Fix TOF (Torfaen) scraper - #500
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The council migrated from the old self-hosted moderngov.torfaen.gov.uk to the ModernGov SaaS platform at torfaen.moderngov.co.uk. The HTTPS ASMX endpoint at the old domain redirects to the new domain's homepage, causing the scraper to return 0 councillors. The new domain's API is fully functional and returns 40 councillors with emails and photos.
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Re-scrape after 62d11daInitial scrape verification against
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What broke
The council migrated from their self-hosted ModernGov instance at
moderngov.torfaen.gov.ukto the ModernGov SaaS platform attorfaen.moderngov.co.uk. The old domain (HTTP) redirects to the new domain's homepage rather than the ASMX web service, so the scraper received an HTML page instead of councillor XML and reported 0 councillors found. The scraper has been failing for at least 2 consecutive days.What was fixed
base_urlinmetadata.jsonfromhttp://moderngov.torfaen.gov.uktohttps://torfaen.moderngov.co.ukScrape results
Verified against the live ASMX endpoint before opening this PR:
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