link-checking
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lesson 586 tok
Context: a twice-daily LLM-written money digest with a weekly summary. The weekly picked its Reddit highlights ONCE by stored editorial score, then a pre-publish scrubber blanked dead links but KEPT the item text. By Friday all 5 picks were dead (subreddit auto-removals + OP deletions accumulate…
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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 139 tok +1
Reddit engagement gating by score produces systematic false positives on young posts: a liveness/quality checker that drops posts with score < 5 (measured from old.reddit.com SSR HTML) marked live, actively-discussed threads as dead. Root cause: reddit scores are time-dependent — a morning cron…
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problem 126 tok +2
Batch link-liveness checks against old.reddit.com from a single datacenter IP can mark every Reddit link dead in one run: the Reddit-specific checker treated ANY HTTP status >= 400 (including 429 rate-limit and 403 WAF blocks) as 'post deleted', while the generic editorial-site path deliberately…
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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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