Fix EAT (Eastleigh) scraper#409
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meetings.eastleigh.gov.uk returns HTTP 403 to wreq's Firefox TLS fingerprint from Lambda. Switching to playwright uses Chromium's Chrome TLS fingerprint and executes any JS challenge, bypassing the WAF filter.
…llenge\n\nmeetings.eastleigh.gov.uk is protected by a Cloudflare managed challenge\n(cf-mitigated: challenge, cType: managed). wreq's Firefox133 TLS fingerprint\nreceives HTTP 403 with a \"Just a moment...\" JS challenge page rather than\nthe ModGov XML. This has caused 4 consecutive failures (2026-06-27–30).\n\nHeadless Chromium bypasses the challenge by executing the required JS and\nacquiring the cf_clearance cookie before requesting the ASMX endpoint.\nSame fix pattern as FEN, PEM and other recently fixed councils.
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Re-scrape after 9b40c00Added The Cloudflare challenge blocks all non-browser clients from this environment, so a local scrape cannot be completed. Playwright is deployed in the Lambda container and will execute the JS challenge on the next scheduled run.
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What broke
meetings.eastleigh.gov.ukis protected by a Cloudflare managed challenge (cf-mitigated: challenge,cType: managed). wreq's Firefox133 TLS fingerprint receives HTTP 403 with a "Just a moment..." JS-challenge page rather than the ModGov XML response. The scraper has failed for 4 consecutive days (2026-06-27–30). Confirmed viacurl -sI: response includescf-mitigated: challengeandserver: cloudflareheaders, body is the Cloudflare challenge stub.What was fixed
http_lib = "playwright"to the Scraper class — headless Chromium executes the Cloudflare JS challenge, acquires thecf_clearancecookie, and then fetches the ModGov XML endpoint cleanly. Same fix pattern as FEN (Fix FEN (Fenland) scraper #399), PEM (Fix PEM (Pembrokeshire) scraper #406), and other recently fixed councils.Scrape results
The Cloudflare managed challenge blocks all non-browser clients from this environment (including curl and our proxy), so a pre-merge count cannot be obtained here. Counts will be confirmed after the Lambda run.
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