rs-trafilatura Fixes Web Scraping's Dirty Secret: Non-Article Pages Finally Extract Right
Scraping the web just got smarter. rs-trafilatura classifies page types first, pulling clean content from forums and products that trip up every other tool—saving devs hours in RAG pipelines and SEO audits.
⚡ Key Takeaways
- rs-trafilatura achieves 0.859 F1 on diverse pages at 44ms/page, beating Trafilatura by 7% overall and 20%+ on forums/products.
- Page-type classification (86.6% accurate) plus type-specific extraction fixes architectural flaws in article-only tools.
- Hybrid pipeline with ML quality routing pushes held-out F1 to 0.910 — ideal for RAG/SEO at scale.
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