I don't think it does at present, but it should be straightforward to implement. I suggest proposing the action at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Citation_bot, with a generalized description of the problem (i.e. this is a bigger request than just Rock's back pages, or oclc). GlazerMann, who is doing most of the work on the bot at present, will be able to feed back as to whether he has the capacity to implement this in the bot.

That seems to have done it. It's now up and running. Amazing! Thanks again!

In T205213#4619714, @zhuyifei1999 wrote:

Could you change it within npm start?

Thanks for the link. It looks like jswebservice.py doesn't refer to the $PATH variable.

Sounds like you've found the problem! Node v8+ is required for the script.

That's interesting; having done that, the web service now starts. I wonder why it didn't this morning...
It's certainly useful to know that PORT won't be defined with a webservice shell.

I added port=1969; to help with debugging; it didn't work without this line either.

I've addressed this by adding export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH to $HOME/.profile.
webservice --backend=kubernetes nodejs shell then allows me to verify that node -v is v11.0.0.

I'd suggest popping a note on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Citation_bot, where the other maintainers (who have a little more time on their hands) will be able to look into the problem and suggest a solution.

Absolutely! See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:UCB for details.

Citation bot is currently activated by users, who keep an eye on its output; as such it is not yet processing large volumes of pages. The plan is to deploy it at a larger scale in the near future (next couple of months), at which point openURLs will start appearing more widely.

Reading the documentation more carefully I see that this error can arise if cookies are not handled correctly, which is likely the cause. Apologies.