mozilla / mozilla/readability

MSN article returns NULL due to (at least) not recursing into open shadowRoots

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Description

MSN article https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/south-korean-president-apologizes-for-declaring-martial-law-as-he-faces-impeachment-vote/ar-AA1vpHO2 simply returns null without errors.

I'm new to the library, is it expected when article is not readable or is this a bug?

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Research direction

No file or test is named. Reproduce the MSN URL through the library's article-parsing entry point, then determine whether the null result is caused by missing shadow-root traversal; done means a confirmed diagnosis and a clear expected behavior.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
web-dev
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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