Extracting text from arbitrary websites
The links that we get from reddit go to arbitrary websites run by many different organizations. To make it harder, those pages were designed to be read by a human, not a computer program. This can cause a problem when trying to get the actual content/story of those results, as modern websites have a lot going on in the background. JavaScript libraries are called, style sheets are applied, advertisements are loaded using AJAX, extra content is added to sidebars, and various other things are done to make the modern webpage a complex document. These features make the modern Web what it is, but make it difficult to automatically get good information from!
Finding the stories in arbitrary websites
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