Filtering files to download from .nzb's

[KaiUno]

Face it, the good folks over at newzbin won't stop adding samples to their reports. Or .nzb's for that matter.

I consider this a huge waste of bandwith and valuable real-estate on my drives. I delete several gigs of samples each week. Maybe if we could have a filter in sabnzbd+ that tells it not to download them in the first place...

[RXP]

I'd love this, things like Alt.Binz have the option to not download certain files containing a string of letters. Be great of Sab could replicate this behavior.

[switch]

Sounds easy enough, I'll look into it tonight.

[auskento]

Would make post processing a bucket load easier too

At present, i set a 'SAMPLESIZE' limit in the script so it excludes that content, but the more file types i have trying to be handled, the harder it is to find a balance.
SAMPLESIZE is useless when dealing with MP3s (mind you, there is unlikely to be a sample either)

[rascalli]

That will only work when the sample is not in the rar files.

And when it's not , when making the nzb you can just not select the sample
Or when you load the ID , just go into sabnzbd+ and delete the unwanted files.

It's all so easy    but I guess we are all just to lazy   

[KaiUno]

Sticking the sample file in the RAR's would mean stupidity on the posters side. It happens, I know, but not often.

I'm sure though that most of us don't make their own .nzb's. We have reporters do that for us on Newzbin and the like. I'm using sabnzbd+ and some firefox extentions to give me one-click-downloading. I don't want the hassle of deselecting the sample file for every post I add if it can be automated.

Leechers are like nature... always looking for the easiest way.

[switch]

An "Ignore list" has been added, still requires lots of testing, but looks to be working ok.

Setting it up is similar to the Cleanup list. Provide it with a list of matches to look for eg
"-sample, .sample" and if it encounters that anywhere in the filename (actually the subject of the file), the file won't be added in the queue.

[KaiUno]

That was fast!  Can't wait for the next beta release.

[Dan]

An "Ignore list" has been added, still requires lots of testing, but looks to be working ok.

Setting it up is similar to the Cleanup list. Provide it with a list of matches to look for eg
"-sample, .sample" and if it encounters that anywhere in the filename (actually the subject of the file), the file won't be added in the queue.

You guys are amazing, thank you so much for this.

[rascalli]

Very nice.

I am on unlimited but still is a nice feature

[KaiUno]

But it didn't make it to 0.3.1 RC?

[switch]

No sorry, will be in 0.4.0.

Also I think I will change it from a list of files to ignore, to just a toggle to ignore samples.
I cannot think of any other files people would want to ignore (small files such as nfo sfv nzb files should be deleted rather than ignored due to the way ignoring works).

If anyone needs to ignore other types of files, please let me know and i will keep it as a list.

[KaiUno]

Good enough for me! 

[doubledrat]

aren't we just talking about a literal over a variable here?  surely the most flexibility will be from a user definable variable rather than a literal?