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[Bug] Uppercase HTML named entities are not decoded in meta-fetcher #314
Description
Describe the bug
The decodeEntities function in src/lib/meta-fetcher.ts fails to decode uppercase HTML entities such as &, ", and <. The regex matches these entities, but the lookup fails because the entity names are not converted to lowercase
To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
- Run the following code:
import { parseMetaTags } from '@/lib/meta-fetcher';
const tags = parseMetaTags(
'<title>Tom & Jerry</title>',
'https://example.com'
);
console.log(tags.title);2. Click on '...'
- Check the output.
Expected behavior
The title should be decoded correctly: Tom & Jerry
Actual behavior
The output retains the uppercase entity instead of decoding it: Tom & Jerry
Activity
anurag2787 commentedon Oct 29, 2026
Hi @anurag629 if this issue is valid can I work on it?
anurag629 commentedon Oct 29, 2026
Hey @anurag2787, confirmed too, with one note on the fix: entity names are case-sensitive, and HTML only has uppercase forms of
&,<,>and"(there's no&APOS;or&NBSP;). So add those four toNAMED_ENTITIESrather than lowercasing the name, or&Amp;and&NBSP;would get decoded when browsers leave them alone. You're at two with #304 and #313 right now, so this one's yours once #312 is merged, just say so here.srikar-naidu commentedon Oct 29, 2026
@anurag629 @anurag2787 , can i take this if it's free
anurag2787 commentedon Oct 30, 2026
Hi @anurag629 could you please assign this to me now?
anurag629 commentedon Oct 30, 2026
Hey @srikar-naidu, this one's going to @anurag2787 since they found it, sorry.
anurag2787 commentedon Oct 30, 2026
Hi @anurag629 you forgot to assign me but i raised a PR for it #317
anurag629 commentedon Oct 30, 2026
Sorry about that @anurag2787, assigned now. I'll look at #317 next.