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City Scrapers project for Cleveland
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🕷️ Fix spider: Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency #116

Closed SimmonsRitchie closed 3 months ago

SimmonsRitchie commented 3 months ago

What's this PR do?

Fixes our Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency spider (aka. cuya_northeast_ohio_coordinating).

Why are we doing this?

The spider broke due to what appear to be security enhancements on the agency's servers. The webpage didn't change but requests were returning 403 errors. Using a headless browser and a different user agent appear to circumvent whatever bot-detection system the agency is using.

Steps to manually test

After installing the project using pipenv:

  1. Activate the virtual environment:

    pipenv shell
  2. Run the spider:

    scrapy crawl cuya_northeast_ohio_coordinating -O test_output.csv
  3. Monitor the stdout and ensure that the crawl proceeds without raising any errors. Pay attention to the final status report from scrapy.

  4. Inspect test_output.csv to ensure the data looks valid. I suggest opening a few of the URLs under the source column of test_output.csv and comparing the data for the row with what you see on the page.

Are there any smells or added technical debt to note?