[Support] Historia

[erosman]

@LIINdd

Is there possible to add support (or maybe it’s possible right now, I have not been able to figure it out yet) for removing(keeping out of history) for all the sub websites, for example with YouTube, it saves YouTube.com, but YouTube.com/watchblabla gets filtered out (this is a problem on a lot of websites, Reddit is another example.)

For example with reddit

Removes anything with a path (ie it has something after reddit.com/)
^ means the URL starts with
? means one character so /? means at least one character after /
^https://www.reddit.com/?

You can also use this but above is more precise
reddit.com/?

Above will delete all reddit URLs except the main site https://www.reddit.com/

[erosman]

@LIINdd

is there any possible way to make it for every website with just one line?

What do you mean?
To delete all history for all sites?
That is possible from Firefox Options → History → Never Remember History

Do you mean add multiple sites with one line?
That is possible with Regular Expression but a very long one may not be easy to maintain e.g.

/^https?://(www\.reddit\.com|youtube\.com|example\.org|other\.net)/.+/

[LIINdd (Liindd94)]

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[erosman]

@LIINdd

For future websites not just ones i add myself. So that basically only main sites of websites ever gets saved, the www.website.com and never websites www.website.com/example urls.

I see… Try this one: /^https?://[^/]+/.+/

[erosman]

@LIINdd

That one works like a charm, only problem I find is that it deletes some sites that requires /sv-se etc for their home pages, but that’s to be expected.

Try this: /^https?://[^/]+/(?!sv-se).+/

PS. I updated the previous one

[erosman]

@LIINdd

If I want to add more than just sv-se do I add more (?!examples) before the .+/ or do I just add them next to in some other way?

You are getting into more complicated Regular Expressions

For example: /^https?://[^/]+/(?!(sv-se|this|that|other)).+/

[LIINdd (Liindd94)]

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[erosman]

@LIINdd

I’m kind of impressed this addon can even do this, it’s amazing, thanks! I hope this one works;

/^https?://[^/]+/(?!(sv|en|android|drive|#|se|home|se/sv_se|owa|se/webapps/mpp/home|sv-SE/firefox)).+/

It works, but it doesn’t delete urls after the mentioned home pages, so www.website.com/se/example gets saved anyways, rather than just the www.website.com/se website.

Note:
It is case-insensitive
You have overlapping pasterns
Not followed by se will also be true for se/sv_se, se/webapps/mpp/home
Same with sv and sv-SE/firefox

The Regular Expression is passed to new RegExp() so no need to escape slashes /

try this:
/^https?://[^/]+/(?!(se|sv|en|android|drive|#|home|owa)).+/

So it wont delete these:

http://www.website.com/se/example
http://www.website.com/se/
http://www.website.com/se
http://www.website.com/service (starts with se + ervice)
http://www.website.com/sv/example
http://www.website.com/se/sv_se/example
http://www.website.com/sv-SE/firefox/example
http://www.website.com/se/example
http://www.website.com/
http://www.website.com/#anb
http://www.website.com/home
http://www.website.com/homes

It will delete these:

http://www.website.com/abc
http://www.website.com/1home

It is possible to write as complex a Regular Expression as wanted.

[erosman]

@LIINdd

But I don’t want any history after that to save, for example nike’s website, having that filter rule it saves this aswell;

It would be better to list them one by one… or … you can create a/few Regular Expression/s for it.

Regular Expressions are for advanced users and complex ones are for very advanced users.

You can ask in general forum for help in creating one to your specification.

Once you have done that, if there are any problems in using it in Historia, let me know.

[Lnice]

Will this add-on ever be supported in Chrome or Opera?

[erosman]

@Lnice

Will this add-on ever be supported in Chrome or Opera?

Currently, I only make add-ons for Firefox.

[Lnice]

That’s a shame, thanks for answer.