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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""dubizzle-scraper — Selenium edition
A parity engine, kept for stacks that already have Selenium. It must behave
identically to `playwright_scraper.py`: the same flags, the same rows in the
same column order, the same exit codes and the same run status. Verified on a
live two-page run — 48 rows, identical `sku` set, 44 identical columns
(2026-09-11).
Two hard limits of this driver, stated here rather than left to be
discovered:
* **It cannot use an authenticated remote CDP endpoint.** Playwright's
`connect_over_cdp` and pyppeteer's `browserWSEndpoint` take a full
`ws://user:pass@host:port` and authenticate on the WebSocket upgrade;
chromedriver's `debuggerAddress` takes a bare `host:port` with nowhere to
put a password. A credentialled `--cdp-endpoint` is refused here with that
explanation rather than silently dropping the credentials.
* **`--proxy-server` cannot authenticate at all.** Credentials are stripped
and a warning printed. The way round it on this site is 2Captcha's
IP-whitelist mode, which hands out `host:port` connections with no
credentials in them — those work here exactly as they do in the other two
engines, and one was used for this engine's live run.
And two things about the site itself: it refuses a HEADLESS browser whatever
the exit address, so `--headful` is the default; and the rows come from the
SSR payload while only the money comes from the hydrated card, so readiness
waits for a populated price node rather than for a card count.
python3 selenium_scraper.py \\
--url "https://uae.dubizzle.com/en/c/333-watches" --pages 3
"""
import argparse
import logging
import re
import sys
import time
from dataclasses import dataclass, field
from typing import List, Optional
from urllib.parse import urlparse, urlsplit, parse_qsl
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common.exceptions import (TimeoutException, WebDriverException,
JavascriptException)
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from captcha_solver import (detect_recaptcha_v3, detect_recaptcha_in_page,
reconcile_detections, solve_recaptcha,
CaptchaUnsolvable, INJECT_TOKEN_JS)
from product_parser import (parse_products,
pages_beyond_cap as parser_pages_beyond_cap,
PAGE_CAP as parser_page_cap,
SELECTORS,
detect_bot_challenge, detect_block_marker,
page_url, paginates_by_url, listing_kind,
vertical_of,
site_host, is_supported_host, total_results,
total_pages, search_header, unsupported_reason,
CURRENCY, served_by_dubizzle)
from output_writer import dedupe_by_key, finish_run, EXIT_API_ERROR
import page_flow
from page_flow import MIN_CARD_MATCHES
from proxy_pool import (from_args as proxy_pool_from_args, mask, ROTATE_MODES,
ProxyError, split_credentials)
import env_config
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, format="%(asctime)s [%(levelname)s] %(message)s")
logger = logging.getLogger("selenium_scraper")
ITEM_LINK_SELECTOR = page_flow.READY_SELECTOR_LISTING
# A price-coverage floor, PER VERTICAL, because on this site "how many rows
# carry a price" is a different question in each section and a single number
# would be wrong in both directions at once. Measured 2026-09-14 on one
# captured page of each:
#
# motors 26/26 100% a car ad always names a price
# property-for-rent 35/35 100% so does a rental, unless the agent
# property-for-sale 35/35 100% sets `is_price_hidden`
# classified 25/25 100%
# community 1/25 4% a services ad quotes on request
# jobs 0/25 0% a job ad publishes no salary at all
#
# So a floor of 90 is right for the first four and a floor of ANY positive
# number would fire on every healthy jobs run. The zero entries are not
# "unchecked" — they are the measurement, and they are written down so that
# nobody later reads a 0% jobs run as a broken parse.
PRICE_FLOOR = {
"motors": 90,
"property-for-rent": 90,
"property-for-sale": 90,
"classified": 90,
"community": 0,
"jobs": 0,
"jobs-wanted": 0,
}
# A page holding less than this share of the fullest page in the same run is
# reported as thin. This site's page size is steady (25 ads a page on
# captured and every live run), but the LAST page of a listing is
# legitimately short, so the bar stays loose.
THIN_PAGE_SHARE = 0.6
PAGE_LOAD_TIMEOUT = 60
SCRIPT_TIMEOUT = 30
# Chromium's own names for "the proxy is the problem, not the site". A dead
# proxy and a slow page want opposite responses — a different exit versus
# another try at the same one — so they are told apart by the error text.
_PROXY_ERROR_MARKERS = (
"ERR_PROXY_CONNECTION_FAILED", "ERR_TUNNEL_CONNECTION_FAILED",
"ERR_PROXY_AUTH_UNSUPPORTED", "ERR_PROXY_AUTH_REQUESTED",
"ERR_UNEXPECTED_PROXY_AUTH", "ERR_PROXY_CERTIFICATE_INVALID",
)
@dataclass
class PageOutcome:
"""What one page produced. Mirrors playwright_scraper.PageOutcome."""
page_num: int
url: str
final_url: Optional[str] = None
products: List = field(default_factory=list)
blocked_by: Optional[str] = None
load_failed: bool = False
state: Optional[str] = None
# Populated here: the SSR payload states `total` and `lotsPerPage` on
# page 1, which is what makes the page count arithmetic.
total_available: Optional[int] = None
# The raw result-count header, verbatim, for the sidecar.
header: Optional[str] = None
# What the lazy-load scroll did, and crucially whether it SETTLED. A page
# whose grid was still growing when the budget ran out is partial.
scroll: Optional[dict] = None
# Served with ads in the payload, parsed to zero rows: our failure, not
# an empty listing. See page_flow.failure_reason.
parse_failed: bool = False
@property
def ok(self) -> bool:
return (not self.load_failed and self.blocked_by is None
and not self.parse_failed)
# Every `scheme://user:pass@` in a string, however many times it occurs.
# Matching globally rather than once is the point: a driver's connection
# error can repeat the endpoint several times (the message plus a call log),
# so a masker that handled only the first occurrence would print the password
# the other times and look like it was working.
_CREDENTIALS_IN_URL_RE = re.compile(r"([a-z][a-z0-9+.\-]*://)[^\s/@]+:[^\s/@]+@",
re.IGNORECASE)
def _mask_credentials(text: str) -> str:
"""`text` with any username:password in an embedded URL replaced.
Takes arbitrary text, not just a URL, because the strings that most need
this are exception messages with a URL inside them. The host and port are
KEPT — which endpoint or exit a run used is the useful half of the line
and is not the secret.
"""
return _CREDENTIALS_IN_URL_RE.sub(r"\1***:***@", text or "")
def _chrome_ua(version: str) -> str:
"""A desktop-Chrome UA naming the browser's OWN real version.
`driver.capabilities["browserVersion"]` is the installed Chrome's version,
so the claim matches what the JS engine and the TLS handshake report. A
hardcoded number drifts the moment Chrome updates, and claiming an older
Chrome than everything else reports is itself a signal.
"""
return (f"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 "
f"(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/{version} Safari/537.36")
def _cdp_host_port(endpoint: str) -> str:
"""`host:port` for chromedriver's debuggerAddress, or exit 2 with a reason.
chromedriver takes a bare address here and cannot send credentials, so an
endpoint that carries them cannot work through this engine. Refused up
front: connecting anyway would fail somewhere further in with an error
that names none of this.
"""
parts = urlsplit(endpoint if "//" in endpoint else f"//{endpoint}")
if parts.username or parts.password:
logger.error(
"This --cdp-endpoint carries credentials (%s), and Selenium cannot "
"send them: chromedriver's debuggerAddress is a bare host:port. "
"Use playwright_scraper.py or puppeteer_scraper.py for a "
"credentialed endpoint such as the Scraping Browser API — both "
"authenticate on the WebSocket upgrade.",
_mask_credentials(endpoint))
sys.exit(2)
host = parts.hostname or endpoint
port = f":{parts.port}" if parts.port else ""
return f"{host}{port}"
class _Session:
"""One Chrome driver, relaunchable onto a different exit.
Same contract as the Playwright engine's _BrowserSession, including the
rule that a rotation means a genuinely FRESH browser — and a
fresh browser is also the only thing that re-rolls the served page
fresh cookie jar is what an ordinary user on another network looks like.
"""
def __init__(self, args, pool):
self.args, self.pool = args, pool
self.remote = bool(args.cdp_endpoint)
self.driver = None
def open(self):
options = Options()
if self.remote:
options.debugger_address = _cdp_host_port(self.args.cdp_endpoint)
logger.info("Attaching to an existing browser at %s.",
options.debugger_address)
# No UA, no proxy, no fingerprint on this path: the remote browser
# brings its own, and stacking a second creates a contradiction
# rather than better cover.
self.driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
self._apply_timeouts()
return self
if self.args.headless:
options.add_argument("--headless=new")
options.add_argument("--no-sandbox")
options.add_argument("--disable-dev-shm-usage")
options.add_argument("--window-size=1600,1000")
# Not a fingerprint measure, a correctness one: without it Chrome
# advertises "HeadlessChrome", which is a giveaway on any site with
# a bot manager in front of it.
options.add_argument("--disable-blink-features=AutomationControlled")
if self.pool:
scrubbed, credentials = split_credentials(self.pool.current)
options.add_argument(f"--proxy-server={scrubbed}")
logger.info("Using proxy exit %s", mask(self.pool.current))
if credentials:
logger.warning(
"This proxy has credentials and SELENIUM CANNOT SEND "
"THEM: --proxy-server accepts an address only, and there "
"is no Selenium equivalent of pyppeteer's "
"page.authenticate. They have been stripped, so requests "
"will go out unauthenticated and the exit will most "
"likely refuse them. Use playwright_scraper.py or "
"puppeteer_scraper.py for an authenticated proxy.")
self.driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
self._apply_timeouts()
version = self.driver.capabilities.get("browserVersion", "")
if version:
# Set over CDP rather than as a launch switch, so it can use the
# version the driver actually reports.
try:
self.driver.execute_cdp_cmd(
"Network.setUserAgentOverride",
{"userAgent": _chrome_ua(version)})
except WebDriverException as e:
logger.debug("Could not override the user agent: %s", e)
if self.args.fingerprint:
self._apply_fingerprint()
return self
def _apply_timeouts(self):
# Explicit, because a driver that stops answering otherwise hangs the
# run: "every remote call is bounded" applies to this engine too.
self.driver.set_page_load_timeout(PAGE_LOAD_TIMEOUT)
self.driver.set_script_timeout(SCRIPT_TIMEOUT)
def _apply_fingerprint(self):
from fingerprint_client import get_fingerprint, playwright_init_script
fp = get_fingerprint(self.args.twocaptcha_key, tags=self.args.fp_tags,
country=self.args.fp_country)
ua = (fp.get("userAgent") or {}).get("value")
script = playwright_init_script(fp)
try:
if ua:
self.driver.execute_cdp_cmd("Network.setUserAgentOverride",
{"userAgent": ua})
# The same patch script the Playwright engine installs on its
# context. Shared deliberately: two engines applying different
# halves of one fingerprint would be a contradiction of exactly
# the kind a fingerprint is meant to avoid.
self.driver.execute_cdp_cmd(
"Page.addScriptToEvaluateOnNewDocument", {"source": script})
logger.info("Using 2captcha fingerprint %s (%s)", fp.get("id"),
fp.get("country"))
except WebDriverException as e:
logger.warning("Could not apply the fingerprint over CDP (%s) — "
"continuing without it.", e)
def relaunch(self):
if self.remote:
return
self.close()
self.open()
def close(self):
try:
if self.driver is not None:
# quit(), not close(): close() ends one window and leaves the
# driver process running, which on a per-page rotation would
# leak a chromedriver per page.
self.driver.quit()
except Exception as e: # noqa: BLE001 — teardown must not mask the reason we're here
logger.debug("Ignoring error during driver teardown: %s", e)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# page_flow, bound to Selenium
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Only "how to ask this driver" lives here. Note the JS dialect: Selenium's
# execute_script runs a function BODY and needs an explicit `return`, unlike
# the `() => expr` both other engines take — which is why page_flow names
# operations instead of passing JavaScript.
def _driver(session):
driver = session.driver
def count(selector):
try:
return len(driver.find_elements(By.CSS_SELECTOR, selector))
except WebDriverException as e:
logger.debug("count(%s) failed: %s", selector, e)
return 0
def sleep(ms):
time.sleep(ms / 1000.0)
def content():
try:
return driver.page_source
except WebDriverException as e:
# A geo-redirect or the consent layer can navigate, so a
# snapshot can land on the document swap. None tells the caller to
# skip a check rather than fail the run.
logger.debug("page_source unavailable (page navigating?): %s", e)
return None
def current_url():
try:
return driver.current_url
except WebDriverException:
return ""
# No scroll primitives and no `page_height`, and that is measured rather
# than omitted: three scrolls to the document's own bottom added zero
# cards and left the page height unchanged on all three page kinds. Every
# listing page holds its whole page of ads and paginates by URL.
return {"count": count, "sleep": sleep, "content": content,
"current_url": current_url}
def _parse_for_mode(html: str, url: str, args, page_num: int = 1) -> List:
"""Rows for this page, always as a list.
One mode, and the indirection is kept anyway: every caller downstream —
dedupe, merge, coverage logging, the writers — works on one shape, and
the family's siblings call the same helper, so a future second mode is a
change here rather than in five call sites.
`page_num` is threaded through rather than defaulted, because `position`
restarts at 1 on every page: without the page number beside it, a row
from page 2 claims the same position as one from page 1 and the two are
indistinguishable in the output. A sibling repo's first live run wrote
120 rows all labelled page 1 for exactly that reason.
"""
return parse_products(html, url, page=page_num, category=args.category)
def _same_url(a: str, b: str) -> bool:
"""Whether two URLs address the same page.
Delegates to page_flow rather than reimplementing the comparison, so all
three engines cannot drift on it. An engine with its own copy of this
in a sibling repo got the equivalent wrong and silently fell back to
sequential fetching.
The comparison drops campaign parameters (`utm_*` and the rest of
product_parser.TRACKING_PARAMS), a `www.` prefix and a trailing slash,
so two spellings of one dubizzle page compare equal.
"""
return page_flow.comparable(a) == page_flow.comparable(b)
def _next_page_candidates(session, page_num: int) -> List[str]:
"""The site's own next-page link, resolved by the browser, or None.
Returns EVERY candidate, filtered by page_flow to the ones that really do
paginate this listing: the SEO chip rail advertises other listings
alongside its items, and following that one returns rows from the wrong
listing while reporting success.
Reads the DOM's `.href` property, which is already absolute — the
opposite of Playwright's get_attribute("href"), which returns the raw
attribute. Kept explicit because the engines differ here.
Note the JS is a function BODY with an explicit `return`, not the arrow
expression the other two engines pass. That difference is exactly why no
JavaScript crosses the page_flow boundary.
"""
try:
hrefs = session.driver.execute_script(
"return Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(arguments[0]))"
".map(a => a.href || a.getAttribute('href')).filter(Boolean);",
page_flow.next_page_selector(page_num))
except WebDriverException:
return []
return page_flow.next_page_candidates(session.driver.current_url,
hrefs or [])
def handle_captcha_if_present(session, args, budget=None) -> bool:
"""Detect and solve a challenge. True if something was solved.
Same detectors, same reconciliation and the same "detected is not
blocking" rule as the Playwright engine — the three must agree about
when a run spends money.
NOTE what this cannot help with: this site's refusal is an HTTP 403 with
403 carrying its own error page with no challenge on it, so no solve
applies there and none is attempted. See product_parser.detect_page_state.
"""
driver = session.driver
d = _driver(session)
html = d["content"]()
if html is None:
return False
selector = page_flow.ready_selector(args.mode)
already_rendered = d["count"](selector)
when_blocked = getattr(args, "solve_captcha", "when-blocked") == "when-blocked"
html_challenge = detect_recaptcha_v3(html, d["current_url"]())
runtime_challenge = detect_recaptcha_in_page(
lambda js: driver.execute_script(f"return ({js})();"),
page_url=d["current_url"]())
challenge = reconcile_detections(html_challenge, runtime_challenge)
if not challenge:
return False
if when_blocked and already_rendered > MIN_CARD_MATCHES:
logger.info("%s detected via %s, but %d anchors are already on the "
"page — not solving it.", challenge.kind, challenge.source,
already_rendered)
return False
logger.warning("%s detected via %s (sitekey=%s) — attempting to solve.",
challenge.kind, challenge.source, challenge.sitekey)
if not args.twocaptcha_key:
logger.warning("No 2captcha API key, so this challenge cannot be solved.")
return False
# Checked immediately before the purchase, against the page's single
# allowance (page_flow.SolveBudget), so the pre- and post-classification
# calls together cannot buy more than SOLVES_PER_PAGE tokens.
if budget is None or not budget.allows():
logger.info("Not solving: this page's solve allowance (%d) is spent. "
"A challenge that survives a solved token is not one this "
"run can pass, and a second solve is a second charge.",
page_flow.SOLVES_PER_PAGE)
return False
budget.spend()
try:
token = solve_recaptcha(challenge, args.twocaptcha_key,
api_version=args.captcha_api,
min_score=args.min_score)
except Exception as e: # noqa: BLE001
logger.error("Solving the challenge failed (%s).", e)
return False
try:
driver.execute_script(f"return ({INJECT_TOKEN_JS})(arguments[0]);", token)
except WebDriverException as e:
logger.error("Could not inject the token (%s).", e)
return False
logger.info("Token injected. Reloading page to continue.")
time.sleep(1.5)
driver.refresh()
return True
def _fetch_one_page(session, args, pool, page_num: int, url: str) -> PageOutcome:
"""Fetch and parse one page. Mirrors playwright_scraper._fetch_one_page.
Kept structurally parallel to its twins on purpose — "all three engines
agree" is checked by reading them side by side as well as by the smoke
suite.
"""
outcome = PageOutcome(page_num=page_num, url=url)
d = _driver(session)
html, state, load_failed = None, "ok", False
# See the Playwright engine for the measurement: without a pool there is
# no exit to rotate to, but a plain re-fetch is what clears a block on a
# Scraping Browser profile, so the budget is not zero.
has_pool = bool(pool and len(pool) > 1)
# `RETRY_ON_BLOCKED` is CONSULTED, not just documented. It was a
# constant with a paragraph of justification that no engine read — a
# policy statement nothing enforced, which is the same defect as dead
# code that looks load-bearing. Setting it False now really does stop
# the retry loop.
block_retries = 0 if not page_flow.RETRY_ON_BLOCKED else (
args.proxy_block_retries if has_pool
else page_flow.BLOCK_RETRIES_WITHOUT_POOL)
# ONE allowance for every paid solve on this page, handed to both call
# sites below and counted across the whole block-retry loop: a page that
# keeps coming back as a challenge would otherwise buy one solve per
# rotation, which is how a run quietly turns into a bill. See
# page_flow.SolveBudget.
budget = page_flow.SolveBudget(page_flow.SOLVES_PER_PAGE)
# Selenium's `driver.get()` returns None and the driver exposes no HTTP
# status at all, so the classifier gets None here and relies on the
# body: dubizzle's own 404 is recognised by product_parser's
# `is_not_found_page`, which is what makes this engine agree with the
# two that do see a status.
status = None
for block_attempt in range(block_retries + 1):
logger.info("Fetching page %d/%d: %s", page_num, args.pages, url)
load_failed, exit_failed = False, None
for attempt in range(1, args.retries + 1):
try:
session.driver.get(url)
load_failed = False
break
except (TimeoutException, WebDriverException) as e:
text = str(e)
reason = next((m for m in _PROXY_ERROR_MARKERS if m in text), "")
load_failed = True
if reason:
exit_failed = reason
break # a different exit is the only thing that helps
if attempt < args.retries:
pause = args.retry_delay * (2 ** (attempt - 1))
logger.warning("Failed to load %s (attempt %d/%d: %s) — "
"retrying in %.1fs.", url, attempt,
args.retries, text[:120], pause)
time.sleep(pause)
if exit_failed and has_pool and block_attempt < block_retries:
logger.warning("Exit %s is unusable (%s) — rotating to another "
"one (%d/%d).", mask(pool.current), exit_failed,
block_attempt + 1, block_retries)
pool.advance(f"unusable exit: {exit_failed}")
session.relaunch()
d = _driver(session)
continue
if load_failed:
break
if handle_captcha_if_present(session, args, budget):
time.sleep(1)
html = d["content"]() or ""
state = page_flow.classify(html, status, url=d["current_url"]())
# "Not painted yet" is not a fault. A page dubizzle served (it is
# built from the site's own assets) but whose listings payload is not
# in the document yet classifies as `shell`. Fetching it again would
# only buy another shell, so wait for the anchor and re-classify
# BEFORE the retry decision. None of the captured pages in
# fixtures_generated.json is a shell — a category grid arrives
# server-rendered — so this wait is a safety net, not a measured
# path. See page_flow.is_unpainted.
if page_flow.is_unpainted(state, html):
wait_s = page_flow.content_timeout_ms(args.mode) / 1000.0
sel = page_flow.ready_selector(args.mode)
need = page_flow.min_matches(args.mode, page_flow.expected_cards(html))
logger.info("Page %d is a shell the site served but has not "
"filled in (%d bytes, empty cards) — waiting up to "
"%.0fs for the prices rather than spending a retry.",
page_num, len(html), wait_s)
found = page_flow.wait_for_count(d["count"], d["sleep"], sel,
need, int(wait_s * 1000))
if found <= need:
logger.info("The grid still had not painted after %.0fs "
"(%d match(es)).", wait_s, found)
html = d["content"]() or html
state = page_flow.classify(html, status, url=d["current_url"]())
# No interstitial-settling step, and its absence is measured rather
# than an omission: this site has no interstitial. A refused request
# gets Imperva's refusal, with nothing on it to settle, and what
# triggers it is the exit's country, not the browser. See page_flow's
# notes above RETRY_ON_BLOCKED.
#
# The paid path is reached only for state "challenge", which no
# capture of this site has ever produced. Wired up because a bot
# manager can be switched on between deploys, and bounded by
# SOLVES_PER_PAGE so a speculative path cannot become a bill.
if (page_flow.should_solve(state)
and budget.allows()):
if handle_captcha_if_present(session, args, budget):
time.sleep(1)
html = d["content"]() or html
state = page_flow.classify(html, status, url=d["current_url"]())
if state == "content":
logger.info("The solve was accepted — page %d is content "
"now.", page_num)
else:
logger.warning("The solve was NOT accepted: page %d is "
"still %s. The purchase is spent.",
page_num, state)
if not page_flow.should_retry(state):
# "content" and "empty" are both final answers. An empty page is
# a CORRECT one — a hub category has no grid — so retrying it
# would re-confirm the same right answer, and rotating the exit
# would blame an address for the URL it was given.
break
# Blocked or challenged. The ADDRESS is what was scored, not the URL,
# so a different exit is the only thing that plausibly changes the
# outcome.
if block_attempt < block_retries:
if pool is not None:
logger.warning("Page %d came back as %s from %s — retrying "
"from another exit (%d/%d).", page_num, state,
mask(pool.current), block_attempt + 1,
block_retries)
pool.advance(f"{state} on page {page_num}")
session.relaunch()
d = _driver(session)
else:
# No pool, so nowhere else to go — but a plain re-fetch does
# clear this sometimes, and this branch is REACHABLE here:
# `page_flow.BLOCK_RETRIES_WITHOUT_POOL` is 1 on this site,
# against 0 in the sibling repo this engine was ported from,
# and `mask(pool.current)` on a None pool took a live run
# down with an AttributeError the moment it was. Mirrors
# playwright_scraper exactly.
pause = args.retry_delay * (block_attempt + 1)
logger.warning("Page %d came back as %s — re-fetching through "
"the same access path in %.1fs (%d/%d).",
page_num, state, pause, block_attempt + 1,
block_retries)
time.sleep(pause)
if load_failed:
logger.error("Gave up loading %s after %d attempt(s).", url, args.retries)
outcome.load_failed = True
return outcome
outcome.state = state
if state == "blocked":
# There is no challenge on this site to solve. Imperva answers a
# refused request with an HTTP 403 or a "Pardon Our Interruption"
# page and nothing to solve, so a 2Captcha key does not help and a
# UAE exit does. The dump is written even when empty: a reader who
# finds no file cannot tell an empty response from a run that never
# got this far.
debug_html = f"{args.out}_page{page_num}_debug.html"
with open(debug_html, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
f.write(html or "")
logger.error(
"The site did not serve this request — %d bytes, %s the site's "
"own asset host, saved to %s. There is no challenge on the "
"page to solve. What clears it, measured 2026-09-14: an exit "
"IN THE UAE. A European residential exit was refused with HTTP "
"403 and a Finnish datacentre exit with a 'Pardon Our "
"Interruption' page under HTTP 200, headful and headless alike, "
"while a UAE residential exit was served the full catalogue by a "
"headless browser. So --proxy with region-ae, or --cdp-endpoint "
"with country-ae — not a bigger pool of the wrong addresses. "
"Note this engine cannot use an authenticated remote CDP endpoint "
"or an authenticated proxy; see the README's engine limits. This "
"is exit 3, distinct from a genuinely empty result (exit 4).",
len(html or ""),
"which references" if served_by_dubizzle(html or "")
else "with no reference to", debug_html)
outcome.blocked_by = "no-response" if not html else "not-served"
outcome.final_url = d["current_url"]()
return outcome
if state == "content":
# Wait for the listing anchors. There is NO scroll: three scrolls
# to the document's own bottom added zero cards on every page kind,
# because the whole page is served at once.
selector = page_flow.ready_selector(args.mode)
threshold = page_flow.min_matches(args.mode,
page_flow.expected_cards(html))
timeout_s = page_flow.content_timeout_ms(args.mode) / 1000.0
# A POLL through the shared helper, so all three engines wait the
# same way. This engine could use WebDriverWait — it never evaluates
# a string — but a shared wait is one fewer thing to drift on, and
# the other two cannot: a CSP without `unsafe-eval` refuses it.
found = page_flow.wait_for_count(d["count"], d["sleep"], selector,
threshold,
int(timeout_s * 1000))
time.sleep(0.5)
if found <= threshold:
# Not an error on its own. A listing page with no grid is a
# correct answer (a hub page, or one page past the end), and
# classification has already told those apart from a page whose
# payload names ads.
logger.info("No listing tiles appeared within %.0fs. If this "
"URL is a hub page or one page "
"past the end of a listing, that is the expected "
"answer and the run will report 0 rows (exit 4).",
timeout_s)
html = d["content"]() or html
if args.dump_html:
dump_path = (args.dump_html if args.pages == 1
else f"{args.dump_html}.page{page_num}")
with open(dump_path, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
f.write(html)
logger.info("Saved the snapshot the parser sees to %s (%d bytes).",
dump_path, len(html))
# Only when the page is NOT already content. A challenge marker on a page
# whose ads have rendered guards nothing — and over --cdp-endpoint the
# Scraping Browser's own auto-solve extension injects such markers into
# every page it loads, which is why the scan strips extension <script>
# tags first. Only for a state page_flow already counts as BLOCKED; an
# EMPTY page is a correct answer. Mirrors playwright_scraper exactly.
vendor = (detect_bot_challenge(html, url=d["current_url"]())
if page_flow.counts_as_blocked(state) else None)
if vendor:
debug_html = f"{args.out}_page{page_num}_debug.html"
with open(debug_html, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
f.write(html)
try:
session.driver.save_screenshot(f"{args.out}_page{page_num}_debug.png")
except WebDriverException as e:
logger.warning("Could not capture screenshot: %s", e)
logger.error("Blocked by %s before parsing (%d bytes) — saved to %s. "
"This is exit 3, distinct from a genuinely empty result "
"(exit 4).", vendor, len(html), debug_html)
outcome.blocked_by = vendor
logger.error("%s", page_flow.block_advice(
html, headless=bool(getattr(args, "headless", False)),
has_pool=has_pool))
return outcome
final_url = d["current_url"]() or url
# Through the POLICY rather than unconditionally. `STATE_POLICY` is the
# one place that says which states are worth reading, and until now
# nothing consulted its `parse` column: the engines parsed whatever
# reached this line, so every state without an earlier `return` was
# read regardless of what the table said.
#
# # On THIS site that was a live bug, not a tidiness point. A page one past
# the end of a listing (`?page=401`) classifies as `empty`
# (parse: False) and still parses to one row — a 2020 Ferrari Portofino
# at AED 579,000, carried by the recommendation rail such a page shows.
# A run that walked off the end of a category therefore wrote a car
# that was not in it, with a real price and a real url.
#
# Measured across the family on 2026-09-23 by counting definitions
# against readers: 7 of 24 repos defined `should_parse` and none of
# them called it.
products = (_parse_for_mode(html, final_url, args, page_num)
if page_flow.should_parse(state) else [])
logger.info("Parsed %d row(s) from page %d.", len(products), page_num)
# A page classified `content` has ads in its own payload — that is what
# the classifier keys on — so zero rows from it is OUR reading failing,
# not an empty listing. Marked as a failed page so the run cannot end as
# exit 4 ("nothing listed") on page 1 or as a complete run on page 2+;
# finish_run then reports exit 5 with no rows or exit 6 with some.
if state == "content" and not products:
outcome.parse_failed = True
logger.error("Page %d was served with ads in its payload (the "
"payload's own total: %s) and parsed to 0 rows. That is "
"a parser failure, not an empty listing — the site's "
"markup has probably changed. Re-run with --dump-html "
"and compare against the fixtures.", page_num,
total_results(html))
if args.mode == "listing" and page_num == 1:
# The payload states the listing's own total, so the arithmetic
# completeness check is available here and the number is recorded
# rather than guessed.
outcome.total_available = total_results(html)
outcome.header = search_header(html)
if outcome.header:
logger.info("The page's own result header says: %s", outcome.header)
if products and args.mode == "listing":
priced = sum(1 for p in products if p.price is not None)
share = 100.0 * priced / len(products)
kind = vertical_of(d["current_url"]()) or listing_kind(d["current_url"]())
floor = PRICE_FLOOR.get(kind, 0)
# Reported every time, not only when it looks wrong, so a consumer
# gets the number rather than a threshold someone guessed. A 0% jobs
# page is the site's behaviour, not a failure, which is why the floor
# is per-vertical and why the figure is printed either way.
logger.info("Price coverage on page %d (%s page): %d/%d (%.0f%%); the "
"floor for this page kind is %d%%.",
page_num, kind, priced, len(products), share, floor)
if share < floor:
logger.warning(
"Only %.0f%% of page %d carries a price, against a measured "
"floor of %d%% for a %s page. All 310 rows across the four "
"captured listing pages had one, so this is the read breaking "
"rather than the page being unusual.", share, page_num,
floor, kind)
# No structured-price confirmation share, and its absence is measured:
# the payload and the card describe different halves of one row.
with_image = sum(1 for p in products if p.image_url)
logger.info("Photo coverage on page %d: %d/%d (%.0f%%). Read from the "
"payload rather than an <img> tag, so this is not a "
"rendering measure: a null means the site published no "
"photo for that ad.",
page_num, with_image, len(products),
100.0 * with_image / len(products))
if not products:
debug_html = f"{args.out}_page{page_num}_debug.html"
with open(debug_html, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
f.write(html)
try:
session.driver.save_screenshot(f"{args.out}_page{page_num}_debug.png")
except WebDriverException as e:
logger.warning("Could not capture screenshot: %s", e)
logger.warning("0 rows parsed — saved what the browser actually saw to "
"%s.", debug_html)
outcome.products = products
outcome.final_url = final_url
return outcome
def scrape(args) -> int:
outcomes: List[PageOutcome] = []
seen_keys = set()
blocked = False
# Both modes are one row per product, so `sku` is the key for both.
dedupe_key = "sku"
# This repo has only --mode listing, which is never single-page.
stop_reason = "completed"
pool = proxy_pool_from_args(args)
if pool and args.cdp_endpoint:
logger.warning("Ignoring --proxy/--proxy-file: with --cdp-endpoint the "
"remote browser has its own exit, and layering a second "
"proxy on top would contradict it.")
pool = None
if args.concurrency > 1:
logger.warning("--concurrency is ignored in this engine: parallel page "
"fetching is implemented in playwright_scraper.py, "
"which is the primary engine. Running one page at a "
"time.")
session = None
try:
session = _Session(args, pool).open()
first = _fetch_one_page(session, args, pool, 1, args.url)
outcomes.append(first)
if not first.ok:
stop_reason = page_flow.failure_reason(first)
blocked = first.blocked_by is not None
elif args.mode == "listing":
seen_keys.update(p.sku for p in first.products if p.sku is not None)
planned = None
if args.pages > 1:
page_one = first.final_url or args.url
constructed = page_url(page_one, 2)
candidates = _next_page_candidates(session, 1)
if candidates and not page_flow.pagination_agrees(
page_one, 1, candidates):
logger.info("The site's own next-page link (%s) is not "
"what the page convention would build (%s) — "
"following its links one page at a time.",
candidates[0], constructed)
else:
if not candidates:
logger.info(
"No pagination link for page 2 was found on page "
"1 — using the URL convention. That is EXPECTED "
"on this site: it publishes no rel=next "
"anywhere, and ?page=N addresses every page "
"correctly.")
planned = [page_url(page_one, n)
for n in range(2, args.pages + 1)]
first_candidates = _next_page_candidates(session, 1)
url = (planned[0] if planned else
(first_candidates[0] if first_candidates
else page_url(session.driver.current_url, 2)))
for page_num in range(2, args.pages + 1):
if pool and pool.rotates_per_page():
pool.advance(f"per-page rotation, page {page_num}")
session.relaunch()
outcome = _fetch_one_page(session, args, pool, page_num, url)
outcomes.append(outcome)
if not outcome.ok:
stop_reason = page_flow.failure_reason(outcome)
blocked = outcome.blocked_by is not None
break
fresh_count = sum(1 for p in outcome.products
if p.sku is None or p.sku not in seen_keys)
seen_keys.update(p.sku for p in outcome.products
if p.sku is not None)
if not fresh_count:
logger.info("Page %d added no rows not already seen — "
"treating that as the end of the listing.",
page_num)
stop_reason = "no_new_products"
break
if page_num < args.pages:
nxt = _next_page_candidates(session, page_num)
url = (planned[page_num - 1] if planned else
(nxt[0] if nxt else
page_url(session.driver.current_url, page_num + 1)))
time.sleep(args.delay)
finally:
if session is not None:
session.close()
all_rows = []
merged_seen = set()
for oc in sorted(outcomes, key=lambda o: o.page_num):
fresh = dedupe_by_key(oc.products, merged_seen, key=dedupe_key)
if len(fresh) < len(oc.products):
logger.info("Page %d: dropped %d duplicate row(s).",
oc.page_num, len(oc.products) - len(fresh))
all_rows.extend(fresh)
# Completeness, checked over the MERGED result rather than per page — a
# per-page check cannot see a gap BETWEEN two pages, which is exactly
# where a short page hides.
#
# NOT "pages x rows-per-page", which is what the sibling repo does and
# what fires on healthy runs here. This site's page size is steady:
# a three-page run returned 62, 60 and 62 rows, and multiplying the
# largest page by the page count then declared the run short by 8. A
# threshold that warns on every healthy run teaches the reader to ignore
# it.
#
# What is worth warning about is a page that came back materially THIN
# against its siblings — that is what a truncated response or a
# half-painted grid looks like. A page holding less than 60% of the
# fullest page is well outside the +-3% spread that the varying page size
# accounts for.
total_available = next((o.total_available for o in outcomes
if o.total_available is not None), None)
if args.mode == "listing" and all_rows:
counts = [(o.page_num, len(o.products)) for o in outcomes if o.ok]
fullest = max((n for _, n in counts), default=0)
thin = [(p, n) for p, n in counts
if fullest and n < THIN_PAGE_SHARE * fullest]
# The LAST page of a listing is legitimately short — the catalogue
# simply ran out — so it is excluded unless there are pages after it.
last_page = max((p for p, _ in counts), default=0)
thin = [(p, n) for p, n in thin if p != last_page]
if thin:
logger.warning(
"Page(s) %s came back much thinner than the fullest page "
"(%d rows): %s. A truncated response or a half-painted grid "
"looks like this — re-run with --dump-html to check the "
"snapshot for those pages.",
", ".join(str(p) for p, _ in thin), fullest,
", ".join("page %d: %d" % (p, n) for p, n in thin))
if total_available:
logger.info("This listing holds %d product(s) in total; this run "
"took %d (%.1f%%).", total_available, len(all_rows),
100.0 * len(all_rows) / total_available)
# The pages the CATALOGUE has that the site will NOT address.
# A run that stops at the cap is complete as far as the site is
# concerned and truncated as far as the catalogue is, and only
# saying so lets a consumer tell the two apart.
beyond = (max(0, -(-total_available // fullest) - parser_page_cap)
if fullest else 0)
if beyond:
logger.warning(
"This listing is %d page(s) deeper than the site will "
"address: it publishes its own page count and stops "
"there, and a request past it answers HTTP 200 with "
"totalHits 0 rather than failing. A motors listing of "
"34,619 ads publishes 400 pages of 25, so two thirds of "
"it cannot be reached through pagination at all. Narrow "
"the listing with the site's own filters — by emirate, "
"make, price band or year — and run each slice.",
beyond)
ok_pages = [o for o in outcomes if o.ok]
failed_pages = [o.page_num for o in outcomes if not o.ok]
final_url = (max(ok_pages, key=lambda o: o.page_num).final_url
if ok_pages else args.url)