Added support for file with host IDs to ignore.

.gitignore

@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ output/
 dist/
 users
 posts
+ignore

src/app.js

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ async function getFileContents(location, label) {
 
 async function getCompleteUserPosts() {
     let userPosts = {};
+    let ignoreIds = [];
     let usernames = args.users || [];
     let postIds = args.posts || [];
 
@@ -58,7 +59,11 @@ async function getCompleteUserPosts() {
         userPosts = await getPosts(postIds, userPosts);
     }
 
-    const curatedUserPosts = curatePosts(userPosts, args);
+    if (args.fileIgnore) {
+        ignoreIds = await getFileContents(args.fileIgnore, 'ignore');
+    }
+
+    const curatedUserPosts = curatePosts(userPosts, ignoreIds, args);
 
     return attachContentInfo(curatedUserPosts);
 }

src/cli.js

@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ function getArgs() {
             type: 'array',
             choices: ['pinned', 'stickied', 'hidden', 'spoiler', 'over_18'],
         })
+        .option('file-ignore', {
+            describe: 'Ignore the host IDs in this file',
+            type: 'string',
+        })
         .option('include', {
             describe: 'Include only these sources',
             type: 'array',

src/curate/posts.js

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ function report(curatedPosts, indexed, user, args) {
     }
 };
 
-function curatePost(acc, post, user, index, indexed, processed, args) {
+function curatePost(acc, post, user, index, indexed, ignoreIds, processed, args) {
     const host = dissectLink(post.url);
     const permalink = `https://reddit.com${post.permalink}`;
 
@@ -96,6 +96,15 @@ function curatePost(acc, post, user, index, indexed, processed, args) {
         const hostIncludes = args.include && !args.include.includes(host.label);
         const hostExcluded = args.exclude && args.exclude.includes(host.label);
 
+        if (ignoreIds.has(String(host.id).toLowerCase())) {
+            console.log(
+                '\x1b[33m%s\x1b[0m',
+                `Ignoring content '${post.url}' because its ID is specified to be ignored (${permalink})`,
+            );
+
+            return acc;
+        }
+
         if (hostIncludes || hostExcluded) {
             console.log(
                 '\x1b[33m%s\x1b[0m',
@@ -108,7 +117,7 @@ function curatePost(acc, post, user, index, indexed, processed, args) {
         if (config.fetch.avoidDuplicates && processed.has(host.id)) {
             console.log(
                 '\x1b[33m%s\x1b[0m',
-                `Ignoring duplicate content '${post.url}' (cross-post, repost, or superfluous --post ID) (${permalink})`,
+                `Ignoring duplicate content '${post.url}' (cross-post, repost or superfluous --post ID) (${permalink})`,
             );
 
             return acc;
@@ -120,8 +129,9 @@ function curatePost(acc, post, user, index, indexed, processed, args) {
     return { ...acc, posts: [...acc.posts, curatedPost] };
 }
 
-const curatePosts = (userPosts, args) => Object.values(userPosts).reduce((accPosts, user) => {
+const curatePosts = (userPosts, ignoreIdsArray, args) => Object.values(userPosts).reduce((accPosts, user) => {
     const processed = new Set();
+    const ignoreIds = new Set(ignoreIdsArray.map(postId => String(postId).toLowerCase()));
     const indexedByDate = user.indexed.original.sort((entryA, entryB) => new Date(entryA.date) - new Date(entryB.date));
 
     const indexed = {
@@ -130,7 +140,7 @@ const curatePosts = (userPosts, args) => Object.values(userPosts).reduce((accPos
         latest: indexedByDate.slice(-1)[0],
     };
 
-    const curatedPosts = user.posts.reduce((accUserPosts, post, index) => curatePost(accUserPosts, post, user, index, indexed, processed, args), {
+    const curatedPosts = user.posts.reduce((accUserPosts, post, index) => curatePost(accUserPosts, post, user, index, indexed, ignoreIds, processed, args), {
         posts: [],
         indexedUpdated: [],
         tooOldCount: 0,