Netnewswire: Regex filters

Created on 9 Mar 2020  路  4Comments  路  Source: Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire

(Feature request.)

It would be great to have a regex filter to filter out unwanted posts from a feed, for example podcast episode announcements, weekly recap posts, things like that.

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In this closed issue below, I deliberately focused on the GLOBAL filter. Because I know several rss readers with filters for each service / resource / site / source. It's not user friendly as hell. Authors write the same articles on different resources. It is necessary to add the "word" to each and every black lists. This is stupid. In an ideal world, it looks like this: I select a word and press "block" in the context menu. The first thing I will block will be "custom icons ios" 馃槀

Could you add a filter function in the future? (Block words in topic names and content) blacklist of words exclusion is applicable globally to all accounts. issue

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In this closed issue below, I deliberately focused on the GLOBAL filter. Because I know several rss readers with filters for each service / resource / site / source. It's not user friendly as hell. Authors write the same articles on different resources. It is necessary to add the "word" to each and every black lists. This is stupid. In an ideal world, it looks like this: I select a word and press "block" in the context menu. The first thing I will block will be "custom icons ios" 馃槀

Could you add a filter function in the future? (Block words in topic names and content) blacklist of words exclusion is applicable globally to all accounts. issue

I would say it's important to have both global and per-feed filters. There are some topics I want to block everywhere, but there are also, for example, specific columns from specific sources I follow that I would like to be able to block by matching the name of the column in the title _only on that source_

I don't know how complicated they're willing to get with this, but I would love a full filtering system a la Gmail, so I can filter out any combination of:

  • Regex match on title
  • Regex match on contents
  • Feed source
  • etc

A filter function will be amazing. I have some feeds where I would like to see 5-10% of the total articles which I could filter with keywords...

I think the filter function would be a killer feature compared to other RSS client apps and wonder why this issue was closed before.

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