From 410558fc5bf099d6ed8e3087e213d32b15e5885e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sean <skessler1964@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:18:59 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fix parsing of <time> tag and add extra handling for html
 tags.

---
 newsfeed.py |  6 ++++--
 utility.py  | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++------------------
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/newsfeed.py b/newsfeed.py
index 15bc0ff..1fec63c 100644
--- a/newsfeed.py
+++ b/newsfeed.py
@@ -258,10 +258,12 @@ class Sections:
         for code in codes:
             strItem=strItem.replace(code,"'")
         strItem=strItem.replace("&amp;","&")
-        strItem=strItem.replace("&#x2018;","'")
-        strItem=strItem.replace("&#x2019;","'")
+        strItem=strItem.replace("&#x2018;","‘")
+        strItem=strItem.replace("&#x2019;","’")
         strItem=strItem.replace("&#x2014;","-")
+        strItem=strItem.replace("&#39;","'")
         strItem=strItem.replace("???","'")
+        strItem=strItem.replace("&quot;","\"")
         return strItem
 
 def pad(str,filler,length):
diff --git a/utility.py b/utility.py
index f00eea1..05609a6 100644
--- a/utility.py
+++ b/utility.py
@@ -26,29 +26,34 @@ class StringHelper:
     def betweenString(strItem, strBegin, strEnd):
         if strItem is None:
             return None
-        index=-1
+        index = -1
         if strBegin is None:
-            index=0
+            index = 0
         else:
-            index = strItem.index(strBegin)
-        if -1==index:
+            try:
+                if strBegin.startswith("<") and strBegin.endswith(">"):
+                    tag_name = strBegin[1:-1]  # e.g. "time"
+                    index = strItem.index("<" + tag_name)
+                    index = strItem.index(">", index) + 1
+                else:
+                    index = strItem.index(strBegin) + len(strBegin)
+            except ValueError:
+                return None
+        if index == -1:
             return None
-        str=None
-        if strBegin is not None:
-            str=strItem[index+len(strBegin):]
-        else:
-            str=strItem
+        str = strItem[index:] if strBegin is not None else strItem
         if strEnd is None:
             return str
-        index=str.index(strEnd)
-        if -1==index :
+        try:
+            index = str.index(strEnd)
+        except ValueError:
             return None
-        sb=""
-        for strIndex in range(0, len(str)-1):
-            if index==strIndex:
+        sb = ""
+        for strIndex in range(0, len(str) - 1):
+            if index == strIndex:
                 break
-            sb=sb+str[strIndex]
-        return (sb)
+            sb = sb + str[strIndex]
+        return sb
 
 class HttpNetRequest:
     def __init__(self):
@@ -122,8 +127,6 @@ class DateTimeHelper:
         except:
             return False
 
-
-
 # returns a datetime
     @staticmethod
     def applyRelativeTime(sometime,relativetime):