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27 changes: 14 additions & 13 deletions internal/ingest/sources/energyjobline.go
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Expand Up @@ -17,21 +17,22 @@ import (
// value is the agency's own brand (e.g. "Energy Jobline ZR") rather than a confidential
// end client — verified against the live site's own human-visible company link, not just
// its ld+json, so it is stored as-is rather than filtered or guessed around.
//
// The sitemap and the detail pages need different transports (see crawlerUserAgent and
// energyjoblineRequestInterval), so, like clinch, the two are separate parameters rather
// than one combined client.
type energyjobline struct {
http energyjoblineHTTP
}

// energyjoblineHTTP is the transport energyjobline needs: the XML sitemap (index and
// per-page urlset) plus HTML detail pages.
type energyjoblineHTTP interface {
XMLGetter
HTMLGetter
sitemap XMLGetter // the top-level sitemap index + per-page urlsets (4 requests/run)
pages HTMLGetter // per-posting detail pages: Googlebot UA, rate-paced
}

const energyjoblineSitemapIndexURL = "https://www.energyjobline.com/sitemap.xml"

// NewEnergyJobline builds the EnergyJobline adapter over the given HTTP client.
func NewEnergyJobline(c energyjoblineHTTP) Source { return energyjobline{http: c} }
// NewEnergyJobline builds the EnergyJobline adapter: sitemap fetches the site's sitemap
// index, pages fetches each job-detail page (see crawlerUserAgent, pacedHTMLGetter).
func NewEnergyJobline(sitemap XMLGetter, pages HTMLGetter) Source {
return energyjobline{sitemap: sitemap, pages: pages}
}

func (energyjobline) Provider() string { return "energyjobline" }

Expand All @@ -56,13 +57,13 @@ func (e energyjobline) Fetch(ctx context.Context, ce CompanyEntry) ([]Job, error
// urlset mixing job postings with the site's other pages, e.g. news articles) and returns
// every job-detail URL found across all of them.
func (e energyjobline) jobURLs(ctx context.Context) ([]string, error) {
idx, err := getSitemap(ctx, e.http, energyjoblineSitemapIndexURL)
idx, err := getSitemap(ctx, e.sitemap, energyjoblineSitemapIndexURL)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
var urls []string
for _, sm := range idx.Sitemaps {
locs, err := sitemapJobLocs(ctx, e.http, sm.Loc, energyjoblineJobID)
locs, err := sitemapJobLocs(ctx, e.sitemap, sm.Loc, energyjoblineJobID)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
Expand All @@ -81,7 +82,7 @@ func (e energyjobline) detail(ctx context.Context, ce CompanyEntry, link string)
if id == "" {
return Job{}, false
}
root, err := e.http.GetHTML(ctx, link)
root, err := e.pages.GetHTML(ctx, link)
if err != nil {
if detailUnreadable(err) {
return unreadableDetail(id, link, ce.Company), true
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20 changes: 10 additions & 10 deletions internal/ingest/sources/energyjobline_test.go
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Expand Up @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ func TestEnergyjoblineFetchWalksIndexThenDetailAndMaps(t *testing.T) {
)).
route("/job/controls-engineer-atlanta-31835232", detail)

jobs, err := NewEnergyJobline(fake).Fetch(context.Background(), CompanyEntry{
jobs, err := NewEnergyJobline(fake, fake).Fetch(context.Background(), CompanyEntry{
Company: "EnergyJobline", Provider: "energyjobline",
})
if err != nil {
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ func TestEnergyjoblineFetchWalksIndexThenDetailAndMaps(t *testing.T) {

func TestEnergyjoblineBrokenSitemapIndexErrorsTheCrawl(t *testing.T) {
fake := (&routedHTTP{}).routeErr("sitemap.xml", errors.New("origin down"))
_, err := NewEnergyJobline(fake).Fetch(context.Background(), CompanyEntry{
_, err := NewEnergyJobline(fake, fake).Fetch(context.Background(), CompanyEntry{
Company: "EnergyJobline", Provider: "energyjobline",
})
if err == nil {
Expand All @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ func TestEnergyjoblineSubSitemapFailureFailsTheCrawl(t *testing.T) {
)).
routeErr("sitemap.xml?page=2", errors.New("origin down"))

_, err := NewEnergyJobline(fake).Fetch(context.Background(), CompanyEntry{
_, err := NewEnergyJobline(fake, fake).Fetch(context.Background(), CompanyEntry{
Company: "EnergyJobline", Provider: "energyjobline",
})
if err == nil {
Expand All @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ func TestEnergyjoblineCompanyComesFromThePosting(t *testing.T) {
"desc", "2026-10-02", "Kent", "GB")
fake := (&routedHTTP{}).route("/job/welder-kent-27543774", detail)

j, ok := energyjobline{http: fake}.detail(context.Background(),
j, ok := energyjobline{sitemap: fake, pages: fake}.detail(context.Background(),
CompanyEntry{Company: "EnergyJobline", Provider: "energyjobline"}, jobURL)
if !ok {
t.Fatal("detail returned ok=false")
Expand All @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ func TestEnergyjoblineUnreadableDetailWhenHiringOrgEmpty(t *testing.T) {
detail := energyjoblineDetailHTML("Mystery Role", "", "desc", "2026-10-02", "Kent", "GB")
fake := (&routedHTTP{}).route("/job/no-employer-99999999", detail)

j, ok := energyjobline{http: fake}.detail(context.Background(),
j, ok := energyjobline{sitemap: fake, pages: fake}.detail(context.Background(),
CompanyEntry{Company: "EnergyJobline", Provider: "energyjobline"}, jobURL)
if !ok {
t.Fatal("detail returned ok=false, want an unreadableDetail stub")
Expand All @@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ func TestEnergyjoblineUnreadableDetailWhenNoJobPosting(t *testing.T) {
jobURL := "https://www.energyjobline.com/job/broken-page-11111111"
fake := (&routedHTTP{}).route("/job/broken-page-11111111", "<html><body>no ld+json here</body></html>")

j, ok := energyjobline{http: fake}.detail(context.Background(),
j, ok := energyjobline{sitemap: fake, pages: fake}.detail(context.Background(),
CompanyEntry{Company: "EnergyJobline", Provider: "energyjobline"}, jobURL)
if !ok {
t.Fatal("detail returned ok=false, want an unreadableDetail stub")
Expand All @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ func TestEnergyjoblineDetailWithNoJobLocation(t *testing.T) {
`</script></head><body></body></html>`
fake := (&routedHTTP{}).route("/job/no-location-66666666", html)

j, ok := energyjobline{http: fake}.detail(context.Background(),
j, ok := energyjobline{sitemap: fake, pages: fake}.detail(context.Background(),
CompanyEntry{Company: "EnergyJobline", Provider: "energyjobline"}, jobURL)
if !ok {
t.Fatal("detail returned ok=false")
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ func TestEnergyjoblineOneBadDetailDoesNotFailTheCrawl(t *testing.T) {
route("/job/good-job-22222222", good).
routeErr("/job/bad-job-33333333", errors.New("fetch failed"))

jobs, err := NewEnergyJobline(fake).Fetch(context.Background(), CompanyEntry{
jobs, err := NewEnergyJobline(fake, fake).Fetch(context.Background(), CompanyEntry{
Company: "EnergyJobline", Provider: "energyjobline",
})
if err != nil {
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ func TestEnergyjoblineGoneDetailDropsThePosting(t *testing.T) {
route("/job/good-job-44444444", good).
routeErr("/job/gone-job-55555555", &StatusError{Method: "GET", Code: 404, URL: goneURL})

jobs, err := NewEnergyJobline(fake).Fetch(context.Background(), CompanyEntry{
jobs, err := NewEnergyJobline(fake, fake).Fetch(context.Background(), CompanyEntry{
Company: "EnergyJobline", Provider: "energyjobline",
})
if err != nil {
Expand All @@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ func TestEnergyjoblineGoneDetailDropsThePosting(t *testing.T) {
}

func TestEnergyjoblineProviderAndBoardless(t *testing.T) {
s := NewEnergyJobline(nil)
s := NewEnergyJobline(nil, nil)
if s.Provider() != "energyjobline" {
t.Errorf("Provider() = %q, want energyjobline", s.Provider())
}
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18 changes: 18 additions & 0 deletions internal/ingest/sources/http.go
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Expand Up @@ -332,6 +332,24 @@ func newBrowserUAClient() *Client {
return c
}

// crawlerUserAgent identifies as Googlebot, for the one provider whose edge does the OPPOSITE
// of blocking bots: energyjobline.com's job-detail pages server-render their schema.org
// JobPosting ld+json only for a recognised search-crawler User-Agent. Both the project's own
// "freehire/0.1 (+https://freehire.me)" and a plain desktop browser string (browserUserAgent)
// get a client-rendered shell with no ld+json at all — verified live 2026-10-07. The site's own
// robots.txt does not disallow the /job/ path, and SSR'ing only for crawlers is how it gets
// Google's job rich snippets in the first place, so this is the intended way to read exactly
// the content it already publishes for search engines, not a bypass of a restriction.
const crawlerUserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"

// newCrawlerUAClient is NewClient with crawlerUserAgent — same guarded transport, same retry
// budget, same everything else.
func newCrawlerUAClient() *Client {
c := NewClient()
c.userAgent = crawlerUserAgent
return c
}

// NewCookieClient exposes newCookieClient to host tools (e.g. harvest-boards' Taleo
// prober, which reuses the session-bound Taleo adapter to validate a board).
func NewCookieClient() *Client { return newCookieClient() }
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14 changes: 14 additions & 0 deletions internal/ingest/sources/pacer.go
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Expand Up @@ -100,6 +100,20 @@ const (
clinchRequestBurst = 1
)

// energyjobline.com's own robots.txt declares Crawl-delay: 10 for every user agent, and its
// sitemap enumerates roughly 171,000 postings (measured 2026-10-07) — honouring the declared
// rate literally would take a single crawl on the order of weeks. This is a policy choice, not
// a measured block-avoidance ceiling (contrast clinch's WAF trip point): the actual bug a first
// unpaced run hit was unrelated to rate — see crawlerUserAgent — and no rate-triggered block has
// been observed here yet. The pace is a deliberate compromise, faster than the site asks for
// and slower than an unpaced crawl, chosen because honouring Crawl-delay literally is
// impractical at this catalogue size. Revisit if energyjobline.com starts refusing requests at
// this rate.
const (
energyjoblineRequestInterval = 1500 * time.Millisecond // ~0.67 req/s
energyjoblineRequestBurst = 1
)
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Set the EnergyJobline detail interval to 10 seconds.

The reachable detail path passes through the paced HTML getter and calls e.pages.GetHTML(ctx, link). The current 1500 * time.Millisecond interval allows detail requests every 1.5 seconds, but the repository documents EnergyJobline's Crawl-delay: 10. Set this interval to 10 seconds.

Suggested fix 
-	energyjoblineRequestInterval = 1500 * time.Millisecond // ~0.67 req/s
+	energyjoblineRequestInterval = 10 * time.Second
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const (
energyjoblineRequestInterval = 1500 * time.Millisecond // ~0.67 req/s
energyjoblineRequestBurst = 1
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const (
energyjoblineRequestInterval = 10 * time.Second
energyjoblineRequestBurst = 1
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Update energyjoblineRequestInterval to 10 seconds so requests through the paced
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// rateLimitedJSONGetter is the JSON-GET counterpart of rateLimitedHTMLGetter: it wraps a
// JSONGetter with a shared limiter so its aggregate GetJSON rate stays under the endpoint's
// budget, independent of the caller's worker concurrency. One instance carries one limiter, so
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5 changes: 4 additions & 1 deletion internal/ingest/sources/registry.go
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Expand Up @@ -354,7 +354,10 @@ func All(c HTTPClient) map[string]Source {
// listing and detail pages are fully static server-rendered HTML.
NewStaffy(c),
NewDataArt(c),
NewEnergyJobline(c),
// energyjobline's detail pages need the Googlebot UA (see crawlerUserAgent) and are
// rate-paced (pacedHTMLGetter, see energyjoblineRequestInterval); the sitemap does
// not, so it stays on the shared client.
NewEnergyJobline(c, pacedHTMLGetter(newCrawlerUAClient(), energyjoblineRequestInterval, energyjoblineRequestBurst)),
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Pace the sitemap getter separately.

NewEnergyJobline passes the shared client directly for sitemap requests. The index and sub-sitemap calls therefore bypass pacedHTMLGetter. Changing the detail interval to 10 seconds does not pace these requests, so they can violate EnergyJobline's documented Crawl-delay: 10.

🐛 Suggested fix 
-		NewEnergyJobline(c, pacedHTMLGetter(newCrawlerUAClient(), energyjoblineRequestInterval, energyjoblineRequestBurst)),
+		NewEnergyJobline(pacedHTMLGetter(c, 10*time.Second, 1), pacedHTMLGetter(newCrawlerUAClient(), energyjoblineRequestInterval, energyjoblineRequestBurst)),
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// energyjobline's detail pages need the Googlebot UA (see crawlerUserAgent) and are
// rate-paced (pacedHTMLGetter, see energyjoblineRequestInterval); the sitemap does
// not, so it stays on the shared client.
NewEnergyJobline(c, pacedHTMLGetter(newCrawlerUAClient(), energyjoblineRequestInterval, energyjoblineRequestBurst)),
// energyjobline's detail pages need the Googlebot UA (see crawlerUserAgent) and are
// rate-paced (pacedHTMLGetter, see energyjoblineRequestInterval); the sitemap does
// not, so it stays on the shared client.
NewEnergyJobline(pacedHTMLGetter(c, 10*time.Second, 1), pacedHTMLGetter(newCrawlerUAClient(), energyjoblineRequestInterval, energyjoblineRequestBurst)),
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Review comment at @internal/ingest/sources/registry.go around lines 357 - 360:
Update the NewEnergyJobline registration to wrap the shared client used for
sitemap requests with pacedHTMLGetter, using the documented 10-second crawl
delay and a burst of one; keep the existing paced crawler-UA client for detail
requests unchanged.

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// JettyCloud: its postings exist only on its own careers site — the employer runs no
// ATS a crawl can reach, so this adapter is the only way the catalogue can carry it.
NewJettyCloud(c),
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