metascraper VS tidy-html5

Yep but there is a fallback to metascraper [0] which does check the HTML tags. However the fallback didn't work in case GPT returns a 1970 date -- I just fixed this! [1]

I think you can now remove the date from your post content and it should still work. If you submit your website again it should do a re-scrape if you changed the content text. Thanks for catching this :)

[0] https://metascraper.js.org/#/

[1] https://github.com/lindylearn/aboutideasnow/commit/8b0ea5b46...

200 {description: 'easily scrape metadata from an article on the web.', publisher: null, title: 'metascraper, easily scrape metadata from an article on the web.', url: 'https://metascraper.js.org'} [[Prototype]]: Object

I am using this library https://github.com/microlinkhq/metascraper but it doesn't catch it.

First of all, we'll use the got npm package to fetch the website content (feel free to use any other fetching library), and the metascraper npm package to extract the metadata:

> After that, pricing starts at $25 per month for up to 15,000 requests.

This is very expensive for any decent usage. I have used tools like metascraper for this purpose and it worked pretty well. Setup just requires throwing a tiny nodejs app on a raspberry pi or $5 server and that can handle tons of requests.

https://github.com/microlinkhq/metascraper

So I included the tidy libraries in my project.

Maybe look into HTML Tidy. It's job is to clean up HTML and convert legacy code to modern form, so it knows about DTDs. You might be able to pass it some options to get what you want.

I've always used tidy for HTML/XML formatting jobs.

Personally I use command that switches the file type to html, and then formats it with tidy. It assumes you're pasting into a new buffer.

I use tidy.

So I installed HTML tidy.

Prune instructs the parser to remove any elements within the extracted article block that look superfluous. This can result in false positives, so we tend to disable it when we've gone to the trouble of creating site-specific extraction rules.

Tidy determines if the source HTML should be cleaned up first with HTML Tidy - https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5. If you're parsing the source HTML with an HTML 5 parser, as we are now, it shouldn't be necessary any more (I think we actually ignore it now). We used it more before when we relied on libxml parsing, which often trips up on modern HTML.