use raw string

Author: datawhores

ofscraper/filters/media/filters.py

@@ -265,12 +265,12 @@ def post_text_filter(media):
     for ele in userfilter:
         if not ele.islower():
             curr = list(
-                filter(lambda x: re.search(ele, x.text or "") is not None, curr)
+                filter(lambda x: re.search(ele,  r"""{}""".format(x.text or "")) is not None, curr)
             )
         else:
             curr = list(
                 filter(
-                    lambda x: re.search(ele, x.text or "", re.IGNORECASE) is not None,
+                    lambda x: re.search(ele,  r"""{}""".format(x.text or ""), re.IGNORECASE) is not None,
                     curr,
                 )
             )
@@ -284,11 +284,11 @@ def post_neg_text_filter(media):
     curr = media
     for ele in userfilter:
         if not ele.islower():
-            curr = list(filter(lambda x: re.search(ele, x.text or "") is None, curr))
+            curr = list(filter(lambda x: re.search(ele, r"""{}""".format(x.text or "")) is None, curr))
         else:
             curr = list(
                 filter(
-                    lambda x: re.search(ele, x.text or "", re.IGNORECASE) is None,
+                    lambda x: re.search(ele,  r"""{}""".format(x.text or ""), re.IGNORECASE) is None,
                     curr,
                 )
             )

ofscraper/utils/args/parse/arguments/content.py

@@ -98,7 +98,12 @@
 filter_option = click.option(
     "-ft",
     "--filter",
-    help="Filter posts by regex (case-sensitive if uppercase characters included)",
+    help="""
+    \b
+    Filter posts by regex 
+    (case-sensitive if uppercase characters included)
+    uses raw python string
+    """,
     default=[".*"],
     required=False,
     callback=StringTupleList,
@@ -108,7 +113,12 @@
 neg_filter_option = click.option(
     "-nf",
     "--neg-filter",
-    help="Filter posts to exclude those matching regex (case-styensitive if uppercase characters included)",
+    help="""
+    \b
+    Filter posts to exclude those matching regex 
+    (case-styensitive if uppercase characters included)
+    uses raw python string
+    """,
     default=[],
     required=False,
     type=str,