RSS Filters and Descriptions

[coreying]

Hey Guys. I've been using RSS filters in Alt.Binz for a few years with a great % of success.
However, sometimes other posters upload duplicate material and something will get downloaded a 2nd time.

Is there anyway to get the RSS filters to also look at the descriptions?
That way you could also filter on things like the "Poster" and "Group", instead of just "Name".

[Hecks]

This has been requested before elsewhere, but I'll +1 it here

Ideally you'd want a mechanism that could filter against any item field for maximum flexibility, even the namespaced ones (these often contain valuable data outside the RSS spec). It would also be handy to be able to view all of the 'raw' fields per item in a separate popup.

Say in the filters, prepend with e.g.:

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@description *foo* | A
@ns:extra *bar* | A

@ns:attr:name:value *moo* | A


Or even just using Xpath notation:

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/description *foo* | A
/ns:extra *bar* | A

/ns:attr[@name='value'] *moo* | A



[coreying]

Yeah, something like that would be great!

[coreying]

Hecks, would you be able to move this thread to the Requests section?

I searched through the existing threads there but couldn't find where this had been requested before. So it'd be good to have this in the correct place.

[icecube]

Regex would be awesome too. But it would have to be a feature that can be turned off to go to normal mode since not everyone is familiar or comfortable with regular expressions.

[Hecks]

Moved.   Regex would also be great I agree, just needs a switch e.g:

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/r /^foo\.[1-9]+$/i | A

r"/^foo\.[1-9]+$/i" | A

r(/^foo\.[1-9]+$/i) | A


Whatevs.

[coreying]

I +100 to the regex request!

Thanks for moving the thread Hecks.

[Rdl]

This has been requested before elsewhere, but I'll +1 it here

Ideally you'd want a mechanism that could filter against any item field for maximum flexibility, even the namespaced ones (these often contain valuable data outside the RSS spec). It would also be handy to be able to view all of the 'raw' fields per item in a separate popup.

Say in the filters, prepend with e.g.:

Code: [Select]


@description *foo* | A
@ns:extra *bar* | A

@ns:attr:name:value *moo* | A


Or even just using Xpath notation:

Code: [Select]


/description *foo* | A
/ns:extra *bar* | A

/ns:attr[@name='value'] *moo* | A



Can I get example of such feed?

[Hecks]

Any newznab site like nzbs.org/rss has stuff like:

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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:newznab="http://www.newznab.com/DTD/2010/feeds/attributes/" >

....

<newznab:attr name="category" value="5000" />
<newznab:attr name="poster" value="dude@somewhere (dude)" />


Newznab API responses in RSS format also have more fields if &extended=1 is appended.

[coreying]

I woke up this morning to find my RSS had grabbed 8 "new" items and had downloaded several GB.
Problem is, they were reposts of stuff downloaded over the past several weeks that someone had decided to report with identical names.

Not really sure WHY this particular person feels the need to do this, but having used RSS on UseNet for a few years now, it seems to be happening more and more.

As time goes on, this feature being requested is becoming more necessary. If people keep up this trend of reposting with identical names, it could pretty much make Alt.Binz' RSS feature useless...