Tag Hooks

The last example assumes you’ve tagged posts with ‘youtube’. You probably want to do this sort of thing automatically, either through the "autotags" feature mentioned above, or with the ‘elfeed-new-entry-hook’. Functions in this hook are called with new entries, allowing them to be manipulated, such as adding tags.

;; Mark all YouTube entries
(add-hook 'elfeed-new-entry-hook
          (elfeed-make-tagger :feed-url "youtube\\.com"
                              :add '(video youtube)))

Avoiding tagging old entries as ‘unread’:

;; Entries older than 2 weeks are tagged as read
(add-hook 'elfeed-new-entry-hook
          (elfeed-make-tagger :before "2 weeks ago"
                              :remove 'unread))

Or building your own subset feeds:

(add-hook 'elfeed-new-entry-hook
          (elfeed-make-tagger :feed-url "example\\.com"
                              :entry-title '(not "something interesting")
                              :add 'junk
                              :remove 'unread))

Use ‘M-x elfeed-apply-hooks-now’ to apply ‘elfeed-new-entry-hook’ to all existing entries. Otherwise hooks will only apply to new entries on discovery.