Fix FYL (Fylde) scraper#447
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…tion The Fylde CMIS scraper was returning 0 councillors because the wreq client's Firefox TLS fingerprint was being served an anti-bot page by fylde.cmis.uk.com in the Lambda environment. Switching to http_lib = "requests" (OpenSSL TLS) correctly retrieves the councillor listing page with all PE_People_PersonBlock divs present. Also adds photo extraction by reading the PenPicResize thumbnail from each PersonBlock div in the list page — all 37 councillors have photos.
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Re-scrape after f4a6490Initial fix: switched to
Verified locally — scraper runs cleanly in ~52 seconds (fetches each councillor's detail page for party and email). Generated by Claude Code |
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What broke
The Fylde CMIS scraper (
fylde.cmis.uk.com) was returning 0 councillors in Lambda. The wreq HTTP client uses a Firefox TLS fingerprint, which the CMIS site was detecting as a bot and serving a stripped-down page with noPE_People_PersonBlockdivs. The site returns correct HTML to Pythonrequests(OpenSSL TLS fingerprint) and curl, but serves anti-bot content to wreq. The scraper connected successfully (no connection error) but parsed an empty result set, triggering the "Not many councillors found (0)" guard.What was fixed
http_lib = "requests"to the Scraper class — the Pythonrequestslibrary correctly retrieves all 37 councillor blocksget_single_councilloroverride to extract councillor photos from thePenPicResizethumbnail image in eachPE_People_PersonBlockdiv on the list page (all 37 councillors have photos available)Scrape results
Opened by LGSF maintenance bot (2026-07-21)
Generated by Claude Code