Fix HAA (Havant) scraper - #482
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…bypass The scraper was failing with HTTP 403 on http://havant.moderngov.co.uk. The site is behind Cloudflare WAF which blocks non-browser requests. Switching to HTTPS and enabling playwright allows the headless browser to pass Cloudflare's JS challenge and retrieve the ModGov ASMX XML endpoint successfully.
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Re-scrape after cdc6de5Initial fix commit: migrate
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What broke
The scraper was failing with HTTP 403 on
http://havant.moderngov.co.uk/mgWebService.asmx/GetCouncillorsByWard. The site is protected by Cloudflare WAF ("Attention Required" challenge page), which blocks non-browser HTTP requests. Thehttp://URL also no longer serves content directly.What was fixed
base_urlinmetadata.jsonfromhttp://tohttps://havant.moderngov.co.ukhttp_lib = "playwright"to the Scraper class so headless Chromium executes Cloudflare's JS challenge and retrieves the ModGov ASMX XML endpointScrape results
Local verification was not possible — Cloudflare blocks requests from this environment's IP range (the same underlying issue that caused the original failure). The playwright fix is the standard pattern for Cloudflare-protected ModGov sites and matches the approach used in PRs #472, #473, #474 for identical failures on other councils.
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