codelucas / codelucas/newspaper

`parse` hangs on some files

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Description

Hi, I reported the issue on goose3 . I was hoping Newspaper would not have this problem, but the same issue also occurs with Newspaper. You can replicate the issue by the following lines:

from newspaper import Article
article = Article('https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ma-ji/2dd9689a01c48bf7323b89d4e6b927d5/raw/21f680df041c9816d9d80faa4af599aa90df90be/raw_html.html')
article.download()
article.parse()

System info:

OS Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
Python 3.8.11
IPython 7.26.0
newspaper 0.2.8

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Start by running the provided Python reproduction against the linked HTML file and observe where Article.parse() stops responding. Trace the parse path from Article.parse() to identify the blocking behavior; done means the example completes parsing without hanging.

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Tech stack
python
Domain
backend
Issue type
Bug
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4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
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