At the moment, there is no mechanism to filter entries.

This would be a cool feature. One of the RSS feeds that I aggregate using Miniflux posts daily summaries. Would be cool to only receive those, if possible.

Other example of another feed I aggregate using Miniflux consistently contains some articles with the keyword "rumor", which I'd love to be able to filter away.

FWIW, currently I use several shell scripts which log into my miniflux server and execute SQL to maintain a table of filter terms, and to run a delete query. Usually I can filter out more than 50% of the articles, which I no longer have to slog through in the miniflux reader.

Totally agree this would be a fine feature!
From some feeds I am only interested in some entries ("selective" filter) and for other feeds I wan't to ignore some entries ("blocking" filter).

I currently use http://feedrinse.com/index-old.php to filter some of my feeds but this doesn't work too reliably.

Yep, this feature could be very useful. I Wrote an external python script which create an XML metafeed file ("metafeed" is a group of feeds with an associated regexp filter). I stop here for the moment but the idea was to present XML files with local nginx server (this part is not tested yet). I think this workaround works but it's heavy...

May be the work done on newsboat can be copied ?

• You can hide a feed.
• You can tag a feed.
• You can create Query wich is a view of tags with filters applied.

Looking at Newsboat, their approach seems pretty good and flexible: https://newsboat.org/releases/2.15/docs/newsboat.html#_killfiles

However, that require some work to integrate something like this into Miniflux.

I created a simple script using the API to mark filtered entries as read. I just run it from cron every minute.

Just in case someone is looking for something too, I wrote a small utility that can also read killfiles and works with the Miniflux API. Maybe it's useful for someone else too.

https://github.com/dewey/miniflux-sidekick

Not directly filtering but related: Another interesting approach is to let the user thumb up/down entries and compute a signal-to-noise ratio for the feed. Later one can sort entries according to the signal-to-noise ratio. Here is how temboz does this which seem to have other nice filtering capabilities, too.

https://nodetics.com/feedbro/ has an "Advanced rule engine" which allows users to add/subtract values (e.g. point score) to feeds. Feeds with high scores get prioritised in the feed list and low scores get de-prioritised necessitating an optimised reading experience.

I came here wondering if miniflux has a similar feature, or whether someone has a hack for this?:

• if yes then please let me know
• if no then I'll create a feature request

Sincerely

In case anyone was looking for a temporary solution (hopefully before this gets implemented) - I created a simple docker image to help with that: https://github.com/tborychowski/miniflux-filter

PR #826 has been merged. Feel free to improve it.