Run every canary job weekly on Mondays

.github/workflows/canary.yml

@@ -42,12 +42,8 @@ name: canary
 # so the same two lines are correct with and without them.
 on:
   schedule:
-    # Once a day, off the hour, so it is not competing with everyone else's
+    # Once a week (Mondays), off the hour, so it is not competing with everyone else's
     # on-the-hour cron jobs for runner availability.
-    - cron: "37 7 * * *"
-    # 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: "37 7 * * 1"
   workflow_dispatch:
 
@@ -58,8 +54,8 @@ jobs:
       # `secrets` is not available in a job-level `if`, so presence is tested
       # here, once, and read from each step's `if` and shell below. These are
       # the strings "true"/"false", never the secret itself.
-      HAVE_CDP: ${{ (github.event_name != 'schedule' || github.event.schedule == '37 7 * * 1') && secrets.INDIEGOGO_CDP_ENDPOINT != '' }}
-      HAVE_PROXY: ${{ (github.event_name != 'schedule' || github.event.schedule == '37 7 * * 1') && secrets.INDIEGOGO_PROXY != '' }}
+      HAVE_CDP: ${{ secrets.INDIEGOGO_CDP_ENDPOINT != '' }}
+      HAVE_PROXY: ${{ secrets.INDIEGOGO_PROXY != '' }}
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
@@ -102,8 +98,8 @@ jobs:
           # Through the environment, never argv (see the header). Unset
           # secrets arrive as "" and env_config.py treats that as unset, so
           # these lines are correct in both configurations.
-          INDIEGOGO_CDP_ENDPOINT: ${{ (github.event_name != 'schedule' || github.event.schedule == '37 7 * * 1') && secrets.INDIEGOGO_CDP_ENDPOINT || '' }}
-          INDIEGOGO_PROXY: ${{ (github.event_name != 'schedule' || github.event.schedule == '37 7 * * 1') && secrets.INDIEGOGO_PROXY || '' }}
+          INDIEGOGO_CDP_ENDPOINT: ${{ secrets.INDIEGOGO_CDP_ENDPOINT }}
+          INDIEGOGO_PROXY: ${{ secrets.INDIEGOGO_PROXY }}
         run: |
           set +e
           python3 playwright_scraper.py \

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -13,9 +13,7 @@ the release notes rather than left to be discovered from a bill or a diff.
 
 ### Changed
 
-- CI only: the canary's optional paid secrets `INDIEGOGO_CDP_ENDPOINT`, `INDIEGOGO_PROXY` now reach it only on a new weekly
-  run (Mondays 07:37 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 07:37 UTC) and on a manual dispatch, with its optional secrets `INDIEGOGO_CDP_ENDPOINT`, `INDIEGOGO_PROXY` passed on every run; the daily schedule is removed.
 
 ## [0.2.0] — 2026-10-15
 

README.md

@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ pytest                        # the same checks, wrapped as one test
 `.github/workflows/tests.yml` runs it on Python 3.9 and 3.12, installs each
 engine in its own virtualenv and fails if the installed one reports skipped,
 and builds and runs the Docker image. `canary.yml` does a real 3-page run
-daily and asserts row counts, field coverage, page/position uniqueness and
+weekly (Mondays) and asserts row counts, field coverage, page/position uniqueness and
 the sidecar's cap arithmetic.
 
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