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Instagram->HTML: photos with no caption are missing a blank name property #131

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aaronpk opened this issue Feb 15, 2018 · 8 comments
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aaronpk commented Feb 15, 2018

Currently when there is no caption on a photo, there is no p-name class set, so the Microformats parser ends up with an implied name that includes all the "liked by ___" junk. Simple fix is to include an empty p-name element so that the consumer will see the blank name property.

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snarfed commented Feb 15, 2018

🎵 hello implied p-name our old friend...you've come to haunt us once again... 🎵

discussed in IRC. evidently this is a good example of how the original implied p-name rules were problematic and overly aggressive. they're working on toning them down in microformats/microformats2-parsing#6. so this would hopefully be a temporary measure (in standards timeframes 😆) until the new rules are settled and implemented. sgtm!

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snarfed commented Feb 17, 2018

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snarfed commented Feb 20, 2018

@kartikprabhu i tried that branch just now, and it works great! e.g. on https://granary.io/instagram/kevinmarks/@self/@app/BfTlf3xBF2A?format=html , it omits name on the top-level item, while current https://github.com/tommorris/mf2py pulls in the full junk string that @aaronpk described in this issue. thank you!

personally, other than that, the main mf2py issue i'd love to see happen is microformats/mf2py#83 . with that, and officially moving the repo to the microformats org, i'd be very happy!

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snarfed commented Feb 20, 2018

...also, of course, i've now realized that while this mf2py feature is great, it doesn't actually quite fix this issue, since this is on the consuming side, where i don't control the parser.

@aaronpk, depending on your usage, you might consider asking granary for format=mf2-json instead of format=html, since that won't have this problem! i'm guessing you reported this on behalf of someone else who's seeing granary html output in a feed reader, though, so you don't have that luxury either.

adding blank p-name is totally reasonable. will do.

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@snarfed thanks for testing. I think with mf2py not including the p-name the consumer can then assume that there is no name and hence it is blank?

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snarfed commented Feb 20, 2018

@kartikprabhu definitely! mf2py consumers at least.

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aaronpk commented Feb 20, 2018

That's great news! And yes, I was specifically asking for the blank p-name property to be added to the HTML so that parsers that haven't updated for the new implied name parsing rules will still get a result that looks good.

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@snarfed just so you know I have moved all experimental coding ( basically things not officially in the mf2 spec ) to https://github.com/kartikprabhu/mf2py/tree/experimental

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