diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 002bbad..c085a6c 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ dependencies = [
 [[package]]
 name = "fend-core"
 version = "1.4.1"
-source = "git+https://github.com/mat-1/fend?branch=main#5c48b97070bbb6b1ec52400b2547e6f369cd78c7"
+source = "git+https://github.com/printfn/fend?branch=main#5e5080231a5c22814ff778d3a1b4577467dd2ccd"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "flate2"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index d4dce90..2479600 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -40,4 +40,5 @@ url = "2.5.0"
 urlencoding = "2.1.3"
 
 [patch.crates-io]
-fend-core = { git = "https://github.com/mat-1/fend", branch = "main" }
+# temporarily using git version of fend-core since it adds codepoint to character conversion
+fend-core = { git = "https://github.com/printfn/fend", branch = "main" }
diff --git a/src/engines/postsearch/github.rs b/src/engines/postsearch/github.rs
index e9d144d..d631592 100644
--- a/src/engines/postsearch/github.rs
+++ b/src/engines/postsearch/github.rs
@@ -26,8 +26,20 @@ pub fn parse_response(body: &str) -> Option<String> {
         .attr("href")?;
     let url = format!("https://github.com{url_relative}");
 
-    let readme = dom.select(&Selector::parse("article").unwrap()).next()?;
-    let readme_html = readme.inner_html().trim().to_string();
+    let embedded_data_script = dom
+        .select(&Selector::parse("script[data-target='react-partial.embeddedData']").unwrap())
+        .last()?
+        .inner_html();
+    let embedded_data = serde_json::from_str::<serde_json::Value>(&embedded_data_script).ok()?;
+    let readme_html = embedded_data
+        .get("props")?
+        .get("initialPayload")?
+        .get("overview")?
+        .get("overviewFiles")?
+        .as_array()?
+        .first()?
+        .get("richText")?
+        .as_str()?;
 
     let mut readme_html = ammonia::Builder::default()
         .link_rel(None)