Discrepancy between firefox reader mode to readability library.

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Estimated time
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Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, nodejs
Domain
web-dev

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Start by reproducing the supplied PMC article with the shown Node.js, JSDOM, and Readability setup, then compare its output with Firefox Reader View. Investigate why only the References section is selected; done means the discrepancy is explained and a specific correction or configuration requirement is identified.

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Hi all,
I have an unresolved problem. I'm figuring out why, in some cases, I get the desired view I want, a full article in Firefox reader view.
but using node js, with JSDOM, resulting in only part of it.

this is the article I'm using:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6540991/

Firefox is parsing it all, from top to bottom.
Using node-js with this library, I get only the 'References' part of the article.
Are there any more configurations that I should consider?

this is my code:

    const jsd = new JSDOM(doc,{
      url,
      referrer: url,
      contentType: "text/html",
      includeNodeLocations: true,
      pretendToBeVisual: true,
    })

    const readable = new Readability(jsd .window?.document, {debug: true }).parse()

using ff reading view:
image

using the readability library:
image

Thanks!

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