videocardz.com - unable to decode content correctly

[hazzuk]

TL; DR

Videocardz.com has to use specific setting to bypass cloudflare, but either these changes or the sites content isn't displayed correctly.

Setup

When trying to add the feed https://videocardz.com/rss-feed, I'm unable to do so without additional options. I believe this is because the feed/website is placed behind Cloudflare. To get this to work I need to both 'Disable HTTP/2 to avoid fingerprinting' and 'Override Default User Agent':

General

• Feed URL: https://videocardz.com/rss-feed

Network Settings

• Override Default User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/117.0.5938.132 Safari/537.36
• [x] Fetch original content
• [x] Disable HTTP/2 to avoid fingerprinting

Rules

• Scraper Rules: #videocardz-article
• Rewrite Rules: remove("div.socialbar")

Problem

However, the content returned is not correctly displayed:

• Original article

• Miniflux article:

  becomes Â, ’ becomes ’ and many more issues seemingly to do with UTF-8.

Note

When searching for options that could help with decoding the content, I applied the rewrite rule base64_decode and it caused this error:

Database error: store: unable to create entry "https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-confirms-5th-gen-npu-for-panther-lake" (feed # 27): pq: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xf5 0x39 0x3c 0x2f.

[jvoisin]

It looks like an encoding issue on their side to be honest.

[fguillot]

I'm not able to bypass the Cloudflare bot protection for this website even with the workarounds mentioned above.

[fguillot]

I did another test with Miniflux 2.2.11 and it's working fine for me.

Give it another try with the latest version of Miniflux.