web-browsing-routing-and-sites
ResearchNested web-browsing reference for auto-tier decisions, per-site tier recommendations, known limitations/gotchas, and real-time data endpoints.
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Web Browsing Routing and Site Reference
Nested web-browsing reference. Open this when the auto-tier extractor misroutes a site, when you know the site class, or when you need real-time data endpoints.
Auto-Tier Decision Tree
The bundled extract_page.py script auto-selects the cheapest viable tier.完整逻辑见 scripts/extract_page.py 的 auto_tier() 函数。
分层规则概要：
| URL 特征 | 分配 Tier |
|---|---|
| PDF (.pdf 后缀 或 /pdf/ 路径) | Tier 0 |
| 学术 API (arXiv, CrossRef, DOI, PubMed, etc.) | Tier 1 |
| 静态内容站 (Wikipedia, BBC, Stack Overflow, etc.) | Tier 1.5 |
| 需结构化提取 (GitHub, Reddit, Nature) | Tier 2 |
| 需 JS 渲染/反爬 (Scholar, Springer, Medium, Reuters) | Tier 3 |
| 其他 → 默认 Tier 1.5 (trafilatura) | Tier 1.5 |
Per-Site Tier Recommendations
| Site | Recommended tier | Success rate | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| arXiv abstract | Tier 1 | high | API call via requests |
| arXiv PDF | Tier 0 | high | curl -L + fitz |
| OpenAlex / CrossRef | Tier 1 | high | Fully free, most reliable |
| Unpaywall | Tier 1 | high | Finds OA PDF for any DOI |
| DBLP | Tier 1 | high | CS papers, conference proceedings |
| CORE | Tier 1 | high | OA full text (30M+ papers) |
| Europe PMC | Tier 1 | high | Biomedical + PMC full text |
| Papers With Code | Tier 1 | high | ML papers with code |
| Google Scholar list | Tier 2 | medium-high | curl + BS, needs clean IP |
| Nature.com | Tier 2/3 | medium | og meta cheap; full body needs JS |
| Springer paywalled | Tier 3 | low | Needs cookies/session |
| Medium / Substack | Tier 1.5 | high | trafilatura extracts clean text |
| Tier 2 | high | .json API or old.reddit.com + BS | |
| GitHub | Tier 2 | high | API or BS |
| Wikipedia | Tier 1 | high | REST API /page/summary/{title} |
| Hacker News | Tier 1 | high | Firebase API, fully free |
| Google News | Tier 2 | high | RSS feed, free, no key |
| Twitter/X | Tier 3 | low | Aggressive bot detection |
| Tier 3 | low | Requires login + stealth | |
| Any generic article | Tier 1.5 | high | trafilatura — your default |
Known Limitations & Gotchas
Read this before fighting a site — most of these are paired with the per-site table above.
- Major publishers (Wiley / Science / PNAS / Elsevier): almost always return 403; APIs are the only practical route. Use Unpaywall to find OA versions.
- Nature.com: do NOT use
networkidlewith Playwright — it will time out. Usedomcontentloaded. - Google Scholar: rapid requests get IP-blocked; pace with
time.sleep(2). Better: use SerpAPI/Serper. - Semantic Scholar API: needs free API key for usable rate limits (otherwise 100 req/5min).
- PDF links on arXiv: the abstract page does NOT contain a direct PDF link. Derive:
/pdf/{ID}.pdf. - Jina Reader: 20 req/min free tier. For heavy use, get an API key.
- Reddit: must include a descriptive User-Agent header. Rate limit: ~60 req/min.
- Medium paywall: trafilatura often extracts full text even from paywalled articles. If not, try Jina Reader.
- DuckDuckGo search: no API key needed but rate-limited. Use responsibly.
- CORE API: requires free API key from https://core.ac.uk/services/api for reasonable limits.
Real-Time Data Quick Reference
| Source | Method | Free? | Endpoint / Pattern |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google News | RSS | ✅ | https://news.google.com/rss/search?q={query} |
| JSON API | ✅ | Append .json to any URL + User-Agent header | |
| Hacker News | Firebase API | ✅ | https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json |
| GitHub | REST API | ✅* | https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q={q}&sort=stars |
| Stack Exchange | API | ✅ | https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/search?intitle={q}&site=stackoverflow |
| Wikipedia | REST API | ✅ | https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/{title} |
| Wayback Machine | API | ✅ | https://archive.org/wayback/available?url={url} |
| Stock data | yfinance | ✅ | yf.Ticker("AAPL").history(period="1mo") |
| Weather | Open-Meteo | ✅ | https://api.open-meteo.com/v1/forecast?... |
→ Deep-dive: reference/realtime-data.md → News/RSS guide: reference/news-and-rss.md → Social media: reference/social-media.md