Run every canary job weekly on Mondays

.github/workflows/canary.yml

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-# One real run of each mode against goodreads.com, daily. tests.yml
+# One real run of each mode against goodreads.com, weekly (Mondays). tests.yml
 # (deliberately) never touches the site.
 #
 # No secrets are needed, and that is the point of running it: the README's
 # central claim is "no key, no proxy, no account", and an ungated scheduled
-# canary is that sentence under test every morning.
+# canary is that sentence under test every Monday.
 # Every mode ran from a datacentre VPS when this repo was written
 # (2026-09-27), AWS WAF's challenge included, which the browser passes by
 # itself; a GitHub runner is a datacentre address too. Its first dispatch
@@ -26,10 +26,6 @@ name: canary
 on:
   schedule:
     # 05:40 UTC. Not on the hour: every scheduled workflow fires at :00.
-    - cron: "40 5 * * *"
-    # Mondays: the same jobs, WITH the paid secrets (proxy, Scraping Browser,
-    # captcha key). On the daily run above those secrets read as empty, so
-    # it takes the free no-secret route and bills nothing.
     - cron: "40 5 * * 1"
   workflow_dispatch:
 
@@ -64,7 +60,7 @@ jobs:
             pages: 3
             floor: 85
     env:
-      GOODREADS_PROXY: ${{ (github.event_name != 'schedule' || github.event.schedule == '40 5 * * 1') && secrets.GOODREADS_PROXY || '' }}
+      GOODREADS_PROXY: ${{ secrets.GOODREADS_PROXY }}
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v5

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -11,9 +11,7 @@ said so at the top of its release notes.
 
 ### Changed
 
-- CI only: the canary's optional paid secret `GOODREADS_PROXY` now reaches it only on a new weekly
-  run (Mondays 05:40 UTC) and on a manual dispatch. The daily run keeps its
-  schedule and takes the free route without them, so it bills nothing.
+- CI only: the canary now runs weekly (Mondays 05:40 UTC) and on a manual dispatch, with its optional secret `GOODREADS_PROXY` passed on every run; the daily schedule is removed.
 
 ## [0.2.0] — 2026-10-15
 

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -81,13 +81,12 @@ history needs a decision, not a red check on every push.
 Then the rest of the presentation, in the order that matters:
 
 1. `python3 smoke_test.py` green, and the canary dispatched at least once.
-   It runs daily with no secrets at all and is expected to be green,
+   It runs weekly (Mondays) with no secrets at all and is expected to be green,
    because no mode needs a credential and a green badge there is exactly
    the claim the README makes. If a run is refused for the runner's
    address, the canary's `GOODREADS_PROXY` secret (an exit elsewhere) is
-   used on the weekly (Monday) run and on a manual dispatch, with no
-   workflow edit; the daily run stays on the runner's own address and
-   bills nothing.
+   used on every scheduled run and on a manual dispatch, with no
+   workflow edit.
 2. The repo description, homepage and topics set: the description names
    the site and what it really publishes, the topics are what people search for.
 3. Only then the row in the org profile README — and check it with an

README.md

@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ Surveyed 2026-09-27:
 
 | | reviews | book detail | listings | notes |
 |---|---|---|---|---|
-| **this repo** | every review, by cursor, with rating / language / text filters and three orderings | 44 columns, rating distribution, per-language review counts | lists, authors, search, shelves, series | three engines, exit codes that tell blocked from empty from partial, run sidecar, daily canary |
+| **this repo** | every review, by cursor, with rating / language / text filters and three orderings | 44 columns, rating distribution, per-language review counts | lists, authors, search, shelves, series | three engines, exit codes that tell blocked from empty from partial, run sidecar, weekly canary |
 | [maria-antoniak/goodreads-scraper](https://github.com/maria-antoniak/goodreads-scraper) | capped at 300 | yes | shelves | its README says it no longer works since the redesign |
 | [havanagrawal/GoodreadsScraper](https://github.com/havanagrawal/GoodreadsScraper) | no | yes | lists, authors | Scrapy; last push 2024 |
 | [Apify epctex/goodreads-scraper](https://apify.com/epctex/goodreads-scraper) | optional | yes | search, list, genre, author, shelf | $15/month rental plus compute |
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ key refused and re-read, a refused parameter, a language the book has no
 reviews in, a throttle, and a book run from a listing with one book refused.
 
 The [canary](.github/workflows/canary.yml) runs a real scrape of each mode
-daily **with no secrets**, which is what keeps "no account needed" honest.
+weekly (Mondays) **with no secrets**, which is what keeps "no account needed" honest.
 Its first dispatch (2026-09-27, a GitHub-hosted runner, no proxy, region not
 checked) came back complete in all three modes: 300 of 79,610 books on the
 Best Books Ever list, 5 books of the Lord of the Rings series with their