CSS Selector Complex Bridge - getting title if its not in the article wrapper

[Dinth]

Im trying to parse this page: https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/two-people-hospital-after-motorbike-9511334
If i put div.article-body in "[Optional] Selector to select article element" i can get article content, but then h1 containing article title is not getting parsed. If i change div.article-body to article.article-main i can get the article title, but the content is messed up. So long story short, it looks like currently the title must be in the content of article, otherwise its not possible to parse it.
So I've got two ideas for improvements of this plugin (which may be convenient for my case, but i strongly believe that they would improve the plugin):

1. "[Optional] Selector for the article title" should be independent of "[Optional] Selector to select article element", that means the title should not need to be inside of article content selector.
2. If article title is not specified in "[Optional] Selector for the article title", then the plugin should us the article title from the link on top-level page, even if "Load article from page" option is selected.

What do you think?

[dvikan]

@LarsStegman @ORelio

[ORelio]

I'm not maintaining the CSS Selector Complex Bridge but the CSS Selector Bridge. However, it seems like the Complex bridge will look for elements inside the expanded article body as you pointed out. @LarsStegman may improve this later.

Meanwhile, you can generate a feed for Essex Live using the regular CSS Selector Bridge:

• Site URL: Home page with latest articles: https://www.essexlive.news/news/
• Selector for article links or their parent elements: div.teaser
• [Optional] Selector to expand each article content: div.article-body

CSS Selector Bridge automatically interprets metadata left in the page for social network embeds, so the title will be set automatically for each entry for most news sites. Seems to work for Essex Live. Alternatively, the bridge will resort to the page title, requiring you to specify what to remove from the title, e.g. - Essex Live in "[Optional] Text to remove from expanded article title".

[Dinth]

Many thanks!