When using eval for the link, if the result of the eval is a string use that directly

[BanchouBoo]

Currently the way eval works for links is it will take the result and continue to treat it as an HTML object to try and pull the href value out of. In many cases, it makes more sense to construct a string for the URL directly instead of returning an HTML object.

For a real world example, I will be using https://twelvemen.neocities.org/2/blog as a reference. Every new post is just a new chunk of HTML on this page, with no anchor links to them. Nowadays, browsers have a feature that lets you link directly to a chunk of text on a page. Using the date text in each post entry, we can link directly to any post on this page, for example: https://twelvemen.neocities.org/2/blog#:~:text=7/14/25

Currently, the argument I'm passing to generate this link in RSS Guard is the following:

$BeautifulSoup("<a href=\"https://twelvemen.neocities.org/2/blog#:~:text=" + item.select_one("td p.grey").get_text() + "\"></a>

As you can see, I have to create a new HTML object using BeautifulSoup so that the script works properly. If it handled string results separately, it could be simplified to just:

$"https://twelvemen.neocities.org/2/blog#:~:text=" + item.select_one("td p.grey").get_text()

[Owyn]

You could just make the link static tho 🤔 e.g. "!http://link"

[BanchouBoo]

It's not static though, I'm generating it based on the content of the HTML for each item.

[Owyn]

I see but from your example

• articles don't come out multiple time a day so there isn't really a need to scroll to them
• the author of the website didn't want people to click\link\scroll to them so you're adding that functionality yourself

[BanchouBoo]

articles don't come out multiple time a day so there isn't really a need to scroll to them

Yeah but it makes it convenient if I want to click on an older post, especially if it is a page that has a lot more entries

the author of the website didn't want people to click\link\scroll to them so you're adding that functionality yourself

This entire script is adding functionality to websites that the authors did not intend

[Owyn]

There are few places which could accept text as well, I'll look into this too