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<p>Using an RSS reader instead of visiting Youtube or other social media has many advantages, including that you have to deal with much less energy-sapping, will-eroding clickbait. Unfortunately feed entries can still have clickbaity titles that can DESTROY your patience! So I wrote a dumb-as-rocks declickbaiter for Elfeed. You WON’T BELIEVE the results!</p>
<p>The Before (The After will SHOCK you!):
<img alt="" src="https://karthinks.com/img/declickbait-before-extra.png" /></p>
<p>The After:
<img alt="" src="https://karthinks.com/img/declickbait-after-extra.png" /></p>
<p>The Code:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-emacs-lisp">(<span style="color: #b8860b;">add-hook</span> <span style="color: #b8860b;">'elfeed-new-entry-hook</span> <span style="color: #00a000;">#'</span><span style="color: #b8860b;">elfeed-declickbait-entry</span>)

(<span style="color: #a2f;">defun</span> <span style="color: #b8860b;">elfeed-declickbait-entry</span> (<span style="color: #b8860b;">entry</span>)
  (<span style="color: #a2f;">let</span> ((<span style="color: #b8860b;">title</span> (<span style="color: #b8860b;">elfeed-entry-title</span> <span style="color: #b8860b;">entry</span>)))
    (<span style="color: #a2f;">setf</span> (<span style="color: #b8860b;">elfeed-meta</span> <span style="color: #b8860b;">entry</span> <span style="color: #a2f;">:title</span>)
          (<span style="color: #b8860b;">elfeed-title-transform</span> <span style="color: #b8860b;">title</span>))))

(<span style="color: #a2f;">defun</span> <span style="color: #b8860b;">elfeed-title-transform</span> (<span style="color: #b8860b;">title</span>)
  <span style="color: #b44;">"Declickbait string TITLE."</span>
  (<span style="color: #a2f;">let*</span> ((<span style="color: #b8860b;">trim</span> <span style="color: #b44;">"\\(?:\\(?:\\.\\.\\.\\|[!?]\\)+\\)"</span>)
         (<span style="color: #b8860b;">arr</span> (<span style="color: #b8860b;">split-string</span> <span style="color: #b8860b;">title</span> <span style="color: #800;">nil</span> <span style="color: #800;">t</span> <span style="color: #b8860b;">trim</span>))
         (<span style="color: #b8860b;">s-table</span> (<span style="color: #00a000;">copy-syntax-table</span>)))
    (<span style="color: #00a000;">modify-syntax-entry</span> <span style="color: #b44;">?\'</span> <span style="color: #b44;">"w"</span> <span style="color: #b8860b;">s-table</span>)
    (<span style="color: #a2f;">with-syntax-table</span> <span style="color: #b8860b;">s-table</span>
      (<span style="color: #00a000;">mapconcat</span> (<span style="color: #a2f;">lambda</span> (<span style="color: #b8860b;">word</span>)
                   (<span style="color: #a2f;">cond</span>
                    ((<span style="color: #00a000;">member</span> <span style="color: #b8860b;">word</span> <span style="color: #666;">'</span>(<span style="color: #b44;">"AND"</span> <span style="color: #b44;">"OR"</span> <span style="color: #b44;">"IF"</span> <span style="color: #b44;">"ON"</span> <span style="color: #b44;">"IT"</span> <span style="color: #b44;">"TO"</span>
                                    <span style="color: #b44;">"A"</span> <span style="color: #b44;">"OF"</span> <span style="color: #b44;">"VS"</span> <span style="color: #b44;">"IN"</span> <span style="color: #b44;">"FOR"</span> <span style="color: #b44;">"WAS"</span>
                                    <span style="color: #b44;">"IS"</span> <span style="color: #b44;">"BE"</span>))
                     (<span style="color: #00a000;">downcase</span> <span style="color: #b8860b;">word</span>))
                    ((<span style="color: #00a000;">member</span> <span style="color: #b8860b;">word</span> <span style="color: #666;">'</span>(<span style="color: #b44;">"WE"</span> <span style="color: #b44;">"DAY"</span> <span style="color: #b44;">"HOW"</span> <span style="color: #b44;">"WHY"</span> <span style="color: #b44;">"NOW"</span> <span style="color: #b44;">"OLD"</span>
                                    <span style="color: #b44;">"NEW"</span> <span style="color: #b44;">"MY"</span> <span style="color: #b44;">"TOO"</span> <span style="color: #b44;">"GOT"</span> <span style="color: #b44;">"GET"</span> <span style="color: #b44;">"THE"</span>
                                    <span style="color: #b44;">"ONE"</span> <span style="color: #b44;">"DO"</span> <span style="color: #b44;">"YOU"</span>))
                     (<span style="color: #00a000;">capitalize</span> <span style="color: #b8860b;">word</span>))
                    ((<span style="color: #00a000;">&gt;</span> (<span style="color: #00a000;">length</span> <span style="color: #b8860b;">word</span>) <span style="color: #666;">3</span>) (<span style="color: #00a000;">capitalize</span> <span style="color: #b8860b;">word</span>))
                    (<span style="color: #800;">t</span> <span style="color: #b8860b;">word</span>)))
                 <span style="color: #b8860b;">arr</span> <span style="color: #b44;">" "</span>))))
</code></pre></div><p><code>elfeed-title-transform</code> can be replaced with something much better, like a grammar aware title formatter (AI or otherwise), or with information extracted from the content or video description of the entry. But I’ll settle for this pareto solution for what was <a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=tF4OdtSuXMg">half an hour of live coding</a> in the dark:</p>

<p>Okay, the above screenshots were chosen as a joke. Here’s a more representative version of the declickbait effect:</p>
<p>Before:
<img alt="" src="https://karthinks.com/img/declickbait-before.png" /></p>
<p>After:
<img alt="" src="https://karthinks.com/img/declickbait-after.png" /></p>