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TEMP: probe FRED endpoints from a GitHub runner (do not merge) #116

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TEMP: probe FRED endpoints from a GitHub runner (do not merge)
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TEMP: FRED probe step (probe branch only, do not merge)
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28 changes: 28 additions & 0 deletions .github/workflows/consumed-file-check.yml
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Expand Up @@ -52,3 +52,31 @@ jobs:
echo "::error file=CATALOG.md::CATALOG.md is stale. A manifest changed without regenerating the catalog — run 'python scripts/build_catalog.py' and commit the result."
exit 1
}

# TEMPORARY diagnostic (probe branch only, never merge): which FRED
# endpoints answer from a GitHub-hosted runner, with which user agent?
- name: FRED probe
run: |
probe () {
printf 'PROBE %-75s %-20s ' "$1" "$2"
curl -sS -o /dev/null -m 25 -A "$2" -w "http %{http_code} %{size_download}B %{time_total}s\n" "$1" || echo "FAILED (curl exit $?)"
}
U="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.csv?id=UNRATE"
probe "$U" "qeld-builder"
probe "$U" "Python-urllib/3.12"
probe "$U" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 Chrome/128 Safari/537.36"
probe "$U" "curl/8.5.0"
probe "https://fred.stlouisfed.org/data/UNRATE.txt" "qeld-builder"
probe "https://api.stlouisfed.org/fred/series/observations?series_id=UNRATE&file_type=json" "qeld-builder"
echo "PROBE egress IP: $(curl -s -m 10 https://api.ipify.org)"
echo "PROBE python urllib, qeld-builder UA, 25s timeout:"
python - <<'PY'
import urllib.request, time
for ua in ['qeld-builder', 'Python-urllib/3.12', 'Mozilla/5.0']:
t=time.time()
try:
r=urllib.request.urlopen(urllib.request.Request('https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.csv?id=UNRATE', headers={'User-Agent': ua}), timeout=25)
print(f'PROBE urllib {ua!r}: {r.status} {len(r.read())}B {time.time()-t:.1f}s')
except Exception as e:
print(f'PROBE urllib {ua!r}: {type(e).__name__} {str(e)[:60]} after {time.time()-t:.1f}s')
PY
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