BBC news articles not containing full article body
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Description
Example article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0q3k04wxylo
Reader view content begins from half way down the article, paragraph opening with "Motörhead paid tribute to Campbell......", and only contains 5 paragraphs. All the article text and images before/after those 5 paragraphs is omitted.
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue with the linked BBC article and inspect Readability's article-extraction entry point and existing extraction tests. Compare the extracted result with the full article, including the omitted paragraphs and images; done means the complete article body is retained and the BBC example has regression coverage.
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- Tech stack
- javascript
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- content
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100