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Ask YC: Filter out RSS noise by keyword

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Our world changes so quickly that RSS is almost a necessary evil.

However, even with a quality news vertical news aggregator (like YC news), there are many articles that are simply not interesting to me.

EG: If I ever see a post about twitter or facebook again, it'll be too soon.

Is there an RSS filter that I could use in front of say, my google reader feed, to filter out articles tha that contain certain keywords like "twitter" or "facebook" in the title / content?

Secondly, I get a lot of dupes (maybe from direct subscriptions and aggregators, like news.yc).

Wouldn't it be great if I could also filter dupes?

Does anyone know of such a service, or would anyone be interested in making one?

I'd love this RSS filter, but don't have time to write it myself...

Checkout Feedity (shameless plug ;) - http://feedity.com with Yahoo Pipes or FilterMyRss.com

Yahoo! pipes does seem to offer the desired functionality. My first impression, though, is that the interface is too mouse heavy (admittedly my main complaint about everything that requires the mouse). I should be able to create a filter without drawing a circuit diagram. And I worry that I won't be able to keep using it without having to tell Yahoo! my password every other week.

http://www.filtermyrss.com looks much more to my liking, although it's a bit low on features. My feeling is that it's about a 10 line perl script: fetch xml with LWP, apply regex, print.

I've actually been looking for something like feedity, but I need control over the code, since I'd want to use it for sites that require authentication. However, my feeling's that this one's about a 20 line perl script with LWP and Algorithm::Diff, so it's not a big deal.

Maybe I'll combine them into a 30 line perl script and get rich!

I use Yahoo Pipes and created a pipe with 20 sources to show only posts with Australia and .com.au. pic here: http://webfuel.info/p.png

I'll release a solution to this problem (among others) in a month or so. If you are interested, drop me a line on my username at gmail.

the thing about Yahoo Pipes [from my experience] is that it only refreshes a couple times a day, so a feed could sit for hours before it's fetched through your pipe. Urg.

Yahoo Pipes

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