Mass editing feeds or possibility to add custom Regex filter

[nzbtuxnews]

I have over a hundred of sources I would like to monitor with Changedetection. Most are forum threads while others are simple dynamic pages (those you scroll and they load as you go)..

The standard triggers are to notify when lines are added/replaced/changed or removed. This creates a surreal amount of change notifications. I tried adding a REGEX in one of the forum threads that I want to monitor, and it seems to work. I added something like

title="Showing results 1 to [0-9]+ of [0-9]+"

Which represents, in the webpage code, the number of replies in the thread. When someone replies, the number increases (or changes) and I get notified.

Issue is, I cant find a way to either do a mass edit and add the regex in the "Filters & Triggers > Text Filtering > Trigger/wait for text" field or better, import via xlsx with the regex in a column...

Manually editing each source one by one will take days...

How to go about this? What would be the best way to achieve this? I'm surprised Changedetection cant yet do mass edits or have the possibility to import a regex in the "import" feature... Hopefully in the future it will be capable!

Cheers

[darknetehf]

Use the API to perform bulk updates.
A basic overview here: https://changedetection.io/docs/api_v1/index.html

Regarding forum counters, I have the same issue but you can discard some HTML using an appropriate xpath selector. Look at the source code to identify the items you want to discard. For example to discard a DIV that contains a specific class you can use something like this in the Remove elements section:
//div[contains(@class, 'class_name')]

PS: if the forum has a RSS flux, you could monitor that source instead. For example to monitor MyBB RSS I use a xpath selector like this: //item/title/text() to just fetch the thread titles.