Strip all content after -ends-

Full-Text RSS
1

I have a feed with a lot of text.

Any text that comes after the string “-ends” is not needed and i want to remove this from the feed including the word “-ends” itself.

any help with the syntax?

thanks
Andy

2

Hi Andy, depending on the structure of the page, you might be able to do this with XPath. Otherwise, one hacky way to do it is is to use the find_string and replace_string commands to end the document early. E.g. in the site config for this site, you would put:

find_string: -ends
replace_string: <!–

Hope that’s some help.

3

ok thanks for this…

I have named my file as:

.capellahotels.com.txt

and i have put this in the custom folder. This is the content of the file:

title: //h1[@class=’title’]
body: //div[@class = ‘content’]
strip: //div[@class=‘lastUpdated’]

find_string: -ENDS-
replace_string: <!–

It doesn’t seem to do anything… am I missing a step?

Andy

4

Hi Andy, can you give us the URL you’re trying to extract from? You can reply here or email it to us at help@fivefilters.org

5

Sure that will be:

http://bit.ly/U8f8qA

Andy

6

Hi Andy, the wildcard naming (beginning with a dot) is intended for non-www subdomains. It will not be used for www. hostnames. So in this case, you should name it simply capellahotels.com.txt

Also, bear in mind that the find_string command is case sensitive. One of the articles I looked at used -Ends- instead of -ENDS-

Hope that’s some help.

7

ok, i have changed that but still doesn’t work… i am looking at the first rss item which has capital -ENDS-

it’s not being truncated … is there something wrong with my code? did it work for you?

Andy

8

Hi Andy, sorry, forgot to reply. If you’re still having trouble with this, can you please email us the URL where you’ve installed Full-Text RSS and the URL of the article which you’re trying to write a custom site config file for. Thanks.