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InternetArchiveBot failing to expand category trees
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

What happens?:

The bot fails to expand the category tree of the input category, and, instead, runs only on the category page itself. (Example of this behavior.)

What should have happened instead?:

The bot should've fully-expanded the category tree of the input category and fetched all the pages in said category tree for the resulting batch job, as described in the bot's documentation.

Event Timeline

Harej triaged this task as Medium priority.Apr 11 2023, 8:22 PM

The bot's back to failing to expand category trees, after several months of expanding category trees properly.

Cyberpower678 claimed this task.

It hasn't been resolved; IABot is still failing to expand category trees for categories entered as part of a batch job.

I just tried to submit a batch job including a number of categories, and I got this.

I don't know what you're doing to trigger that error, but when I copy your job list into the text field and submit it, I get https://iabot.wmcloud.org/index.php?page=viewjob&id=15129

Huh. I've even tried logging out and back in again, and I'm still running into the same bug...

NVM, resolved for me now as well. (Going through the high-volume-activity OAuth process again apparently did the trick.)

Apologies!

Actually, I think you just clued me in as to what’s happening here. It might be the ident only consumer can’t actually make any API requests, thus it can’t resolve the categories. When you switch to the full consumer, the problem goes away.