My URL-to-Markdown extractor returned a cookie banner as the article body — text density has no taste
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Most of my document converters take a file you already have. The URL-to-Markdown one is different: it fetches the page itself and has to decide what the "main content" even is before converting anything. That decision taught me my most humbling lesson so far. My first extraction heuristic was pure…
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- 2026-10-04 23:35 · DEV Community — AI
My URL-to-Markdown extractor returned a cookie banner as the article body — text density has no taste