Confusion around regex formatting

[mshaberle]

I am trying to use regex to match a show from my RSS feed. The regex that I am using is confirmed to work after being tested in vim and regexr.com against the output of the RSS feed, but when put into my .conf file it will not produce any matches so I am confused on what I need to do to it to get it to work.

The section of the .conf file in question is set up as follows:

- url: http://website.com/rss
  regexp:
   - matcher: RegExpression
     download_path: /home/user/downloads/ 

The regex that I am using is /(Name)(?=.+(Quality))/g and is set up this way so I can find the name of the show I want and make sure its in the quality that I desire. I have put it in the .conf file as both the regex just shown as well as (Name)(?=.+(Quality)) and I am getting no matches.

[technoe]

Have you tried it with single quotes around your regex string? Yaml sometimes interprets things you wouldn't expect.

[nning]

The latter variant should work. What should be matched by ?=.+?

Generally, Ruby Regex should work, e.g. https://rubular.com/r/86VLGQZiEWkGkN

[AvverbioPronome]

Uhm, I know this is not the place to ask for assistance, but: is there a way to check if a regexp is doing what I intended?

[Jimmy-Z]

Uhm, I know this is not the place to ask for assistance, but: is there a way to check if a regexp is doing what I intended?

https://regex101.com/

[tkalfaoglu]

Um, are these OK regexes for this program?

1. I want everything from this site:

• url: https://something.somewhere regexp: '.*'

2. from here I only want to download something called "My show blah blah"

• url: https://somewhere.else/rss regexp: /my.show/

3. From here I want to download everything that contains "restaurant" or "big bunch" in the title..

• url: https://somewhere.else2 regexp: /restaurant|big.bunch/

Are these the way they were meant to be used?