removing articles from feeds with regexp

Alexis · 01-17-2011, 08:30 PM

The RSS feeds from RSS Technica have so-called "Etc" items which do not point to actual stories, but rather are just links to the web etc.
I would like to remove these from the feeds so that they do not get turned into articles.
One way I'd go about it is with a regular expression - the titles for these items all start with "Etc:".
Here is an example feed: http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/apple/
Is there a BasicNewsRecipe method I could use to do this? I might have missed one when going through the API.

Thanks!

kovidgoyal · 01-17-2011, 08:44 PM

get_article_url, have it return None for articles you want skipped

01-17-2011, 08:30 PM	#1
Alexis Member Posts: 11 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Kindle	removing articles from feeds with regexp The RSS feeds from RSS Technica have so-called "Etc" items which do not point to actual stories, but rather are just links to the web etc. I would like to remove these from the feeds so that they do not get turned into articles. One way I'd go about it is with a regular expression - the titles for these items all start with "Etc:". Here is an example feed: http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/apple/ Is there a BasicNewsRecipe method I could use to do this? I might have missed one when going through the API. Thanks!

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01-17-2011, 08:44 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,626 Karma: 28549046 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	get_article_url, have it return None for articles you want skipped

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