elfeed-prune

• Introduction
• Installation
• Configuration
  • use-package example

Introduction

elfeed-prune is a hack that allows you to remove items from the elfeed database. Use at your own risk, elfeed was not designed to support this.

elfeed is a powerful and customizable RSS reader for Emacs. It's performing well with thousands of entries stored in the database, thanks to the design choices that were made to implement it. However, removing entries wasn't considered a use-case and elfeed doesn't provide such functionality.

This package provides the elfeed-prune command, which removes entries that match a predicate from the database. It messes with the internal database structure to remove entries. It's wise to make a backup of your ~/.elfeed folder, this package won't do it for you.

This package was developed against revision 5c05a1e of elfeed.

Installation

Simply clone this repository and put it in your load-path.

This package will never be provided on MELPA, as it is a glorified hack for elfeed. Again, use at your own risk.

Configuration

Variable	Default	Description
elfeed-prune-enabled	nil	Enable the package, otherwise it will perform dry runs only.
elfeed-prune-predicates		List of functions to evaluate if an entry should be pruned.
elfeed-prune-keep-predicates		List of functions to evaluate if an entry should be kept.
elfeed-prune-days-read	90	Read entries older than this amount of days will be pruned.
elfeed-prune-days-unread	30	Unread entries older than this amount of days will be pruned.
elfeed-prune-gc	t	Remove content of pruned entries.

By default, items will be pruned based on their age, or if they belong to a feed that's no longer in your elfeed-feeds variable.

A predicate can be added to elfeed-prune-predicates or elfeed-prune-keep-predicates, which is a function that takes two parameters: an (elfeed) entry object and a feed object that corresponds to that entry.

Any predicate in elfeed-prune-predicates that returns t gets pruned, unless any predicate in elfeed-prune-keep-predicates returns t for that same entry.

Below there are some additional predicates that you could add, using scoring or tagging.

use-package example

  (use-package elfeed-prune
    :after elfeed
    :commands
    elfeed-prune
    :ensure nil
    :load-path "lisp/elfeed-prune"
    ;; :custom
    ;; (elfeed-prune-enabled nil)
    :config
    (defun bram85-elfeed-prune-entry-score-too-low-p (entry _)
      (let ((score (elfeed-score-scoring-get-score-from-entry entry)))
        (<= score -5)))

    (add-to-list 'elfeed-prune-predicates
                 #'bram85-elfeed-prune-entry-score-too-low-p)

    (defun bram85-elfeed-prune-entry-high-score-p (entry _)
      (let ((score (elfeed-score-scoring-get-score-from-entry entry)))
        (> score 2)))

    (add-to-list 'elfeed-prune-keep-predicates
                 #'bram85-elfeed-prune-entry-high-score-p)

    ;; Keep entries that have the 'star' tag.
    (defun bram85-elfeed-prune-entry-starred-p (entry _)
      "Returns t iff the ENTRY has a star tag."
      (let ((tags (elfeed-entry-tags entry)))
        (seq-contains-p tags 'star)))

    (add-to-list 'elfeed-prune-keep-predicates
                 #'bram85-elfeed-prune-entry-starred-p))