Block rules based off of other elements (not just title).

[toastal]

• I have read this document: https://miniflux.app/opinionated.html#feature-request

Block filters only work against titles. I would like to see this extended to additional elements.

Specific use case: I’m subscribed to a Discourse & there’s a particular user that posts to the point of spam (ideally these sorts of posts would be better asked in IRC or similar). Discourse’s titles do not include the postmaker for Miniflux to match on. If I could however match the <dc:creator> element, I could hide all posts made by user.

A tangential issue is #1291 but this would match on the feed itself, and not download+parse+match the external page.

[xfzv]

Since 2.1.0, filters also apply to tags and authors:

Update entry processor to allow blocking/keeping entries by tags and/or authors

• Update entry processor to allow blocking/keeping articles by tags #2269
• Allow filtering feeds on entry.Author #2324

I've just tried with a random Discourse RSS feed and it works fine.

Adding (?i)JPD as blocking rule results in this post from user JPD not being displayed for me.

[yrmuq]

@xfzv but if author name and title are similar?
Author with name "opel" and titles with car "opel". Blocking rule will block both?

[xfzv]

@yrmuq Not sure but in current state, considering there is no way to specify whether we want to block author, tag or title, I guess it would block both indeed.