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"""
justjoin-scraper — Selenium edition (parity engine)
Behaviour is identical to `playwright_scraper.py`: same flags, same modes,
same exit codes, same output. Playwright is the primary engine; this one
exists so the family's claim of three interchangeable engines is testable
rather than asserted.
Everything this file knows about justjoin.it it gets from
`product_parser.py`, and every retry / solve / blocked decision from
`page_flow.py` — including which URL a run fetches and which pages it
plans, which are shared FUNCTIONS rather than three copies of an if-chain.
What lives here is only HOW to ask Selenium.
See `playwright_scraper.py`'s docstring for what is different about this
site: the endpoint the front end calls is not the one the page config
names, `?page=2` on a rendered listing silently returns page 1, the salary
is not the first number in the list, and every query is capped at 10,000.
Usage
-----
python3 selenium_scraper.py
python3 selenium_scraper.py --category python --pages 3 --format csv
python3 selenium_scraper.py --mode facets
python3 selenium_scraper.py --mode offer --pages 50
"""
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
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,
RECAPTCHA_DISCOVERY_JS, detect_turnstile,
wait_for_turnstile, TURNSTILE_INTERCEPT_JS,
TURNSTILE_INJECT_JS, turnstile_task_for)
from product_parser import (API_PATH, MODES, DEFAULT_MODE, ROUTES,
DEFAULT_ROUTE, CATEGORY_KEYS, DEFAULT_ITEMS_COUNT,
EXPERIENCE_LEVELS, EMPLOYMENT_TYPES, WORKING_TIMES,
SORTS, ORDERS, DEFAULT_SORT, DEFAULT_ORDER,
MAX_ITEMS_COUNT, MAX_FROM, FACETS_JOIN,
cap_report, categories_api_url, category_from_url,
count_api_url, count_site_assets, detail_api_url,
detect_bot_challenge, facets_api_url,
filters_from_args, is_single_offer_url,
is_supported_url, mode_for_url, page_url,
parse_count_response, parse_for_mode,
route_of, site_recaptcha_sitekey,
split_facets_body, target_url)
from product_parser import args_problem, missing_facet_groups
from output_writer import (dedupe_by_key, finish_run, EXIT_API_ERROR,
ROW_CLASS_BY_MODE, SOURCE_DEFAULT)
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
# The share of rows that must carry the columns justjoin.it fills on every
# record, below which the read has broken rather than the data being
# unusual. 1,000 of 1,000 listing records and 40 of 40 detail records
# carried all four on 2026-09-18.
#
# Deliberately NOT here, each with the measurement that keeps it out:
# `salary_min` (539 of 1,000 — justjoin.it does not require a salary),
# `languages` (465 of 1,000, and 0 on --route ssr), `nice_to_have_skills`
# (46 of 1,000), `apply_url` (800 of 1,000, null on exactly the 200 whose
# apply_method is "form"), `country_code` (0 on the listing route).
CORE_FIELD_FLOOR = 99
CORE_FIELDS = ("title", "url", "sku", "company_name")
CORE_FIELDS_OFFER = ("title", "url", "sku", "company_name", "description")
CORE_FIELDS_FACETS = ("title", "sku", "facet_group", "facet_key")
def _core_fields(mode: str):
if mode == "offer":
return CORE_FIELDS_OFFER
if mode == "facets":
return CORE_FIELDS_FACETS
return CORE_FIELDS
# The endpoint serves exactly `itemsCount` records until the result set runs
# out, so any page but the last holding fewer means something went wrong.
# See playwright_scraper.py for the measurement.
THIN_PAGE_SHARE = 0.9
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
# What this response said about itself.
#
# `total_available` is the endpoint's `meta.totalItems` — how many
# offers this QUERY matched, capped by the site at 10,000.
# `urls_in_itemlist` is how many offer URLs a rendered page's own
# `CollectionPage` JSON-LD names, which is only meaningful on
# `--route ssr`.
total_available: Optional[int] = None
site_total: Optional[int] = None
offset: Optional[int] = None
# How many entries the same response's ItemList JSON-LD indexes. 326
# against 390 records on 2026-09-18 — the gap is why the parser reads
# the React Query cache, and recording it per run means nobody inherits
# the figure from a comment.
urls_in_itemlist: Optional[int] = None
pages_available: Optional[int] = None
# The page number the SERVER answered with, read back out of the Apollo
# cache key — not an echo of the request. Asking for page 48 of a
# 47-page listing comes back stating page 1, which is how a run learns it
# has walked off the end instead of silently re-collecting page 1.
echoed_page: Optional[int] = None
# The page number the SERVER answered with, read back from the response rather
# than echoed from the request.
@property
def ok(self) -> bool:
return not self.load_failed and self.blocked_by is None
# 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")
# Flag parity with the Playwright engine, and really applied rather
# than accepted and ignored: Chrome takes the locale as --lang. It
# does NOT decide which listing is fetched — that is
# find_country in the URL — so this only affects what the browser
# claims about itself.
options.add_argument(f"--lang={self.args.locale}")
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 URL canonicalisation 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 primitive, and its absence is measured rather than
# forgotten: every route this scraper reads is complete in the first
# response, and justjoin.it's grid is virtualised on top of that — so
# scrolling would REPLACE DOM nodes and produce not one extra row.
# Mirrors the Playwright engine.
return {"count": count, "sleep": sleep, "content": content,
"current_url": current_url}
def _is_endpoint(url: str) -> bool:
"""Whether this address answers with raw JSON rather than a document.
True for everything under `/api/candidate-api/`, which is every route
this scraper reads except `--route ssr`. Getting it wrong is SILENT in
both directions — see `playwright_scraper._is_endpoint` for the two
failure modes. All three engines branch on this same predicate.
"""
return API_PATH in (url or "")
def _snapshot(session, url: str):
"""What the parser is given for this address.
A PAGE is read with `page_source`. The ENDPOINT answers with JSON, which
Chromium wraps in its own JSON-viewer markup — so `page_source` there
returns the viewer's HTML and the payload would be unreachable. Reading
the body text gives back exactly what the server sent.
Note the JS dialect: 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.
"""
if _is_endpoint(url):
try:
return session.driver.execute_script(
"return document.body.innerText;") or ""
except WebDriverException as e:
logger.warning("Could not read the endpoint response: %s", e)
return None
return _driver(session)["content"]()
def _fetch_page_source(session, url: str, timeout_ms: int = 60000) -> str:
"""Navigate and return the serialised document. Used for enumeration.
`page_source` rather than a text reading, and that matters for the
sitemap: Chromium renders `text/xml` through its own XML viewer, and the
serialised document keeps all 463 `<loc>` elements intact where the
viewer's rendered text does not.
"""
session.driver.set_page_load_timeout(max(1, timeout_ms // 1000))
session.driver.get(url)
return session.driver.page_source or ""
def _fetch_text(session, url: str, timeout_ms: int = 60000) -> str:
"""Navigate and return the document's text — JSON exactly as served."""
_fetch_page_source(session, url, timeout_ms)
return _snapshot(session, url) or ""
def _fetch_body(session, args, url: str) -> str:
"""The document the parser is given for this fetch.
`--mode facets` is TWO endpoints that are one answer — the facet groups,
and the category counts from their own route — joined with a separator the
parser undoes (`product_parser.FACETS_JOIN`). This engine had no such step
at all: it imported FACETS_JOIN and categories_api_url and never used
either, so every `--mode facets` run through it silently omitted the
`categories` group — 57 rows against Playwright's 82 — and reported
`complete`. The group it dropped is the one a plan for reaching past the
10,000 cap is built from. Found by running the mode through this engine,
which the parity check had never done (it ran --mode listings only).
"""
body = _snapshot(session, url) or ""
if args.mode == "facets" and body.strip():
try:
categories = _fetch_text(session, categories_api_url())
except Exception as exc: # noqa: BLE001 — a driver raises many types
logger.warning("The category counts did not load (%s); the run "
"will be partial rather than silently missing "
"them.", _mask_credentials(str(exc))[:120])
return body
if categories.strip():
return body + FACETS_JOIN + categories
return body
def handle_captcha_if_present(session, args) -> 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 has never had to help with: justjoin.it has rendered no
challenge to this scraper on any route, from any client, on any of the
seven captures taken 2026-09-18. 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
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 _solve_budget(args, spent: int):
"""Whether another solve may be bought for this page.
`page_flow.SOLVES_PER_PAGE` says at most one purchase per page, and that
is a MONEY limit rather than a style rule. It was not being enforced:
`handle_captcha_if_present` is called twice per attempt — once before the
page is classified and once after — and only the SECOND call was counted.
INHERITED EVIDENCE, from a SIBLING repo and not from justjoin.it — labelled
because a number you inherited is not a number you measured,
and this one cannot be reproduced here: justjoin.it has never rendered a
challenge to this scraper, so no page of this site has ever bought a
solve at all.
On that sibling, from a datacenter address that meets a real Cloudflare
challenge on every fetch (2026-09-17): ONE page bought THREE Turnstile
solves, and every token was refused. The cap read as enforced and was
not. Both call sites now go through here.
The fix is carried here anyway. A budget that is never exercised is
still the difference between a bill and no bill on the day it is.
"""
return spent < page_flow.SOLVES_PER_PAGE
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)
# Counted across the whole block-retry loop, not per attempt: 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.
solves_bought = 0
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
# Selenium exposes NO HTTP status: `driver.get()` returns None and
# WebDriver has no response object. So this engine passes None and
# relies on the parser reading the status out of the site's own
# problem document instead — which is why that reader exists at all
# (see `product_parser.problem_status`). Its twins pass the real
# status, which is strictly better information; both reach the same
# verdict on this site because justjoin.it states its own.
http_status = 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
# Counted, because it can BUY. See _solve_budget.
if _solve_budget(args, solves_bought):
solves_bought += 1
if handle_captcha_if_present(session, args):
time.sleep(1)
elif solves_bought:
logger.info("Not solving again on page %d: %d purchase(s) "
"already made for it and SOLVES_PER_PAGE is %d.",
page_num, solves_bought, page_flow.SOLVES_PER_PAGE)
html = _fetch_body(session, args, url)
state = page_flow.classify(html, http_status, d["current_url"](),
args.mode, args.route)
# every route here is complete in the first response, so a body is parseable in the
# FIRST response and there is nothing to wait for on a healthy page.
# Measured with no pause at all after the load. The wait below is
# only for the state that says the site served SOMETHING that is not the
# payload. Mirrors playwright_scraper exactly.
if state == "unknown":
wait_ms = page_flow.content_timeout_ms(args.mode)
sel = page_flow.ready_selector(args.mode)
need = page_flow.min_matches(args.mode)
logger.info("Page %d is something justjoin.it served (%d bytes, its own "
"assets referenced %d time(s)) but carries no listing "
"payload — waiting up to %.0fs rather than spending a "
"retry.", page_num, len(html),
count_site_assets(html), wait_ms / 1000.0)
found = page_flow.wait_for_count(d["count"], sel, need, wait_ms,
d["sleep"])
if found < need:
logger.info("Still nothing after %.0fs (%d match(es) for %s).",
wait_ms / 1000.0, found, sel)
html = _fetch_body(session, args, url) or html
state = page_flow.classify(html, http_status, d["current_url"](),
args.mode, args.route)
# The paid path is reached for any state page_flow.STATE_POLICY marks
# solvable — on this site that is `blocked`; there is no separate
# `challenge` state (see page_flow's docstring). Bounded by
# SOLVES_PER_PAGE so a rotation loop cannot become a bill, and a
# sitekey-less detection refuses to build a task at all rather than
# paying for one the API will reject.
if (page_flow.should_solve(state)
and _solve_budget(args, solves_bought)):
solves_bought += 1
if handle_captcha_if_present(session, args):
time.sleep(1)
html = d["content"]() or html
state = page_flow.classify(html, http_status, d["current_url"](),
args.mode, args.route)
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 has_pool:
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 — a plain re-fetch through
# the same access path is all that is left.
#
# This `else` was MISSING in the repo this engine was ported
# from — both parity engines called `mask(pool.current)`
# unguarded while the Playwright engine guarded it, so any
# retryable state on a run with no proxy died with
# `AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute
# 'current'` instead of retrying (copied core
# is untested core).
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:
# NAME the proxy when it was the proxy. A dead exit and
# a timeout want opposite responses — another try at the same exit
# versus a different exit — so a message that cannot tell them apart
# leaves the reader guessing which they got.
#
# This branch used to drop `exit_failed` on the floor. With a POOL the
# reason was logged on rotation, but WITHOUT one — a single --proxy,
# which is the common case — the run said only "gave up loading" for
# a proxy that had refused the connection outright. Found by running
# it: `--proxy http://127.0.0.1:9` reported the generic message while
# `_proxy_failure()` had correctly identified
# ERR_PROXY_CONNECTION_FAILED one frame earlier.
if exit_failed:
logger.error(
"Gave up loading %s: the PROXY refused the connection (%s), "
"which is not a timeout and will not fix itself on a retry "
"from the same exit. Check the exit, or pass --proxy-file so "
"the run can rotate to another one.", url, exit_failed)
else:
logger.error("Gave up loading %s after %d attempt(s).",
url, args.retries)
outcome.load_failed = True
outcome.blocked_by = None
return outcome
outcome.state = state
if state == "blocked":
# justjoin.it has never refused this scraper — see
# playwright_scraper's twin of this block. This is the HARD refusal:
# no widget, no sitekey, nothing a key could buy.
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(
"justjoin.it did not serve this request — %d bytes, its own asset "
"paths referenced %d time(s), saved to %s. This is NEW: on "
"2026-09-18 this site served every route to a bare "
"datacentre address with no challenge of any kind, so there "
"is no measured remedy to recommend — the saved HTML is the "
"evidence for what changed. This is exit 3, distinct from an "
"empty result (exit 4).",
len(html or ""), count_site_assets(html or ""), debug_html)
outcome.blocked_by = "cloudflare (hard block)" if html else "no-response"
outcome.final_url = d["current_url"]()
return outcome
# No readiness wait and no scroll on the content path, and their absence
# is MEASURED rather than forgotten — see the "unknown" branch above.
# Mirrors playwright_scraper.
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 products have rendered guards nothing — and over
# --cdp-endpoint the Scraping Browser's own auto-solve extension injects
# such markers into every page it loads.
# Only for a state page_flow already counts as BLOCKED. An EMPTY page is
# a correct answer, and a live run of a /p/<slug> hub reported exit 3 on
# a page the site had plainly served because the hub's own performance
# script names `akamaihd.net`. Mirrors playwright_scraper exactly.
vendor = (detect_bot_challenge(html)
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
return outcome
final_url = d["current_url"]() or url
if not page_flow.should_parse(state):
logger.info("Page %d came back as %s; nothing to parse.", page_num,
state)
outcome.final_url = final_url
return outcome
products, listing = parse_for_mode(html, final_url, args, page_num)
if args.mode == "facets":
gone = missing_facet_groups(products)
if gone:
logger.warning("The facet response is missing %s. The groups that "
"arrived are written, and the run is partial: "
"categories are what a plan for reaching past the "
"10,000 cap is built from.", ", ".join(gone))
logger.info("Parsed %d row(s) from page %d.", len(products), page_num)
if listing is not None:
# Recorded on every page so all three engines carry one shape; on
# recorded every time and page 1's copy is what the run plans against.
outcome.total_available = listing.total_jobs
outcome.site_total = listing.site_total
outcome.offset = listing.offset
outcome.pages_available = listing.pages_available
outcome.urls_in_itemlist = listing.urls_in_itemlist
outcome.echoed_page = listing.echoed_page
if page_num == 1:
# justjoin.it states `meta.totalItems` per query, so what is
# reported is this response's own two views of itself. Printing
# a line of Nones about totals the site does not publish would
# read like a parse failure on a page that parsed perfectly.
logger.info("This response held %d listing(s); its own ItemList "
"JSON-LD indexes %d.", listing.records_in_payload,
listing.urls_in_itemlist)
if listing.page_repeated:
# The site clamped an out-of-range page back and answered 200.
logger.info("Asked for page %s and justjoin.it answered with page "
"%s — that is this site's way of saying the listing "
"has ended.", listing.requested_page,
listing.echoed_page)
if products:
for field_name in _core_fields(args.mode):
filled = sum(1 for row in products
if getattr(row, field_name, None) not in (None, "", []))
share = 100.0 * filled / len(products)
if share < CORE_FIELD_FLOOR:
logger.warning(
"Only %.0f%% of page %d carries `%s`, against a measured "
"floor of %d%%. Every record of every capture had one, so "
"this is the payload shape moving rather than the "
"listings being unusual — re-run with --dump-html.",
share, page_num, field_name, CORE_FIELD_FLOOR)
if args.mode == "facets":
groups = sorted({getattr(r, "facet_group", None) or "?"
for r in products})
logger.info("Read %d facet key(s) across %d group(s): %s. These "
"counts are NOT capped at 10,000 — they describe the "
"whole board, which is what makes them the tool for "
"planning filtered runs that reach past the cap.",
len(products), len(groups), ", ".join(groups))
elif args.mode == "offer":
# One offer has no page statistics, so a listing sentence would
# be nonsense about a run of one row.
row = products[0]
pay = ("not disclosed" if row.salary_min is None else
"%g-%g %s/%s %s" % (row.salary_min,
row.salary_max or row.salary_min,
row.salary_currency or "(currency not "
"published)",
row.salary_unit or "?",
"gross" if row.salary_is_gross
else "net"))
logger.info("Offer: %s at %s, %s, pay %s.", row.title,
row.company_name, row.city or "?", pay.strip())
else:
# Reported, not floored, and the distinction is the point:
# every one of these is legitimately absent on a large share of
# healthy rows, so a threshold on any of them would fire on
# good data every run. `salary_min` is the one that would most
# tempt a floor and must not have one — justjoin.it does not
# require a salary, and 461 of 1,000 offers disclosed none.
paid = sum(1 for row in products if row.salary_min is not None)
remote = sum(1 for row in products
if (row.workplace_type or "").lower() == "remote")
langs = sum(1 for row in products if row.languages)
skilled = sum(1 for row in products if row.required_skills)
logger.info("Page %d: %d/%d disclose a salary, %d/%d remote, "
"%d/%d state a language requirement, %d/%d list "
"required skills.",
page_num, paid, len(products), remote, len(products),
langs, len(products), skilled, len(products))
converted = sum(1 for row in products
if row.salary_currency and row.salary_min is None)
if converted:
logger.info("%d row(s) name a currency with no figures — "
"an employer who chose a currency and withheld "
"the amount.", converted)
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
# All three modes are one row per business-at-a-location, so `sku` is the
# key for all of them.
dedupe_key = "sku"
# Only --mode profile is single-page. Both listing modes paginate
# identically, so neither may be treated as single-page — that is the
# silent-success failure this family exists to avoid.
# "single_page_route" is complete by construction for the two routes
# that have exactly one page: `--mode facets` is one request, and
# `--route ssr` serves one page and answers ?page=N with page 1 again.
stop_reason = "completed"
if args.mode == "facets" or (args.mode == "listings"
and args.route == "ssr"):
stop_reason = "single_page_route"
# How many offers --mode offer found to fetch. Bound here rather than
# inside the session block, so the reporting path cannot raise
# UnboundLocalError on a run that had already done all its work.
total_enumerated = 0
# What the board says it holds, against what this query can reach.
site_total: Optional[int] = None
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()
target = target_url(args)
# In --mode job the enumeration comes FIRST, because it is what
# decides which address page 1 even is. Everywhere else page 1's own
# content decides how many pages there are, so the order reverses.
offer_slugs = []
if args.mode == "offer" and not is_single_offer_url(args):
offer_slugs = page_flow.enumerate_offers(
lambda u: _fetch_page_source(session, u), args)
if not offer_slugs:
return finish_run(
[], args.out, args.format, args.allow_empty,
blocked=False, stop_reason="enumeration_empty",
pages_requested=args.pages, pages_completed=0,
mode=args.mode, source=SOURCE_DEFAULT,
start_url=args.url or "", final_url="")
total_enumerated = len(offer_slugs)
# A slug is not an address. Both parity engines assigned it bare,
# so `--mode offer` over the sitemap "navigated" to a string like
# `acme-dev-warszawa-java` and ended in exit 5 (Selenium) or a
# traceback (pyppeteer). Playwright built the URL; this does too.
first_url = detail_api_url(offer_slugs[0])
if first_url:
target = first_url
if args.url and target != args.url:
logger.info("Reading %s through %s — the endpoint is the "
"route with pagination, and the filters your URL "
"names are carried over to it.", args.url, target)
logger.info("Fetching %s", target)
# The board-wide total, for the cap arithmetic. One extra
# request, and it buys the difference between a sidecar that
# says "complete" and one that says "complete, and a 52%
# sample". Never fatal.
# NOT for --route ssr. That route exists to stay inside robots.txt
# (which disallows /api/), and this request goes to
# /api/candidate-api/offers/count — so the scraper itself was
# fetching a disallowed path on the one route documented as
# robots-clean. The rendered page no longer states a total
# either (its `meta` block is gone, 2026-10-07), so an ssr
# sidecar says nothing about the cap rather than something fetched
# from the wrong place.
if args.mode == "listings" and args.route != "ssr":
try:
site_total = parse_count_response(
_fetch_page_source(session, count_api_url()))
except Exception as exc: # noqa: BLE001
logger.info("The board-wide count did not load (%s); the "
"run continues without the cap share.",
_mask_credentials(str(exc))[:120])
first = _fetch_one_page(session, args, pool, 1, target)