[Link Filtering]RegEx help

I would like to use Flashgot - Download them all, function more efficiently

Currently when using this I get hundreds of unnecessary things to delete manually.

Hence I thought about filtering out filetypes
but it does not seem to work like I thought it would
some still get through plus some particular cases might cause problem (like ".something.htm" file links)

so I'm thinking about another way to filter out unused stuff

I'm thinking about negative domain filtering
instead of blacklisting example.com
I would instead whitelist example.com so that anything not from example.com will get filtered

the end project would be to do a huge filter for every supported/meaningful host.

here's another way to say it :
IF link DOES NOT CONTAIN rapidshare.com OR megaupload.com OR ...
THEN delete the link
ELSE continue

Is it possible to do that at all ?
Thanks.

[pspzockerscene]

@whismerhill
I think the problem you have is that you get unwanted image-links or so.
By disabeling the "http plugins" plugin in Settings->Hoster you won't ever see those links again

GreeZ pspzockerscene

@whismerhill

I think your request is perfectly valid.

In short, you want to exclude all links that don't belong to a few preselected hosts.

Originally Posted by pspzockerscene

@whismerhill
I think the problem you have is that you get unwanted image-links or so.
By disabeling the "http plugins" plugin in Settings->Hoster you won't ever see those links again

GreeZ pspzockerscene

yeah images and also php documents & http documents

I tried that without much success so I disabled directhttp too
but there's still a lot of them who appear in the link grabber (waited enough time for Jdownloader to get through the whole bunch of links)
I was using the nightly though, so tomorrow I'll reset it to normal to see if that changes anything
Thanks for replying in any case.

@remi
yes exactly
I understand regex a little bit, but not enough to do that it seems
hence the post, to gather some tips or links

[drbits]

These examples might help:

# ignore these extensions
.+?\.php
.+?\.gif
.+?\.png
.+?\.htm[l]?

# the next lines define a collection in the [] brackets, but it is optional (?) so it matches jpeg or jpg.
#eliminate most thumbnails
.*?/tm\_.*?\.jp[e]?g
.*?/th\_.*?\.jp[e]?g
.*?\_thumb.*?\.jp[e]?g

# ignore imdb.com
.*?imdb\.com.*?
#ignore these sites also
.*?imagebam\.com.*?
.*?imagevenue\.com.*?
.*?tubenow\.net.*?
.*?picturetrail\.com.*?
.*?nedds.pl\/img.*?
.*?tinypic\.com.*?
.*?stooorage\.com.*?

They are all filters I have used for selecting whole pages and then using Ctrl+C to copy the links.

Note: The next version of JD will allow you to copy Live Links with Ctrl+C, so you will rarely have to actually use FlashGot.

I'm amazed that nobody seems to understand whismerhill's request.

@whismerhill
Please, post it in the dreams and wishes forum or wait for a mod to move it there, because it can't be done with today's jD.

[drbits]

@ remi,
I submitted a feature request similar to whismerhill's needs months ago.

I was showing how to do the tasks with the current elimination filter.

Is it ?

When I read Jiaz' comment he writes about "enabled/disabled". Does he mean that he wants to reverse the filter mechanism, i.e., instead of eliminating links, also selecting links?

the link filter never really did what I expected of him even with the exact code example that drbits gave
I'm not sure but I think the link filter might just put files as if they were offline in the link grabber ... not quite what I expected

anyway I found a workaround to using flashgot to do that
I know use the "copy links" extension which allows to copy selected or all links of a webpage

[drbits]

I see part of the problem. The filters I supplied are for Linkgrabber, not for FlashGot. Usually, LinkGrabber gets its input from the Clipboard (Copy and Paste).

There is a JD plugin into FlashGot that causes FlashGot to send specially formatted information to port 9666 (the same port as CNL). This information skips most of the Linkgrabber processing.

Because of changes in Firefox and enhancements in JDownloader, it is not clear whether FlashGot will be necessary for the next version of JD.