microsoft / microsoft/markitdown
[feature request] CSS selector for links
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Description
Add a parameter which will only scrape the node given by CSS selector
For example for articles I don't need entire page in markdown with a header and footer, but only the article body
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No files or tests are named in the issue. Start by locating the Python entry point that handles HTML or web-content conversion and trace how the source node is selected. Done means a selector parameter can restrict conversion to the requested article body without including the surrounding header or footer.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- css, python
- Domain
- content, web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100