alt Hacker NewsThis feels like slop to me.
It may or may not be, but if you want people to actually use this product I’d suggest improving your documentation and replies here to not look like raw Claude output.
I also doubt the premise that about malformed JSON. I have never encountered anything like what you are describing with structured outputs.
In context of e-commerce web extraction, invalid JSON can occur especially in edge cases, for example:
price: z.number().optional() -> price: “n/a”
url: z.string().url().nullable() -> url: “not found”
It can also be one invalid object (e.g. missing required field, truncated input) in an array causing the entire output to fail.
The unique contribution here is we can recover invalid nullable or optional field, and also remove invalid nested objects in an array.