codelucas / codelucas/newspaper
Doesn't scrap any article on http://www.nzherald.co.nz/road-accidents/news/archive.cfm?c_id=663
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Description
Either the extracted text is ambiguous or the site shows the error: "Cannot convert html to string"
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the failure against the NZ Herald archive URL in the issue and inspect whether it produces the reported "Cannot convert html to string" error or ambiguous extracted text. Done means identifying and fixing the scraping failure so articles from that URL are handled successfully.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100