text/html', 'language': None, 'base': 'https://www.gdacs.org/xml/rss.xml', 'value': 'From 01/01/2021 to 02/01/2021, a Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 130 km/h) DANILO-21 was active in SWIndian. The cyclone affects these countries: [unknown] (vulnerability [unknown]). Estimated population affected by category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 0.'}, 'links': [{'type': 'image/png', 'length': '1', 'href': 'https://www.gdacs.org/saved/gdacs/tc/1000756/1000756_5_tn.png', 'rel': 'enclosure'}, {'rel': 'alternate', 'type': 'text/html', 'href': 'http://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=TC&eventid=1000756'}], 'gdacs_temporary': 'false', 'link': 'http://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=TC&eventid=1000756', 'published': 'Sat, 02 Jan 2021 18:00:00 GMT', 'published_parsed': time.struct_time(tm_year=2021, tm_mon=1, tm_mday=2, tm_hour=18, tm_min=0, tm_sec=0, tm_wday=5, tm_yday=2, tm_isdst=0), 'gdacs_iscurrent': 'true', 'gdacs_fromdate': 'Fri, 01 Jan 2021 18:00:00 GMT', 'gdacs_todate': 'Sat, 02 Jan 2021 18:00:00 GMT', 'gdacs_durationinweek': '0', 'gdacs_year': '2021', 'tags': [{'term': 'TC1', 'scheme': None, 'label': None}], 'id': 'TC1000756', 'guidislink': False, 'geo_lat': '-11.1', 'geo_long': '72.4', 'geo_point': '', 'gdacs_bbox': '58.4390182745312 84.4390182745312 -27.6993843710741 -1.69938437107415', 'where': {'type': 'Point', 'coordinates': (72.4, -11.1)}, 'gdacs_cap': 'https://www.gdacs.org/contentdata/resources/TC/1000756/cap_1000756.xml', 'gdacs_icon': 'http://www.gdacs.org/Images/gdacs_icons/alerts/Green/TC.png', 'gdacs_version': '5', 'gdacs_eventtype': 'TC', 'gdacs_alertlevel': 'Green', 'gdacs_alertscore': '1', 'gdacs_episodealertlevel': 'Green', 'gdacs_episodealertscore': '1', 'gdacs_eventname': 'DANILO-21', 'gdacs_eventid': '1000756', 'gdacs_episodeid': '5', 'gdacs_calculationtype': 'tropicalcyclonewithstormsurge', 'gdacs_severity': {'unit': 'km/h', 'value': '129.6288'}, 'gdacs_population': {'unit': 'Pop74', 'value': '0'}, 'gdacs_vulnerability': {'value': '0'}, 'gdacs_iso3': '', 'gdacs_country': '', 'gdacs_glide': '', 'gdacs_mapimage': '', 'gdacs_maplink': '', 'gdacs_gtsimage': '', 'gdacs_gtslink': '', 'gdacs_resource': {'id': 'event_rss', 'version': '0', 'source': 'JRC', 'url': 'http://www.gdacs.org//datareport/resources/TC/1000756/rss_1000756.xml', 'type': 'rss'}, 'gdacs_title': 'Event in rss format', 'gdacs_description': 'The event data in xml format', 'gdacs_acknowledgements': 'Copyright European Union. Syndication allowed, provided the source is acknowledged.', 'gdacs_accesslevel': 'Public', 'gdacs_resources': '', 'feed_url': 'https://www.gdacs.org/xml/rss.xml'}