Feature Request : Filter

[rb-netdev]

Would like to see if we can add a utility to filter out certain types of mails or other options. Sometimes the bot floods due to events that we wish we could specify a configuration or filter ignore these posts or push them elsewhere.

I know someone else requested something as such. Can we contribute to the library with some assistance or fork in general?

[Nathan-LS]

Adding additional types of custom criteria filtering is difficult and developmentally costly.

The architecture of Insight makes it hard to add in any type of custom filtering outside of the defaults provided as this involves adding the additional dialog prompts, database inserts, rewriting of the filtering, etc.

There is a rewrite of Insight in progress called InsightCore that has all of these restrictions removed where every single attribute of a mail can be filtered against. Updates to streams / filters would be done through a web API with JSON thus avoiding the coding complexity of Discord prompts.
Users could theoretically create their own scripts that automatically modify attributes of their streams and submit the changes to the API (ex: location auto tracking changing the proximity feed system).

If you would like to contribute I would recommend contributing to InsightCore rather than Insight as InsightCore is designed to be much simpler specifically for contributions and pull requests.

See https://github.com/EVEInsight/InsightCore