RSS Filter (A few Azureus Based Questions)

4 questions please...

1) can someone please tell me how to filter for the show er, without getting
all shows with the letters er in that order (such as colbert etc)?

2) is there a way to better filter for shows such as the daily show and the
colbert report? as with no episode numbers, just dates, this seems to be
bringing up some problems with different date formats in different feeds.

3) to do 'fail' filters for such things as hr and 720p, do you need to make a
new filter for each show and each thing you want to fail, or can you do 1
filter to fail all hr and 720p? (and how do you do that?)

4) my feeds keep saying 'pending' or 'download finished' after only 1 cycler,
meaning after 1 go it no longer searches the feeds, and i have to restart
azureus for them to restart (refresh feed does not work).


i use azureus with the rssfeed scanner plugin.
the 3 feeds i use are; http://thesprawl.se/main/myshows.rss?user_id= ****
http://www.bt-chat.com/rss.php?mode=cg&group=3&cat=9
http://tvrss.net/feed/eztv/

if there is anything else you need to know in order to help me better please
feel free to ask. thankyou in advance for any help you can give me, i don't
often need to ask and feel a little silly for having to do so.

1) er is a tricky one 😉
use the filter "(\\ber\\b|\\be\\.r\\.)" [without the quotes]

in regexp "\\b" just means `on a word boundary` and the extra "\\" chars stops
the "." being treated as an operator rather than a character. ["." in regexp
gets treated as a wildcard for a single char, like "?" in standard command
lines]
this combo means that it will only match on the single, complete, string "er",
or the single, complete string "e.r." and fail on "fooer" and "erfoo" etc

2) another thorny one. there's little consistency between feeds or, indeed,
one episode to the next on how the episode is numbered/dated.
in filter set the type dropdown to `other` instead of `tvshow`, and check the
box for "disable after success".
this should stop the filter from trying to parse the date as a season/episode
string, and it will halt after the first match success. since it reads the
feed from newest to oldest that will stop it re-downloading every old episode
lower in the feeds order.

3) in rss feed scanner the best way to do this is to create a single "fail"
filter to be first in your list, rather than duplicate all the exclusions in
each and every rule.
the first in my list i named `exclusions` and the filter rule as :-

"(ipod|saison|season|episode|temporada|psp|spanish|french|vostfr|hr|720p|264)"

with the mode dropdown as fail rather than pass.
[that rule worked well for me on mininova, where there's an awful lot of
dross to filter out first]
use any terms you like - just enclose the whole thing in () brackets, and
separate each item with |.
that gets interpreted as "match on any one of the | separated items inside
brackets", and the fail dropdown tells the plugin to exclude from further
processing anything it hits on.

4) this one i don't know, offhand. it might mean that it can't parse a feed,
or that the rule set has hit a stop condition halfway through the list.
try disabling feeds so you are only testing one at a time, to see if it's one
in particular thats being problematic.

if it is a proper regex check.. you can do "/^er.+/i" should do the basic job of
finding anything that starts with "er." of course you can build from that.

erm ... i'm guessing the posting mangled your example, or you were
assuming php/perl regex extensions ? the above example, as is, won't do
much useful in a java environment.

were you going for start of string & case insensitive ?

thank you kurai (and novaking) for your help.

evereything seems to be working so far, the exclusion filter worked great and
i found out that this feed; http://tvrss.net/feed/eztv/ is the one that had
problems, the other 2 work as intended when it's not running, so for now i
will just remove it as it's only a back up feed anyway.

i shall have to wait and see about er and the daily show, but so far so good.

thank you again.

erm ... odd. i have it checked as a regular expression (beacuse it is 😉),
and it works fine for me.

you did remove the quotes, right ?

i.e. (exampleone|exampletwo) not "(exampleone|exampletwo)"

i can now answer that, yes, you need to tick the regular expression box. as
the filter in #3 is in regular expression.

yer, it sorted my filters out good, i was doing 1 filter per-show-per-
exclusion. so for example, say i had 5 shows, i would have 15 filters just for
the fails i had, then an extra 5 to actually get the shows. so from 20 down to
6 is great.

aaaah - i see what you mean now. 🙂

and yeah, regular expression (abbreviated as regex or regexp) has a very
specific meaning in the context of computing.

just for people searching to fix the same problem:

using tvrss.com's torrent feeds will cause a feed to stop searching (and display "searching...") when it
reaches an entry that matches a filter. perhaps the torrent link is busted somehow, although copy/pasting
the torrent link from rssfeed scanner did in fact download the torrent file, as expected.

switching to using eztv's direct rss link (above!!) fixed rssfeed scanner's problem and now it works
great!

woohoo for eztv! and azureus, and rssfeed scanner. saving me the pain of actually having a tv and the
annoying crud that comes with it, thanks!

i'd imagine that the ones you had problems with were mininova links, and that
you hadn't unchecked "use url as referer for torrents".