Fix ELS (Na h-Eileanan an Iar) scraper#427
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…int block www.cne-siar.gov.uk returns HTTP 403 to wreq's Firefox133 TLS fingerprint. The existing verify_requests=False addresses a certificate trust issue but does not bypass the WAF's TLS fingerprint check. Adding http_lib="playwright" switches to headless Chromium's Chrome TLS fingerprint, which passes the WAF and allows the councillors page and individual detail pages to load correctly. Same fix pattern as ELN (#410), FIF (#419), and other recently fixed councils.
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Re-scrape after e26357dInitial PR — added
Reference: previous successful run (PR #392, June 2026) found 29 councillors, all with email and photo on individual detail pages. Generated by Claude Code |
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What broke
www.cne-siar.gov.ukreturns HTTP 403 to wreq's Firefox133 TLS fingerprint. The existingverify_requests = Falseaddresses a certificate trust issue on this host but does not bypass the WAF's TLS fingerprint check. The WAF is blocking Lambda's requests based on the non-browser TLS client-hello, returning 403 Forbidden. The councillors page is accessible to browser clients (confirmed: page serves valid HTML with councillor links). Same WAF fingerprint block pattern as ELN (#410), FIF (#419), and other recently fixed councils.Note: PR #392 attempted this same fix but was closed without merging; this PR re-applies it from the current master.
What was fixed
councillors.py: addedhttp_lib = "playwright"— headless Chromium's Chrome TLS fingerprint passes the WAF check, allowing the councillors list page and individual detail pages to load correctlyverify_requests = Falseretained — the certificate trust issue on this host is independent of the WAF fingerprint blockScrape results
Previous successful run (PR #392, June 2026) found 29 councillors, all with email and photo.
Generated by Claude Code