Fix AGY (Isle of Anglesey) scraper - #503
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…ass Lambda IP block democracy.anglesey.gov.uk is reachable from the public internet but times out from Lambda even with http_lib="requests" (the previous fix applied in May 2026). The site responding externally but not from Lambda is the classic Lambda IP-range block pattern. Playwright runs headless Chromium, which is less fingerprinted and more likely to bypass network- level filtering than Python's requests library.
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Re-scrape after 1117d14Switched Scrape results are not available from this automated run — the fix cannot be verified without executing the scraper in a Lambda-equivalent environment. This follows the established fix pattern for ModGov Lambda IP-block failures (same as KIR #501, FLN #421, GWN #440). If playwright also times out, the likely cause is a hard IP-level block that no HTTP library can bypass, and the scraper should be escalated to an issue. Generated by Claude Code |
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What broke
democracy.anglesey.gov.ukresponds normally from the public internet but times out from Lambda even withhttp_lib = "requests"(which was applied as a previous fix in May 2026). The pattern — external access works, Lambda times out — indicates Lambda's IP range is blocked or throttled at the network level by the site.What was fixed
http_libfrom"requests"to"playwright"— headless Chromium is less likely to be blocked by the network-level filter than Python'srequestslibrary, and it will execute any browser-level JS challenge if one is presentScrape results
Scrape results are not available from this automated run (cannot execute scrapers from the GitHub MCP environment). The fix follows the established pattern for Lambda IP-block failures on ModGov instances (same approach as KIR, FLN, GWN, and other recently fixed councils).
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