WordPress detection incorrect?

[irfancharania]

Hi!

Thanks for open-sourcing this project.

I was looking through the code and came across this line

https://github.com/postlight/mercury-parser/blob/15f7fa1e27fe6b47c87da40ba4fce9b2db7934ec/src/utils/dom/constants.js#L304

I think this XPath should be
meta[name=generator][content^=WordPress]

Check with examples:

• https://observer.com
• https://uproxx.com/
• https://thoughtcatalog.com

The fixtures for these sites should be updated

[benubois]

Hi @irfancharania,

I believe the code and tests are correct. The reason why this works is because mercury is normalizing all meta tags. This way they can be queried with the same selector.

[irfancharania]

That makes sense then! Thanks for clarifying