Comments on: RSS Filter?

By: Frank Spychalski

Frank Spychalski — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:36:07 +0000

hi web man,

the idea sounds neat, but this

HTTP Status 500 -
type Status report
message
descriptionThe server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
Sun Java System Application Server 9.1_02

sounds like you need more debugging…

Additionally, from your whatis page”FilteredRSS is completely free. We will have some advertising on the RSS training pages. But your RSS feeds will be void of any inserted advertising”. I need to go to a training page? Why don’t you add training links? Or rewrite the URLs and every time I follow a link, this is counted as a vote for this entry?

By: web man

web man — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:37:01 +0000

I would like to suggest a great new site that organizes your RSS feeds.
It employs a bayesian filter for RSS feeds where you can train the filter what you like and
what you don’t like. It’s free, try it at http://www.filteredrss.com.

By: amazing development » Still working on my RSS Filter

amazing development » Still working on my RSS Filter — Tue, 09 May 2006 08:43:48 +0000

[...] I started working on my RSS filter again. It’s a rewrite of my php test as a small Ruby on Rails app and using Bob Aman’s FeedTools. All the time I was wondering, if this is really worth spending my time. To me the idea of filtering feeds seems obvious, but it felt strange that there were no other tools around to provide the same service. [...]

By: James E. Lee

James E. Lee — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:35:37 +0000

I’m glad to see others thinking about this kind of thing!

I think a lot of this is too complicated for people who are just getting into feeds, but eventually feed management services will be important, and there’s a lot of thinking to be done on how they should be implemented, and what features they should provide.

I wrote up a “feedmix wishlist” a while back:
http://alwaysaskwhy.com/jameselee/blog/2005/07/metafeeds-feed-mixing_aggregate_multiple_feeds_into_one.html

By: Frank Spychalski

Frank Spychalski — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:36:49 +0000

Sounds cool. As I got other things to do anyway, I will let my filter rest for a while and hope that your aggregator will solve my itch, too. I'm looking forward to trying it...

By: Bob Aman

Bob Aman — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 16:28:00 +0000

Well, to put it simply, I'm trying to build the most powerful aggregator, bar none. I'm hoping to keep things manageable by pushing most of the power features out into plugins, but its already a daunting task, even with the benefits of modularity. IE, it'll be awhile, most likely. That said, it already has all of the basic features found in most simple aggregators, and the basic stuff only took maybe 3 days to write. It's handy having such a flexible base as FeedTools. Mostly I just have to make sure I keep procrastination and yak-shaving to a minimum.

By: Frank Spychalski

Frank Spychalski — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:25:37 +0000

Bob, thanks for the feedback. How long do you think until your aggregator is usable? Do you need any beta-testers?

By: Bob Aman

Bob Aman — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 20:58:38 +0000

Er, yuck. Sure enough, there’s a bug in that code. Should be:

feed = FeedTools::Feed.open('http://slashdot.org/')

Saw it just as soon as I hit submit.

By: Bob Aman

Bob Aman — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 20:52:42 +0000

Yeah, my FeedTools library should be ideal for this kind of thing. This snippet (or something similar) should work pretty well (though I haven't actually tried it, might need some tweaking):


feed = FeedTools.open('http://slashdot.org/')
feed.entries = feed.entries.reject { |entry| entry.content =~ /web 2\.0/ }
output_xml = feed.build_xml()

Actually, I'm in the midst of writing an aggregator based on FeedTools with this exact "itch" in mind (and a few other "itches" for good measure).

By: Frank Spychalski

Frank Spychalski — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 08:07:57 +0000

Kellan, thanks for the pointer to FeedTools. It looks just like the kind of package I was looking for.

By: kellan

kellan — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:15:20 +0000

One of these days Magpie will support this, I've got a prototype of it working. You might check out FeedTools for Ruby it support both parsing and generating. (I've only used the parsing piece)