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it's great!
Thx~

Thanks for the quick response - I'll be emailing you as soon as I can!

This script seems broken. Has it been broken for months?

>> Homero
>> Posted Aug 21, 2008

I tested on it with Google Alert feeds. When you add a Google Alert feed - there's an automatic first feed for each subscription with a set title: "Feeds for Google Alerts"

First I tried out regexes in Exclude and in Highlight. Nothing happened. So I tried out two very basic filters

Feed
feed

I don't know if filters are case sensitive.

I tried "Exclude" and I tried "Highlight" - I checkmarked "Update" - and I refreshed Google Reader. Nothing. Whatever I did - the results were plain old unfiltered feeds.

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questions

1
Will this script be fixed and updated?

2
How can case sensitivity be used with filters?

3
Will url filtering be available? I want to use google feeds to search for torrents. The ability to filter via urls would be nice. mininova for example generates loads of hits I don't want at all...

mininova.org/search/
mininova.org/rep/ [report a problem]
mininova.org/det/ [details]
mininova.org/com/ [comments]

@Elad

Thanks for the info on regular expressions - brilliant!

I'm using Firefox 3.0 with Greasemonkey 0.8.2xxxx.
After install this script I tested with some feeds and I didn't notice any result.
I've used bellow expressions into Lifehacker feed to mark feeds (exclude them).
.*iPhone.*
.*Mac OS.*

Could you help me with that?

This is a great script. A couple of wishlist items:

Can I use wildcards? For example, I'd like to filter anything with "forest", "forests", "deforestation" etc. but if I just insert "forest" it doesn't pick up the others.

Also, the highlighting does not make feeds stand out very much - being able to adjust the colours etc. would be nice.

I am seeing the # signs as well..

I love this script but recently noticed an issue. I get the "#" symbol to the right of every feed. It has a Pink Background. When I disable the Filter Script. It goes away. If I enable it, it shows the "#" symbol to the right of every feed.

Any help getting rid of this would be appreciated. I am running FF3.01

This script is great! Would love a way to *not* filter duplicates...

Am I missing something? The exclude seems to work but highlights don't seem to be doing anything.

I'm afraid this script has stopped working for me :(

It happened either after the update to Firefox 3.0 (.0.1) or Leopard version 10.5.4

Hope it can be fixed soon ;)

Mvh

I take it back.. its simply changed the way it works for me. Before, keywords caused a post to be partially 'whited out' - I don't see that any more. 'Hide excludes' is working fine - there is an indication of a post's existence, e.g. (1), but you can't see the post at all. Great!

I've been trying to filter some New York Times regular features, which always start with a word/phrase plus a colon (e.g., Goal:, Bats:)- the colon is not being recognized. If I include it, nothing gets filtered at all; if I don't include it, other stuff besides what I'm aiming for is also filtered, so I'd really like to be able to use the colon. I'm including the carat for start of line, but that is still filtering some stuff that's not what I'm aiming for.

Also on my wishlist: filtering by story URL string. Example: I'd like to filter anything that has "sports" in the URL - it's impossible to filter all stories by keyword, since articles often include only team names and not the sport. And many team names are also words I don't want to filter if they're not attached to sports stories.

Awesome work, this is the most useful greasemonkey script I've come across.

What would be really nice is if it was able to filter by feed.

Ex: I want to exclude any articles from the "treehugger" feed with the word "furniture", but want to still be able to read other blog posts with the word "furniture" in them.

Is this possible within greasemonkey?

I'd recommend adding 'div.collapsed' to these lines of CSS
.entry-highlighted div.collapsed {background-color:#E6EFCF!important;}\
.entry-highlighted div.collapsed *{color:#000!important;background-color:#E6EFCF;}\

that prevents all the content of the post getting a background as well.

hi, it seems that filters in Chinese characters can not be saved correctly.

Those wishing to have filtered items actually removed from search results can do so by...

Change
.entry-filtered *{color:#BCBCBC!important;}\

To
.entry-filtered *{color:#BCBCBC!important; display:none!important}\

wonderful idea.
the style may need some touch to blend in though:)
and please add https domain to include, thanks!

Barton, if you're looking for expression explanations try looking here.

A little unclear as to how this works. I guess I will just have to look at the javascript code and figure it out. A little more documentation would be nice.