TypeError: expected string or bytes-like object, got 'NoneType'

[rhetticent]

TypeError: expected string or bytes-like object, got 'NoneType'

[rhetticent]

Update: Changing line 68 from None to "NoneType" seems to clear this up. This is my first ever pull request, so if it's not the correct way to propose a fix, just let me know! :)

[mathisdt]

Thank you for your detailed description! I think your regular expression is correct, but lacks the necessary escaping. The filtering program is written in Python (as you know), and inside Python Strings a single backslash \ (which you want as the first character in your regex) has to be written with an escaping character before - which also is a backslash.

Your filter should work when it is defined like this in config.ini:

[ALL-Sonos]
titleRegex = \\bsonos\\b

For reference: at the top of Python's regular expression module documentation, there is a short explanation of the necessary escaping. The script can't use the simplified "raw string" notation because the strings are loaded from the .ini file, so the escaping cannot be circumvented. (I have updated the readme to direct anyone struggling with this to the same link.)

Please comment whether this helped you or not.

[rhetticent]

Thanks so much for the follow up! I did some more digging last night and found the culprit by testing filters on each feed, one-by-one. It turned out to be a misbehaving article from a Tumblr blog that came in with no title. Since Tumblr posts can contain just a photo, I'm guessing the function bugged out when it came across this title-less post.

Once I found the offending feed, as soon as I marked this one article as "read", the error went away.

Just for good measure, I tried it again by marking the offending article as unread and escaping \b's backslashes with an additional \, but it failed in the same manner as before. No worries though - it seems to be a pretty obscure edge case, so I'll probably just keep it in mind if I see failures in the future. :)

(Sidebar - thanks so much for building this tool. It's a massive time saver for me!)