Google Reader Filter

Google Reader Filter script is hosted on UserScripts.org and is updated periodically.

New! v1.1.1

What’s new?

  • Total redesign
  • jQuery integration
  • Added a preference whether to show quick add or not
  • You can now use special characters in a term, without worrying it’ll become a regexp (strings are now checked against both original string and regex string)
  • Better Chrome Support
  • Added logging
  • Bug fixes
Download Google Reader Filter

After I realized I was subscribed to more than 200 RSS feeds in my Google Reader with tons of new content each day, I felt I needed to do something.

I was obsessed to leave my reader empty and spent too much time doing it (Mark all as read, anyone?).

I decided to write a tiny Greasemonkey script that will help me handle this amount of content, simply be removing items I might not want or duplicated entries, and highlighting items I do want, based on keywords (or Regular Expressions).


  • http://www.websitesalacarte.co.cc/ Lane Lester

    This is a great idea to meet a need ignored for a long time by the Google Reader team. Regretfully, it is not working on my system. The config screen comes up fine; I put in “App” and “app”, and I still see the zillion Lifehacker posts about apps.

    I’m going to install RSSOwl, a reader with filters. I hope it will work for me… at least until I get your script going.

  • Otakustay

    Nice feature, but not well compatible with east-asia characters, like the snapshot below, it cannot filter out keywords that are nested in chinese characters

  • Anonymous

    You have a Regex support for this, you could do:
    .*#.*
    where # stands for a character.

  • arndale

    Great script. Thanks. One thing I’d love is to be able to set the hi-light colour. At the moment every time you do an update I go into the code and change the section…
    .entry-highlighted div.collapsed{background-color:#E6EFCF!important;}.entry-highlighted div.collapsed *{color:#000!important;background-color:#E6EFCF;}
    I then change the #E6EFCF on both lines to #00FF00 so it shows up in bright green, as I find it easier to see.

  • Felix

    hi, this is an awesome script!
    but the button dissapeared all of a sudden :o
    i have no idea of what caused this.
    uninstalling and reinstalling won’t work.

  • Anonymous

    Thank you!
    What browser/version/os? What other extensions are installed?

  • Felix

    I am using google chrome (12.0.742.122)    and windows 7 ultimate x64
    Google Reader Filter - Version: 1.1.2

    other extensions; 
    *Fast YouTube Search*Google Calendar Checker*Google Dictionary*Google Tasks *Google Translate *Mini Google Maps *Mini Maps*RSS Subscription Extension (by google)*Smooth Gestures                   (for easy mouse shortcuts)*Start!                                        (other layout when opening a new tab)*StumbleUpon *Tokyo Toshokan Latest Torrents *TooManyTabs for Chrome *Turn Off the Lights (for youtube)And thank you for the fast reply!

  • Felix

    I am using google chrome (12.0.742.122)    and windows 7 ultimate x64
    Google Reader Filter – Version: 1.1.2

    other extensions; 
    *Fast YouTube Search                                    *Google Calendar Checker                                             *Google Dictionary*Google Tasks                                    *Google Translate *Mini Google Maps                                                *Mini Maps                                                                         
    *RSS Subscription Extension (by google)                             *Smooth Gestures                   (for easy mouse shortcuts)                *Start!                                        (other layout when opening a new tab)                   *StumbleUpon                                                                                  *Tokyo Toshokan Latest Torrents                                                                      *TooManyTabs for Chrome                                                                     *Turn Off the Lights (for youtube)                                                                 And thank you for the fast reply!                                                   

  • Felix

    Can you help plz?

  • Guest

    Bug: “Google Reader Filter” button cover GoogleReader Settings menu.
    #  Google Reader Filter 1.1.2
    , Opera 11.51 Build 1087

  • Guest

    Bug: if i use “Google Reader Filter JS”, GReader native “Edit tags” button doesn`t respond at all.
    # Google Reader Filter 1.1.2 , Opera 11.51 Build 1087utton don`t respond at all.

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