BUG: 404 when loading from URL creates new doc named "404" | Voters

BUG: 404 when loading from URL creates new doc named "404"

Sarah Clark

What should happen: A 404 should return to the URL import screen and not create a document.

Vivek Maskara

Hi Sarah! Thanks for reporting the issue. I have deployed multiple changes to improve the URL import flow.

Error handling is now a lot better.
URL / HTML parsing should be more robust. Earlier import from URL would often fail due to HTML parsing errors but now a lot more web pages can be parsed and imported as Markdown documents. I have more improvements planned around it. For eg., currently the whole web page is parsed as MD document. Instead writers would often be interested only in the main content (article) of the web page. I would add better support for it in coming days.

I would love it if you could give it another try and let me know if the updates handles your use cases.

I would be happy to make further changes to ensure that the URL import feature aligns with user expectations.