Extend RSS matching

[mysteryman]

Some of the things I'd like to rss filter work great with simple wildcard matching with *s. Others are a bit harder, some things use the format yyyy.mm.dd inside the name. Old copies of past posts are rarely posted again, but I have had to delete a couple. Sure, I could change the filter every week/month but this kinda defeats the point of filtering for auto-downloads.

Could the filtering be added to take more advanced matching? Here are a few things that would be very handy
1. Subsets allowing ranges [0123456789], [0-9], [abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz], [a-z]
3. Groups (something1|something2)
3. Something that would be easy to define say... todays date and yesterdays date. In case something is a day late. This could be done by allowing various date tokens like %t.mm% %y.mm% etc. Though it would require two rss lines this way, would easier and look fairly tidy.

[Hecks]

Basically, for 1 and 2 you're asking for a regex option for the filters - perhaps with an extra flag for it (e.g. | R |)?  If you've ever used SABnzbd, you'll know that these still need to be updated at some point if you want to prevent dupes. Proper use of Alt.Binz's download history should make this less of a problem.

While you're waiting, try a source that does all the work of identifying new posts and filtering out dupes for you.

e.g. tvbinz(dot)net/collections.php, look at Help for the list of RSS feeds.

[davidq666]

tvbinz(dot)net/collections.php

does it still exist? i don't get any site there...

[cr4zyfr4g]

the site is currently down, wait for dns to refresh

(see pm david)

[mysteryman]

Yes, I would love full regex capability... but I figured that would be asking too much. However, even regex would need variable substitution for date fields, so that would be needed too.

About tvbinz... is that in some way related to this site? It has a similar name, and it gets mentioned frequently. I looked at it once, and it seemed to update a lot slower than newzleech... missing and incomplete items at top of list. I only looked once, so this is only an observation, not fact.

[Hecks]

Nope, unrelated.

It updates every 5 minutes, with a 10 minute delay on RSS.  It's quicker than Newzleech (usually).  Most recent items at the top, as you'd expect, with current % completion. Only 99.9% completed items are published to RSS.

Another automated site with different options:

http://www.nzbs.org (slower to update, only shows completed posts)

And of course the old favorite:

http://www.tvnzb.com (user posts only)

The advantage of these sites over, say, Newzleech or Binsearch is in the RSS, really.  Posts are grouped by dirname, and so are much easier to filter.  2 of them also categorize by new/old posts, 1 filters dupes. Horses for courses.

Anyway, enough of that.

[Rdl]

full regex filter as an option will be added

[mysteryman]

Thank you rdl... being new hereI was beginning to lose faith cause you hadn't been around... glad to see it was only temporary. Keep up the good work