Help with filters

[SimbaLion]

Hi, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

I've got one filter which matches some simple strings and stars posts with those words or strings. I've got another filter which matches unwanted strings and deletes posts with those strings, however, posts with the unwanted strings are still showing up.

At first, the delete filter was at the top of the order, and when it wasn't working, I tried moving it to the bottom of the order, and it still isn't working. Matching is happening properly according to tests.

Any help is appreciated.

[JustAMacUser]

Maybe post the regex for us to take a look.

[SimbaLion]

Maybe post the regex for us to take a look.

How would that help? As I said, matching is working properly according to tests.

The regex are things like:

Starred: (blue|red|green)
Deleted: (anxiety|violence|greed)

As I said, very simple string searches.

[JustAMacUser]

Because the "test" button and the actual matching during feed fetching perform differently and depending on syntax one may work while the other doesn't.

So, post your real filters and we can maybe help.

[SimbaLion]

Because the "test" button and the actual matching during feed fetching perform differently and depending on syntax one may work while the other doesn't.

So, post your real filters and we can maybe help.

I did post my real filters.

[JustAMacUser]

What about the rest of your settings: invert, match all, etc.? What field(s) are you trying to match (content, title, etc.)? What are those set to?

If you change the delete rule to star, do the articles then get starred or are they still unmatched?

[sleeper_service]

it's pretty obvious that he doesn't WANT help

[fox]

f D on a feed in question would open feed debugger, post logs here, op

[SimbaLion]

f D on a feed in question would open feed debugger, post logs here, op

I'm sorry I dont understand what f D means, is that a setting somewhere? If there's a way to see logs of the filtering I'll probably be able to solve this on my own.

[fox]

it's a keyboard shortcut you use while the feed is open in tt-rss

when the debugger opens check both checkboxes

[SimbaLion]

Thank you, I gave that a try and while examining the log it occured to me, the posts which have slipped past the filter tend to be several paragraphs, with the filtered word appearing at the very end. Perhaps the issue is that the xml feed does not itself contain the filtered word.

I am going to test using a string of words from the top of the post, this is from a known spammer so it is always the same line of text.

Do I need to escape punctuation? In this case a question mark appears mid-string.

[fox]

it is regular expressions so i'd say yes, ? is a operator

[JustAMacUser]

Do I need to escape punctuation? In this case a question mark appears mid-string.

... So I guess those were not your real regex values...

Just saying, the issue could have been resolved quicker.

[SimbaLion]

it is regular expressions so i'd say yes, ? is a operator

Oh right, I had forgotten. Still, there were no punctuation in my original regex, only simple words.

I'm looking at the log but to be honest I have no idea what I'm looking at, and nothing jumps out at me as the issue, should I post a log excerpt?

[fox]

there should be a "article filters:" thing which should show filters matching each article

don't forget to check force_rehash btw