Run every canary job weekly on Mondays

.github/workflows/canary.yml

@@ -35,10 +35,6 @@ name: canary
 # `profile_locked` (exit 5), which says nothing about the site or the code.
 on:
   schedule:
-    - cron: "23 6 * * *"
-    # 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: "23 6 * * 1"
   workflow_dispatch:
 
@@ -78,8 +74,8 @@ jobs:
         # the step from failing the job; it does not touch the shell's errexit.
         continue-on-error: true
         env:
-          SPINNY_CDP_ENDPOINT: ${{ (github.event_name != 'schedule' || github.event.schedule == '23 6 * * 1') && secrets.SPINNY_CDP_ENDPOINT || '' }}
-          TWOCAPTCHA_KEY: ${{ (github.event_name != 'schedule' || github.event.schedule == '23 6 * * 1') && secrets.TWOCAPTCHA_KEY || '' }}
+          SPINNY_CDP_ENDPOINT: ${{ secrets.SPINNY_CDP_ENDPOINT }}
+          TWOCAPTCHA_KEY: ${{ secrets.TWOCAPTCHA_KEY }}
         run: |
           set +e
           python3 playwright_scraper.py \

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -15,9 +15,7 @@ with it, so nobody discovers it from a bill or from a diff.
 
 ### Changed
 
-- CI only: the canary's optional paid secrets `SPINNY_CDP_ENDPOINT`, `TWOCAPTCHA_KEY` now reach it only on a new weekly
-  run (Mondays 06:23 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 06:23 UTC) and on a manual dispatch, with its optional secrets `SPINNY_CDP_ENDPOINT`, `TWOCAPTCHA_KEY` passed on every run; the daily schedule is removed.
 
 ## [0.2.0] — 2026-10-15
 

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -106,9 +106,9 @@ Then the rest of the presentation, in the order that matters:
 1. `python3 smoke_test.py` green, and the canary dispatched at least once by
    hand before the badge is trusted. Unlike its siblings this canary needs
    **no credential** — the site serves a bare GitHub runner, measured — so it
-   is scheduled daily as well. The optional `SPINNY_CDP_ENDPOINT` secret,
-   when set, routes the weekly (Monday) run and a manual dispatch through the
-   Scraping Browser API (the daily run never uses it, so it bills nothing); no step is
+   is scheduled weekly (Mondays) as well. The optional `SPINNY_CDP_ENDPOINT` secret,
+   when set, routes the scheduled run and a manual dispatch through the
+   Scraping Browser API; no step is
    gated on it, so the canary keeps working the day it expires.
 2. The repo description, homepage and topics set: a description naming what the site
    publishes and the 2Captcha Scraping Browser API, the 2captcha.com

README.md

@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ engine absent" reads exactly like a passing run.
 Fixtures are real captures, trimmed to whole cards and verified to parse
 identically to the untrimmed original before being committed.
 
-`canary.yml` runs one real listing daily and asserts the row floor, the price
+`canary.yml` runs one real listing weekly (Mondays) and asserts the row floor, the price
 coverage, the two price bases, the uniqueness of `page`+`position`, the
 site's own advertised total and the run status (the assertions are in
 `.github/canary_check.py`; they test the parser and never a share of cars the

smoke_test.py

@@ -1738,13 +1738,9 @@ def test_canary_separates_access_from_defect():
     # on it, or the canary quietly stops running the day it expires.
     ok &= check("no step is gated on the optional secret",
                 "HAVE_CDP" not in wf)
-    # It is a paid route, so it reaches the run on the weekly (Monday)
-    # schedule and on a manual dispatch only; the daily run reads it empty.
     ok &= check("...and the secret still reaches the run through the "
                 "environment, never argv",
-                "SPINNY_CDP_ENDPOINT: ${{ (github.event_name != 'schedule' || "
-                "github.event.schedule == '23 6 * * 1') && "
-                "secrets.SPINNY_CDP_ENDPOINT || '' }}" in wf
+                "SPINNY_CDP_ENDPOINT: ${{ secrets.SPINNY_CDP_ENDPOINT }}" in wf
                 and "--cdp-endpoint" not in wf.split("run:")[-3])
     return ok