• arbilp3@aussie.zoneOP
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    19 days ago

    Hi Tau, that much I knew but some articles’ URLs don’t follow the rules 😆, like this one, which when I put its URL in the URL box it just said ‘Error’. Others say ‘Just waiting’ or ‘One moment’ and nothing happens. Zero_gravitas explained it all to me some time ago but I went back to doing the posting this way because I can make it work. So lol, I’ll keep posting ‘my way’ 🎵 Thank you anyway for reaching out 😊

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      19 days ago

      Oh that’s the headline generator! when you paste the URL in a little bot behind the scenes downloads the webpage and attempts to extract the headline, if it has trouble then it’ll say ‘Error’/‘Just waiting’/‘One moment’ etc

      These errors are usually caused by captchas or anti-bot screening which the bot can’t get past, so the bot can’t make a headline

      Easy thing to do, just copy and paste the headline yourself from the article