diff --git a/3rdparty/py/requirements-all.txt b/3rdparty/py/requirements-all.txt
index 911b9c1e..2ee48a36 100644
--- a/3rdparty/py/requirements-all.txt
+++ b/3rdparty/py/requirements-all.txt
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ google-auth-oauthlib==1.2.1
 greenlet==3.1.1
 gunicorn[gevent, setproctitle]==23.0.0
 html2text==2024.2.26
+lxml==5.1.0
 redis==5.2.0
 requests==2.32.3
 sentry-sdk==2.18.0
diff --git a/pesacheck_meedan_bridge/py/BUILD b/pesacheck_meedan_bridge/py/BUILD
index 12887532..6f304234 100644
--- a/pesacheck_meedan_bridge/py/BUILD
+++ b/pesacheck_meedan_bridge/py/BUILD
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 python_sources(
     name="lib",
     dependencies=[
+        "3rdparty/py:requirements-all#lxml",
         "3rdparty/py:requirements-all#requests",
         "3rdparty/py:requirements-all#sentry-sdk",
         "3rdparty/py:requirements-all#environs",
-        "3rdparty/py:requirements-all#trafilatura",
     ],
 )
 
diff --git a/pesacheck_meedan_bridge/py/VERSION b/pesacheck_meedan_bridge/py/VERSION
index 699c6c6d..0e24a92f 100644
--- a/pesacheck_meedan_bridge/py/VERSION
+++ b/pesacheck_meedan_bridge/py/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.1.8
+0.1.12
diff --git a/pesacheck_meedan_bridge/py/main.py b/pesacheck_meedan_bridge/py/main.py
index 9b0412c7..7cdfaa28 100755
--- a/pesacheck_meedan_bridge/py/main.py
+++ b/pesacheck_meedan_bridge/py/main.py
@@ -1,16 +1,22 @@
 import json
 import sys
 
+import lxml.html
 import requests
 import sentry_sdk
 import settings
 from check_api import post_to_check
 from database import PesacheckDatabase, PesacheckFeed
-from trafilatura import extract
 
 
-def html_to_text(content):
-    return extract(content, include_links=True, include_images=True) or content
+def extract_summary(content):
+    tree = lxml.html.fromstring(content)
+    figures = tree.xpath("//figure")
+    if len(figures) == 0:
+        return None
+    summary_el = figures[0].getprevious()
+    summary_text = summary_el.text_content()
+    return summary_text.strip() if summary_text else None
 
 
 language_codes = {
@@ -57,14 +63,16 @@ def post_to_check_and_update(feed, db):
         if language.lower() in language_codes
     ]
     language = "en" if not codes else codes[0]
+    claim_description = feed.title
+    summary = extract_summary(feed.description) or "Not Found"
     input_data = {
         "media_type": "Blank",
         "channel": 1,
         "set_tags": categories,
         "set_status": "verified",
-        "set_claim_description": f"""{html_to_text(feed.description)}""",
-        "title": f"""{feed.title}""",
-        "summary": f"""{html_to_text(feed.description)}""",
+        "set_claim_description": claim_description,
+        "title": feed.title,
+        "summary": summary,
         "url": feed.link,
         "language": language,
         "publish_report": True,
@@ -119,7 +127,7 @@ def main(db):
                         check_project_media_id="",
                         check_full_url="",
                         claim_description_id="",
-                        )
+                    )
                     store_in_database(feed, db=db)
                     posted = post_to_check_and_update(feed, db=db)
                     success_posts.append(posted)