OS X RSS Readers With Feed-Specific Filtering?
Posted on October 23, 2007
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For years I’ve used NetNewswire as my primary RSS reader and for much less time than that I’ve been subscribed to the Digg RSS feed and it has engendered in me a strong desire for an application feature that NetNewswire lacks: the ability to filter individual RSS entries from a feed via some user-definable criteria (I happen to like the idea of using regex).
I specifically never want to see any Digg stories that follow the formula (in pseudo-regex I suppose):
the|top [0-9]+ most|best|worst|greatest|top
Which would remove the following crap from the feed, as a sampling from the past day:
The 7 Most Easily Escapable Movie Monsters
The 30 Most Unsettling German Halloween Costumes
Top 10 Green Movies That Didn’t Set Out To Be
Top 7 Ways To Speed Up Your WebSite!
Top 5 “fake” Commercials
The 5 Most Inappropriate Children’s Videos
Come to think of it, I’d probably just filter out every Digg post that starts with an integer, or contains the word “top”, or ends in an exclamation point, or is written all in caps, or contains the phrase “must see”.
Come to think of it even further, I suppose what I’d really like is a natural-language parser that can simply remove any stories that contain hyperbolic absolutes.
Unfortunately it seems that development on NNW has pretty much stagnated since it was sold to Newsgator so I don’t expect to get this functionality any time soon. Are there any better RSS readers for OS X that contain this functionality?
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