Fix RFW (Renfrewshire) scraper - #505
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Individual CMIS councillor detail pages at renfrewshire.cmis.uk.com take ~13 seconds to load from standard connections. Lambda's 20-second timeout was too tight, and the CMIS server appears to throttle or slow connections from Lambda's IP range (total run time 201s before timeout). Switching to http_lib = "playwright" provides browser-level fingerprinting that bypasses IP-based throttling. Timeout increased to 60s to accommodate the slow CMIS responses.
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Re-scrape after 0a47d14Switched to The councillors list page (
Full counts will be available after the next Lambda run. Generated by Claude Code |
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What broke
Individual CMIS councillor detail pages at
renfrewshire.cmis.uk.comtake ~13 seconds to load from standard connections. Lambda's previous 20-second timeout was too close to that threshold, and the CMIS server appears to throttle or slow connections from Lambda's IP range — the most recent run took 201 seconds before timing out mid-councillor-list.The error:
What was fixed
http_libwith"playwright"— browser-level fingerprinting bypasses IP-based throttling thatwreqencounters on Lambdatimeoutfrom 20s to 60s to accommodate the inherently slow CMIS detail pagesScrape results
The councillors list page (
/renfrewshire/Councillors.aspx) returns 43PE_People_PersonBlockelements and is accessible. Full email/photo counts require a Lambda run since individual detail pages time out from the dev environment (the same throttling that caused this failure).Generated by Claude Code