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Pete/internal/ingestion/poller.go
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prosolis 517019d4a4 storage: keep the stories people saved, and prune more than once a deploy
Maintenance deleted every story older than 30 days and then swept up any
user_story_state row pointing at a story that no longer existed. A bookmark
is one of those rows, so every saved story quietly vanished a month after
Pete first saw it, which is exactly what saving it was meant to prevent. A
bookmarked story is now exempt from the prune; read markers on pruned
stories still go.

Maintenance also only ran at startup, on a service that can go weeks between
deploys, so nothing was pruned for weeks and then everything was at once. It
runs at startup and then daily.

Pruning daily makes one old hole steady-state: the stories row is Pete's only
memory of a GUID, so a slow feed still listing month-old items would meet
them again as new the day after their rows went. The poller now skips items
published before the retention window. Undated items can't be judged and
still pass.
2026-09-22 23:13:58 -07:00

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package ingestion
import (
"context"
"log/slog"
"strings"
"sync"
"time"
"pete/internal/config"
"pete/internal/dedup"
"pete/internal/storage"
)
// ProcessFunc is called for each new feed item that needs routing.
type ProcessFunc func(ctx context.Context, item *FeedItem)
// Poller manages per-source RSS polling goroutines.
type Poller struct {
sources []config.SourceConfig
process ProcessFunc
wg sync.WaitGroup
}
// NewPoller creates a poller for the given sources.
func NewPoller(sources []config.SourceConfig, process ProcessFunc) *Poller {
return &Poller{
sources: sources,
process: process,
}
}
// Start launches a goroutine per enabled source. Blocks until ctx is cancelled.
func (p *Poller) Start(ctx context.Context) {
for _, src := range p.sources {
if !src.Enabled {
slog.Info("source disabled, skipping", "source", src.Name)
continue
}
p.wg.Add(1)
go p.pollSource(ctx, src)
}
}
// Wait blocks until all polling goroutines have exited.
func (p *Poller) Wait() {
p.wg.Wait()
}
func (p *Poller) pollSource(ctx context.Context, src config.SourceConfig) {
defer p.wg.Done()
interval := time.Duration(src.PollIntervalMinutes) * time.Minute
ticker := time.NewTicker(interval)
defer ticker.Stop()
slog.Info("starting poller", "source", src.Name, "interval", interval)
// Poll immediately on start, then on ticker
p.pollOnce(ctx, src)
consecutiveFailures := 0
const adminWarningThreshold = 5
for {
select {
case <-ctx.Done():
slog.Info("poller stopping", "source", src.Name)
return
case <-ticker.C:
if err := p.pollOnceWithErr(ctx, src); err != nil {
consecutiveFailures++
slog.Error("feed poll failed",
"source", src.Name,
"err", err,
"consecutive_failures", consecutiveFailures,
)
if consecutiveFailures == adminWarningThreshold {
slog.Warn("persistent feed failure",
"source", src.Name,
"failures", consecutiveFailures,
)
}
} else {
consecutiveFailures = 0
}
}
}
}
func (p *Poller) pollOnce(ctx context.Context, src config.SourceConfig) {
if err := p.pollOnceWithErr(ctx, src); err != nil {
slog.Error("feed poll failed", "source", src.Name, "err", err)
}
}
func (p *Poller) pollOnceWithErr(ctx context.Context, src config.SourceConfig) error {
items, err := FetchFeed(src.FeedURL, src.UserAgent)
if err != nil {
// Persist the failure for the owner-facing source-health dashboard. The
// in-memory consecutiveFailures in pollSource drives log warnings; this
// row is the authoritative record the dashboard reads.
storage.RecordPollResult(src.Name, false, 0, err)
return err
}
// A successful fetch: record health now (before per-item processing) with
// the number of items the feed returned, so the dashboard reflects feed
// reachability even if individual items are later dropped as duplicates.
storage.RecordPollResult(src.Name, true, len(items), nil)
newCount := 0
for i := range items {
if ctx.Err() != nil {
slog.Info("poller: cancellation observed mid-loop", "source", src.Name, "processed", newCount)
return nil
}
if storage.IsGUIDSeen(items[i].GUID) {
continue
}
// An item older than the retention window is one Pete has either
// already shown and since pruned, or never needs to: maintenance would
// delete it on the next pass. Without this, a slow feed that still
// lists month-old items re-ingests them as new the day after their row
// is pruned, since that row was the only memory of them. Items with no
// date can't be judged and pass through.
if items[i].PublishedAt > 0 && time.Since(time.Unix(items[i].PublishedAt, 0)) > storage.StoryRetention {
continue
}
// Drop items in languages this source isn't configured to surface.
// Items without a language tag pass through — only filter when the
// feed explicitly marks an item with a non-matching language.
if src.Language != "" && items[i].Language != "" &&
!strings.HasPrefix(items[i].Language, strings.ToLower(src.Language)) {
slog.Info("dropping story (language filter)",
"guid", items[i].GUID, "source", src.Name,
"item_lang", items[i].Language, "want", src.Language)
continue
}
// Dedup checks first — canonical and headline use the ORIGINAL URL so
// they stay stable whether we end up swapping to a Wayback snapshot.
originalURL := items[i].ArticleURL
canonical := dedup.CanonicalURL(originalURL)
headlineNorm := dedup.NormalizeHeadline(items[i].Headline)
if storage.IsCanonicalSeen(canonical) {
slog.Info("dropping duplicate story (canonical URL match)",
"guid", items[i].GUID, "url_canonical", canonical, "source", src.Name)
continue
}
if storage.IsHeadlineSeen(src.Name, headlineNorm) {
slog.Info("dropping duplicate story (headline match)",
"guid", items[i].GUID, "headline_norm", headlineNorm, "source", src.Name)
continue
}
// Genuinely new story — fetch the article page once (with an internal
// bypass-UA retry on gating signals). We use it for:
// 1. og:image fallback when the feed didn't give us one.
// 2. Paywall detection: explicit gating signals or a body too short
// to be a real article means we swap in an archive snapshot for
// both Pete (image) and the reader (posted link).
//
// Pure transport failures (FetchError) are NOT treated as gating —
// swapping in a stale snapshot for a transient blip is worse than
// posting the live link.
meta := FetchArticleMeta(originalURL)
// Some sources (e.g. LWN's subscriber-only articles) have no public
// version reachable by any workaround. Drop these from view entirely
// rather than stamping them as paywalled.
if meta.SubscriberOnly {
// No DB row written, so the next poll will re-fetch and re-detect
// this URL — fine in practice since LWN's feed is tiny and the
// alternative (a tombstone row) leaks into every story query.
slog.Info("dropping subscriber-only story",
"guid", items[i].GUID, "url", originalURL, "source", src.Name)
continue
}
// bodyText is the article text we may store for reader mode. It starts
// as the body scraped during the fetch above and is upgraded to the
// snapshot's body if we end up swapping in an archive snapshot.
bodyText := meta.BodyText
gated := meta.Gated() || (meta.Fetched && meta.BodyChars < PaywallBodyThreshold)
// paywalled tracks whether the link the user will click is still
// gated — i.e. gating was detected AND no archive workaround worked.
// When a snapshot swap succeeds, the reader gets a readable page, so
// we don't stamp it.
paywalled := false
if gated {
workedAround := false
if snap := resolveArchive(originalURL); snap != "" {
snapMeta := FetchArticleMeta(snap)
if snapMeta.Fetched {
items[i].ArticleURL = snap
if items[i].ImageURL == "" && snapMeta.ImageURL != "" {
items[i].ImageURL = snapMeta.ImageURL
}
if snapMeta.BodyText != "" {
bodyText = snapMeta.BodyText
}
workedAround = true
slog.Info("paywall detected, using archive snapshot",
"guid", items[i].GUID, "original", originalURL,
"snapshot", snap, "body_chars", meta.BodyChars,
"status", meta.Status)
} else {
slog.Debug("paywall detected but snapshot fetch failed",
"guid", items[i].GUID, "original", originalURL, "snapshot", snap)
}
} else {
slog.Debug("paywall detected but no archive snapshot available",
"guid", items[i].GUID, "url", originalURL,
"body_chars", meta.BodyChars, "status", meta.Status)
}
paywalled = !workedAround
} else if items[i].ImageURL == "" && meta.ImageURL != "" {
items[i].ImageURL = meta.ImageURL
slog.Debug("og:image fallback used",
"guid", items[i].GUID, "url", originalURL, "image", meta.ImageURL)
}
// Stamp source metadata onto the item
items[i].Source = src.Name
items[i].DirectRoute = src.DirectRoute
// Store immediately (before routing) to prevent re-ingestion.
// Future-dated pubDates (publishers occasionally post-date drafts or
// have a misconfigured clock) get clamped to ingest time so they don't
// stick at the top of the queue indefinitely.
seenAt := time.Now().Unix()
publishedAt := items[i].PublishedAt
if publishedAt > seenAt {
publishedAt = seenAt
}
// Reader-mode body: prefer whichever source gave us more complete text.
// Feeds that ship full content:encoded usually win; feeds that only
// syndicate a snippet fall back to the scraped article body.
content := items[i].Content
if len(bodyText) > len(content) {
content = bodyText
}
if err := storage.InsertStory(&storage.Story{
GUID: items[i].GUID,
Headline: items[i].Headline,
Lede: items[i].Lede,
Content: content,
ImageURL: items[i].ImageURL,
ArticleURL: items[i].ArticleURL,
URLCanonical: canonical,
HeadlineNorm: headlineNorm,
Source: items[i].Source,
Paywalled: paywalled,
SeenAt: seenAt,
PublishedAt: publishedAt,
}); err != nil {
slog.Error("failed to insert story", "guid", items[i].GUID, "err", err)
continue
}
p.process(ctx, &items[i])
newCount++
}
if newCount > 0 {
slog.Info("ingested new stories", "source", src.Name, "count", newCount)
}
return nil
}
// resolveArchive tries Wayback first (well-behaved availability API, fresh
// snapshots filtered) and falls back to archive.today, which often has
// captures Wayback doesn't — especially for hard-walled publishers.
func resolveArchive(articleURL string) string {
if snap := ResolveWayback(articleURL); snap != "" {
return snap
}
return ResolveArchiveToday(articleURL)
}