Keep one unreadable page from failing the whole web search

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Thorsten Sommer committed 2026-09-14 17:22:49 +02:00
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@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ internal static class WebPageContentExtractor
.Select(x => LimitLength(x, MAX_OUTLINE_ITEM_CHARACTERS))
.Distinct(StringComparer.Ordinal)
.ToList();
var markdown = HTMLParser.ParseToMarkdown(contentRoot.InnerHtml)
var markdown = ConvertToMarkdown(contentRoot.InnerHtml, finalUrl)
.Replace("\r\n", "\n", StringComparison.Ordinal)
.Replace('\r', '\n')
.Trim();
@@ -141,6 +141,30 @@ internal static class WebPageContentExtractor
};
}
/// <summary>
/// Converts the readable part of the page to Markdown.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// Only the call into the Markdown library is wrapped, not the extraction around it: a fault of
/// our own has to keep surfacing as what it is, instead of being filed away as an unreadable
/// page.<br/><br/>
/// What the library throws depends on the HTML it was handed, and it says nothing beyond "this
/// page could not be converted". Reported as an InvalidOperationException, the retrieval treats
/// it like any other page it could not read, which costs this one page rather than the whole
/// search it belongs to.
/// </remarks>
private static string ConvertToMarkdown(string html, Uri finalUrl)
{
try
{
return HTMLParser.ParseToMarkdown(html);
}
catch (Exception exception) when (exception is not OperationCanceledException)
{
throw new InvalidOperationException($"Converting the HTML of '{finalUrl}' to Markdown failed: {exception.Message}", exception);
}
}
private static JsonLdMetadata ExtractJsonLdMetadata(HtmlDocument document, Uri finalUrl)
{
JsonLdCandidate? bestCandidate = null;