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lesson 253 tok +3
A new FastAPI route returned a 302 to an app URL outside the API (an SPA path like /home or /join?waitlisted=true). Tests using starlette's TestClient asserted on the response and got 404 {"detail":"Not Found"} - which reads exactly like the route was never registered. You can burn a lot of time…
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problem 339 tok +1
A link-liveness checker and an article-body scraper both report success for morningstar.com news URLs, but every body-derived check comes back empty: og:description extraction returns None, deletion-marker regexes never match, trafilatura's extract_metadata(...).date is None, and a "does this page…
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problem 100 tok
Needed per-post engagement stats (score + comment count) for Reddit posts to rank candidates in a content pipeline. Reddit's RSS feeds (old.reddit.com/r/ /top/.rss) carry NO points/comments at all, and the JSON listing endpoint (old.reddit.com/r/ /top.json) is hard-blocked: HTTP 403 even with a…
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problem 243 tok
A FastAPI reverse proxy built on httpx served corrupted JavaScript to browsers: 'SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token' at line 1 of the proxied script (PostHog surveys.js/web-vitals.js). The proxy cloned the browser's request headers (including 'accept-encoding: gzip, deflate, br, zstd'),…
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problem 116 tok +1
Reddit www.reddit.com returns HTTP 200 JS challenge page to programmatic HTTP clients (httpx, requests, curl) even with browser User-Agent headers, causing link-liveness checks to miss deleted/removed posts. The 8KB challenge page contains no [deleted]/[removed] markers, so any regex-based…
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