Problem: Documentation does not cover rules.yaml / HTML rewrite rules

[rikkipitt]

Hi folks,

Is it possible to use rules to remove or update HTML elements within a page? If so, is there any documentation on utilising the rules.yaml?

For example, remove a specific script tag that is causing issues.

Cheers! Rikki

[tw4l]

Thanks @rikkipitt ! We don't have documentation on rules.yaml yet and as you've pointed out, it would be very useful. We will track progress on that in this issue.

As for your directly question on removing a script tag or other HTML element, I'll refer to @ikreymer for now.

[rikkipitt]

Hi @tw4l, really appreciate you getting back to me on this one! I'm still very much interested in finding out more about how to configure such things as it'll help in the maintenance of a project I'm building that utilises PYWB. Thank you!

[rlskoeser]

I have a similar question: I'm using pywb to playback an archived site and there's a broken image url on a subset of pages that I'd like to fix. I didn't actually find out about rules.yaml until I found this issue, although I know that rewriting was going on somewhere in the pipeline. Is there any way to configure additional rewrite rules from the pywb config file? I don't want to override the default rules because I'm pretty sure I still want that behavior, I just want to add an additional rule.