Filter stuff out of an RSS feed - selfoss support forum

I know I can filter (select) RSS entries with /string/, and while I am not a php guru I understand that selfoss uses preg_match, so I might be able to filter out a string with /(?:(?!string).)/, but that seems like it would be a mess for a long list.

Is there a better way? I would really like to have a blacklist of strings I just don't want to see in my RSS feeds using the RSS spout.

Thank you,

Unfortunately, there is no better way at the moment. Advanced filters are tracked in https://github.com/SSilence/selfoss/issues/858#issuecomment-329768432

OK, thank you.

I'm currently pulling my feed using a local client, and using its filters to do the work. I look forward to returning to the selfoss web client some day.

Best,

(replying to myself)

Just FYI,

My suggestion of /(?:(?!string).)/ does not appear to work but /^(?!.*string).*$/ seems to do the right thing. Thus emboldened, I am going to try /^(?!.*(string1|string2)).*$/ next.

And what happened?

It works well enough; I have stopped using the local client and am back to the web interface again. I am currently using:

/^(?!.*(string1|string2|string3)).*$/

I think I've seen one or two occasions where things that should be filtered were not, I'm guessing that there's something specific about those entries (formatting, special characters, etc.) but I haven't seen enough of them to detect a pattern.

Hi Alrescha,

I used your filter, which worked fine in 2.17.

Since update to 2.18 the filter doesn't work anymore.

Do you have the same problem?

regards
cpunke

I had not noticed any changes, but I should add that I cycle in and out of using RSS and the breaking news style of feeds where I was using these filters a lot are now handled by different application.

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