Rss filters

simur612 · Jul 6, 2018

yep, that's the place to be.

Your filter would probably include something like "S03E[0][1457]" for episodes 1,4,5 and 7 of season 3. But of course this depends on the naming scheme used.

randac56 · Jul 6, 2018

Hey

Would something like this work as a filter /true.blood*/i/S03E[0][1-12] Just tried that and it didn't work. Id also like to specify High definition if possible.

I don't understand all the syntax but would like to learn. Can you suggest a site or a thread that goes into the syntax and finer nuances of rutorrent?

Thanks

peshua19 · Jul 6, 2018

Usually the site to look at is
Code:
http://www.regular-expressions.info/. But many sites out there deal with regular expression. There are different tastes, but with time you get a feeling for it.
Currently i am using rutorrent to view my torrents but i am not actively using it for management stuff or rss.

Some hints towards your expression:
/expression/i ... i would put these at the beginning and the end to have the whole expression case insensitive.
[number] ... these are explicit definitions for a digit, so 12 is 1 and 2 but not 12.
A dot stands for any kind of character including a dot itself. The star/asterics for an arbitrary repetition of the character which stands in front of it.

So i would start e.g. with (eps 01 till 19, maybe need two filters if only wanted up to 12)
/true.blood.*S03E[01][1-9].*hdtv.*/i
If you provide a example name ...

lisas4567 · Jul 6, 2018

peshua19 said:
/true.blood.*S03E[01][1-9].*hdtv.*/i

/^true\.blood.*S03E(0[1-9]|1[0-2]).*hdtv/i

simur612 · Jul 6, 2018

Howdy

I have tried both /^true\.blood.*S03E(0[1-9]|1[0-2]).*hdtv/i and /true.blood.*S03E[01][1-9].*hdtv.*/i in the filter box. One of the above filters did work and it started downloading the first 3 episodes of the season. The only small thing is it started downloading in two's. I have 2 eps of everything. One in HDTV.Xvid and one in 720p.HDTV

This is only after changing the way I get feeds (as below) to a proper feed URL from this one particular site.

Also I'd like to ask one stupid question. Let's suppose I've searched and found a particular series that I want say on ezRSS. When I am looking at words with the RSS feed symbol to the left of Search-based RSS Feed [?] Do you right click on it and select "copy link location" from the dropdown and use that as your feed URL. Is that how u are supposed to do it? The only reason I ask is that every tutorial I look at says "get" or "use" your feed URL here, never quite explaining how to actually get it in the first place.

I might be being dumb here but I just want to know for sure.

Help appreciated

Thanks

randac56 · Jul 6, 2018

If you right-click and save the link or click on it and copy the URL from the top. no difference.

A site with many infos and tools concerning regex
Code:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/01/essential-guide-to-regular-expressions-tools-tutorials-and-resources/From there this is nice:
Code:
http://gskinner.com/RegExr/
You mentioned one of the gives filters is working and downloading in two's.

Give me just a second...
replace ".*hdtv" with "\.hdtv"
because ".*" is matching "720p" (any character repeated one or multiple times)

OR just put 720p into the "exclude" box of the feed to stay more flexible in case the naming scheme gets changed

peshua19 · Jul 6, 2018

Hey

Have a couple of weird things happening with the feed.

Firstly this filter /True\.Blood\.S03E(0[1-9]|1[0-2])\.HDTV/i and this one /true.blood.*S03E[01][1-9].*hdtv.*/i both work and supply me with the 1st 3 episodes of season 3 true blood. The first episode is called Bad Blood.

Second. When I scroll down the feed list for the true blood feed then the list only goes as low as S02E02 not S01E01. I thought that was odd.

3rd. If I get /true.blood.*S03E[01][1-9].*hdtv.*/i and substitute *S03E for *S02E in the string to look like this:- /true.blood.*S02E[01][1-9].*hdtv.*/i then I naturally thought Id get the first 9 episodes of season 2. Instead I got episodes 11 and 12??.

4th. If I then substitute *S03E for *S01E then I get no episodes downloading.

I was hoping that this would be a universal string that I could change a few letters and numbers and Id be on my way.

Not the case.

Thanks

lisas4567 · Jul 6, 2018

i'm not sure what you're trying to do but:

regex isn't that hard.

if you want all of season 1 you'd do something like

/^True.Blood.S01E.*/i

if you wanted seasons 1-2 you'd do

/^True.Blood.S0[1-2]E.*/i

there's more than one way to do it but the important thing is to learn regex and how it works...learn to read the regex like you would a language

re-reading your post, it looks like your problem is that you're reading this:

/true.blood.*S02E[01][1-9].*hdtv.*/i

this would match S02E01-S02E19 (except S02E10) provided the first part matches correctly.

if you didn't find this to be so, then you probably are reading the match text wrong. keep in mind having too many ".*" in a regex can lead to matches you don't expect...readlly, though, this should match what i said above.

keep in mind, they may not be downloading because they may not exist on the feed.

it's best to use a regex checking site to see if they are what you want.

simur612 · Jul 6, 2018

I can't speak for your experience but my filters match everything they are supposed to.

make sure your FEED is correct, make sure your FILTER matches it.

if you're not sure, learn regex, or ask.

the simple answer is:

if season 1 is on the feed, and you're not matching it, then your FILTER is bad.

If your not matching it and it's not on the feed, then your FEED is bad.

also, it's important to note, RSS feeds are normally limited by the people who make them.

simply put, they only show x number of enties.

Some will be 10, some will be 20...some will be 100

your feed may only show x number of items meaning season 1 won't be on the feed. RSS isn't meant to be a full history, it's meant to be a rolling history with the newest items first

randac56 · Jul 6, 2018

Thanks alot guys

I'm working on a ebook titled "Sams teach yourself Regular Expresions in 10 minutes.

I'll see how that goes and work with what u have given me.

Thanks

peshua19 · Jul 6, 2018

also, find a good regex checker.

this si what i use:
http://erik.eae.net/playground/regexp/regexp.html

keep in mind it doesn't work with the / /i tags, so just leave them out (those tags are part of php's regex)

lisas4567 · Jul 6, 2018

Howdy

Since I last posted I have been trying to learn Regex. Its a bit complicated so I'm a while off.

My question is if I get a regex string and make a few substitutions why doesnt it work.

Example:- I have been using this string for True Blood Season 3 and it works fine. This is one that someone wrote for me /^True.Blood.S03E.*/i Now I take that and turn it into this /^Flight.of.the.Conchords.S01E.*/i

Now I think to myself why doesnt the Conchord string work. All I have done is changed the words in the string and the series S0 number

Can someone tell me why I cant use the true blood example and simply subsitute. Why doesnt that work?

Also from the reading with regex they have been doing a lot of backslashes \ and you guys are using forward / slashes a lot.

Thanks

simur612 · Jul 6, 2018

saroos1 said:
/xxxxxxx/i is needed bu rutorrent, that why you find it every where.

No. For example, you may use |xxxxxxx| instead /xxxxxxx/. "i" - is a search modifier for case insensetive, it may be absent

saroos1 said:
/^Flight.of.the.Conchords.S01E.*/i is different of /^Flight.Of.The.Conchords.S01E.*/i

You forget about modifier "i".
/^Flight.of.the.Conchords.S01E.*/i is a some as /^Flight.Of.The.Conchords.S01E.*/i
/^Flight.of.the.Conchords.S01E.*/ is different of /^Flight.Of.The.Conchords.S01E.*/

randac56 · Jul 6, 2018

simur612 said:
No. For example, you may use |xxxxxxx| instead /xxxxxxx/. "i" - is a search modifier for case insensetive, it may be absent

My bad... I haven't read the whole notice ^^

lisas4567 said:
/^True.Blood.S03E.*/i Now I take that and turn it into this /^Flight.of.the.Conchords.S01E.*/i

So I don't now why it doesn't work. Maybe copy and past the entry of rss to compare it.

peshua19 · Jul 6, 2018

is it possible that it isn't listed in the standard S01E01 format?

I've run into some sites which do not follow this convention.

Also, if Flight isn't the first word, your filter wouldn't match (though i realize it SHOULD be)

If you used any spaces in the wrong place it wouldn't match either.

lisas4567 · Jul 6, 2018

My RSS feed already has all the Includes and Excludes in it. It worked perfectly in Utorrent.
Now I am trying to duplicate it using RUTorrent. The RSS Feed only finds what I want to download.
So in the RSS Manager, what exactly would I put in for Filter and Exclude?
In Utorrent I did not need to setup any filters...

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