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.

  • John Bray

    Would it be possible to extend the filter to work on the article headers as well as their bodies? The BBC RSS feed labels their video clips with VIDEO: in the header, but filtering against that in your program seems to have no effect.

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