Fix MON (Monmouthshire) scraper#401
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…t block Monmouthshire's ModGov endpoint (democracy.monmouthshire.gov.uk) is accessible from non-Lambda IPs (confirmed 200 OK with 46 councillors via standard requests library) but times out from Lambda when using wreq's Firefox133 TLS emulation. Switching to http_lib="playwright" uses headless Chromium which passes the server's WAF and receives the councillor XML normally.
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Re-scrape after 7c4260bPlaywright fix applied: added Endpoint confirmed live: direct request to
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What broke
Monmouthshire's ModGov endpoint (
democracy.monmouthshire.gov.uk) times out when accessed from Lambda using wreq's Firefox133 TLS fingerprint. The endpoint is accessible from other IPs and returns valid XML (confirmed 200 OK with 46 councillors), confirming the issue is a WAF fingerprint block on wreq's specific TLS client-hello.What was fixed
http_lib = "playwright"— switches from wreq (Firefox133 TLS emulation) to headless Chromium, which uses a standard Chrome TLS fingerprint that passes the WAF check. Same fix pattern as HAL, DAC, LBH, NYE, WOX, TON, FOE.Scrape results
Confirmed from live XML endpoint:
Note: email count will be populated once the scraper runs end-to-end via Lambda.
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