Hi, I just want to know what causes “Failed to parse article” errors and how to work around them, aside from using a laptop/desktop. I still want the convenience of sending articles from mobile to Kindle.
Also, I noticed that when I send articles with images, the images sometimes don’t appear even though the “Include Images” option is activated. What usually causes that?
Here are sample articles:
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/scientists-hostile-new-ideas/
https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/our-research/agents-robots-and-us-how-ai-reshapes-work-and-skills-in-europe
https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/the-organization-blog/how-agentic-ai-challenges-four-rules-your-organization-runs-on
There are different possible reasons.
- Domain is using anti bot techniques to detect non-human behavior (not using a real browser to watch the page). They are doing so because of e.g. content stealing and misuse for AI training.
- For the same reason, the P2k server’s IP addresses might be on a blacklist.
- Site is rendered with JavaScript in the user’s browser. Without that JS interpreting, there is just no plain html to fetch.
- Some pages need login and/or paid subscription to read articles. P2K can’t login with your credentials.
- If the browser plugin also fails, it might be helpful to write a domain specific site-config. This also could help for missing images. Just drop a specific article link in the forum (one threat per domain, please) and describe, what is missing or faulty.
Have you tried the P2K bookmarklet for mobile browsers?