Automatic item tagging

[jazz@…]

It would be great if I could define some rules to automaticaly tag items.

Currently, I can manually define tags for a feed, but I would like to be able to tag some items from a feed in a category, and other items in another category.

The way I see it is to be able to define a regexp pattern:

• with a tag associated
• associated to a feed
• with a flag indicating if the pattern should match the body, the rss category tag...

Some examples of feed I would like to be able to classify:

• Gizmodo (http://feeds.gawker.com/gizmodo/full) according to the category tag
• Slashdot (http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot) according to the slash:section tag
• many others based on the content...

[sdcosta]

I guess you will need to latch onto this plugin hook rss.plugins.items.newiid, find if the category tags and the slash tags exists and then get the plugin to tag them.

[anonymous]

Definitely agree with Sameer. This would be best handled via a plugin hooked to rss.plugins.items.newiid: the plugin's second parameter (the item) contains all the relevant information.

[jazz@…]

I may be wrong, but it seems that the plugins are missing the ability to let the user:

• input the filters interactively (preferably in the feed editor)
• save them in database

[sdcosta]

Yes I agree, we definitely need to code in the ability for plugins to have these two features.

[sdcosta]

The plugin idea has been moved to the wiki. http://wiki.gregarius.net/index.php/Plugins#Plugin_Ideas

#276 covers plugins asking for/storing user options