Can categories be added to posts imported from a feed?

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I am trying to import posts from an RSS feed into Micro Blog. I would like the posts to be automatically tagged with a category.

I am unable to find the option to do this… What is the best way to achieve this?

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Yes, you can. But you need something that’s constant in the content of the feed. Does it contain a URL with a specific domain? Or contain a specific emoji? You can then set up a filter to assign a category.

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Thanks. I am trying to use Scribble as I like the post creator UI there. The imported post has image URLs referring to the Scribbles CDN. May be I can use them to categorise the posts.

But I would like micro blog to import the images as well and store it here. But that is another feature request.

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Maybe the filters need a “source URL” setting, too, for purposes where the content doesn’t contain any differentiating elements #FeatureRequest

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I have the same issue by the sounds of things. Did you ever resolve this issue for yourself?

I have a category filter looking for specific words in a title, but although the posts are importing correctly from Scribbles, the category is not being assigned unless I run the category filter or assign it manually.

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No, I did no proceed with this since the image were not copied, but rather just reference to the one hosted in Scribbles.

However what Pratik said could work — use an emoji, hashtag or some sort of identified and the category rules can do the rest.

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I should note, Micro.blog recently made a change that should be pulling the images in directly now (which would break the Scribbles CDN as a filter).

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I’ve made a new change to filters: the text can now match anything in the URL of an imported post. When you use the feed importer, Micro.blog keeps track of the original guid field of the RSS field for each post. Or for Atom feeds, the id field.

Check your RSS feed of your other hosting provider for the format, but most likely it includes the other domain name. So if your feed is from myblog.wordpress.com, you can use that in the filter to categorize all those posts.

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