optional browser-rendered fetch for the text view on JS-heavy pages?
Author: feder-crCreated Jun 28, 2026Updated Jun 28, 2026
the text view fetches over http and runs readability (text_importer), which works great for normal articles but comes back empty on pages that render the body with js or block non-browser clients. would an optional browser-rendered fetch be worth it as a fallback just for those, feeding the same readability step? it'd be a python playwright wrapper over a patched firefox, opt-in and off by default so nothing changes for the http path. happy to prototype it against text_importer if it's of interest, otherwise no worries.
Source: samuelclay/NewsBlur