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I am working on a online newsreader that allows you to quickly read only important articles from websites and blogs of your choice. Every article gets analyzed and evaluated, and uninteresting articles get filtered out. So you don’t have to read all articles of your favorite websites and blogs – only the important ones will be shown to you.

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Great looking landing page!

So how does filtering work? I guess user would need to provide custom set of keywords? Can they specify Regex? Are keywords used against article title or against the whole body?

If you are matching against article body, do you have any logic that would determine location of "article meat" or "article body boundaries", i.e. would strip out header / footer / ads / comments / navigation links etc?

Thanks!

Thx!

For the first release we analyze the popularity of an article by likes, shares, count of reads, etc. For the second step we analyze also the body.

We are using only RSS, so we have no header/footer/comments/navigation. Ads we remove by converting html to text.

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