Url Filters

Url Filters

Here you can input different filters for page and media file addresses, according to which media file search wil be carried out. Usage of filters will allow you to get necessary media files quicker.

You may input filters for excluding addresses for searching/downloading set as well as for making searching/downloading set narrower by means of including filters. If you use excluding filter to address address is rejected, in case address matched at least one excluding filter. If you use including filters to address, address accepts to further processing, in case address matched at least one including filter.

Filters can be of three types: substrings, URL masks, RegExp (regular expressions).

Substrings.
Processing addresses by this filter type substrings enumerated in this filter (like 'thumbs;photo') are searching in address.

URL masks.
Processing addresses by this filter type address is checked for matching mask. E.g. mask *user/mike/photos/???.jpg matches the following addreses:
http://www.server.com/user/mike/photos/001.jpg,
http://www.server.com/user/mike/photos/111.jpg,
http://www.server2com/user/mike/photos/111.jpg, etc.
Masks uses Visual Basic LIKE syntax. Symbols used: * - match zero or more char, ? - match any one char, [a-z] - match char set, [!a-z] - match a char if NOT in set, # - match any digit. You can read more here: Like Operator (Visual Basic).

RegExp (regular expressions).
Processing addreses by this filter type substrings matching pattern are searching in address (in contrast to URL masks where it is necessary to input mask of the whole address). Syntax of regular expressions in Perl-style is used. You can read more about regular expressions here: www.regular-expressions.info or here: www.perl.com.

If necessary you can globally save exclude or include filters with the "Save Presets" button. You can load presets by means of the "Load Presets" button.