"""Fetching, with a cache that knows which documents can never change. An archived news release is immutable by definition: it is what the agency published on a particular morning, and the agency's own archive page is the promise that it stays that way. A schedule page is the opposite -- it changes whenever a release moves, which is the whole reason the calendar is a table here. The cache treats the two differently, and nothing else in the pipeline has to think about it. """ from __future__ import annotations import asyncio import hashlib import json import logging import time from dataclasses import dataclass from datetime import UTC, datetime from pathlib import Path from urllib.parse import urlsplit import httpx LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__) # Agencies publish no numeric rate limit. This is deliberately slower than what # the hosts would tolerate: a backfill is a few thousand documents, it runs # once, and nothing downstream is latency sensitive. DEFAULT_RPS = 4.0 # Census answers 429 well below the rate the other agencies tolerate, and a # backfill that ignores it loses whole years -- fifty-nine housing releases in # one run, recorded as unreadable when they were simply never served. These are # the rates each host is asked at, and they are per host, so one slow agency # does not hold up the others. HOST_RPS = { "www.census.gov": 1.0, "www2.census.gov": 1.0, "www.bea.gov": 2.0, "apps.bea.gov": 2.0, } TIMEOUT = httpx.Timeout(60.0, connect=30.0) RETRY_STATUS = frozenset({429, 500, 502, 503, 504}) # A 429 is the host asking for a pause, not a transient error, so it is waited # out for much longer than a 503. THROTTLED_BACKOFF = 20.0 MAX_ATTEMPTS = 5 # A request that is allowed to come back empty is a probe -- "is there a # release for this week?" -- and ETA answers such a probe with 502 rather than # 404. Retrying that five times with exponential backoff costs a minute per # URL and buys nothing, so a probe gives up quickly. MAX_ATTEMPTS_WHEN_OPTIONAL = 2 # How long a "there is nothing here" answer is believed. Long enough that a # rebuild does not re-probe two thousand URLs, short enough that a release # published today is found tomorrow. MISSING_MAX_AGE = 2 * 24 * 3600 @dataclass(frozen=True, slots=True) class Artifact: """One downloaded document and everything needed to prove where it came from.""" url: str content: bytes sha256: str content_type: str downloaded_at: datetime from_cache: bool @property def text(self) -> str: # Agency releases are ASCII with the occasional Windows-1252 dash; a # strict decode would fail on those and lose a whole release over a # punctuation mark. return self.content.decode("utf-8", errors="replace") @property def length(self) -> int: return len(self.content) def cache_key(url: str) -> str: return hashlib.sha1(url.encode("utf-8")).hexdigest() class Fetcher: """Rate-limited, cached, retrying HTTP client for the agency hosts.""" def __init__( self, *, user_agent: str, cache_dir: Path, requests_per_second: float = DEFAULT_RPS, client: httpx.AsyncClient | None = None, force_revalidate: bool = False, ) -> None: self.user_agent = user_agent self.cache_dir = Path(cache_dir) self.cache_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) self._interval = 1.0 / max(requests_per_second, 0.1) self._host_intervals = { host: 1.0 / min(rate, max(requests_per_second, 0.1)) for host, rate in HOST_RPS.items() } # `--rebuild` re-reads the pages that change -- the archive indexes and # the schedules -- and still serves the archived releases from cache. # An archived release cannot change, so refetching a decade of them to # pick up a new index entry would be pure waste asked of the agency. self.force_revalidate = force_revalidate self._client = client self._owned = client is None # One gate per host: BLS being slow is no reason to stall Census. self._gates: dict[str, asyncio.Lock] = {} self._last: dict[str, float] = {} async def __aenter__(self) -> Fetcher: if self._client is None: self._client = httpx.AsyncClient( timeout=TIMEOUT, follow_redirects=True, headers={"User-Agent": self.user_agent, "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate"}, ) return self async def __aexit__(self, *_exc) -> None: if self._owned and self._client is not None: await self._client.aclose() self._client = None def _paths(self, url: str) -> tuple[Path, Path]: key = cache_key(url) return self.cache_dir / f"{key}.bin", self.cache_dir / f"{key}.json" def known_missing(self, url: str, *, max_age_seconds: float = MISSING_MAX_AGE) -> bool: """Whether this URL was recently found not to exist. Discovery probes thousands of URLs that will never exist -- a week with no release, a month Census never archived -- and without this every rebuild asks the agencies for all of them again. """ _, meta = self._paths(url) if not meta.is_file(): return False try: record = json.loads(meta.read_text(encoding="utf-8")) except json.JSONDecodeError: return False if not record.get("missing"): return False age = (datetime.now(UTC) - datetime.fromisoformat(record["checked_at"])).total_seconds() return age <= max_age_seconds def _store_missing(self, url: str) -> None: _, meta = self._paths(url) meta.write_text( json.dumps( {"url": url, "missing": True, "checked_at": datetime.now(UTC).isoformat()}, indent=2, ), encoding="utf-8", ) def cached(self, url: str, *, max_age_seconds: float | None = None) -> Artifact | None: blob, meta = self._paths(url) if not (blob.is_file() and meta.is_file()): return None try: record = json.loads(meta.read_text(encoding="utf-8")) except json.JSONDecodeError: return None downloaded_at = datetime.fromisoformat(record["downloaded_at"]) if max_age_seconds is not None: age = (datetime.now(UTC) - downloaded_at).total_seconds() if age > max_age_seconds: return None content = blob.read_bytes() digest = hashlib.sha256(content).hexdigest() if digest != record.get("sha256"): # A cache entry that does not hash to what it claims is not a cache # entry. Silently trusting it would put an unprovable value into a # dataset whose whole promise is provenance. LOGGER.warning("cache entry for %s does not match its digest; refetching", url) return None return Artifact( url=url, content=content, sha256=digest, content_type=record.get("content_type", ""), downloaded_at=downloaded_at, from_cache=True, ) def _store(self, url: str, content: bytes, content_type: str) -> Artifact: blob, meta = self._paths(url) digest = hashlib.sha256(content).hexdigest() now = datetime.now(UTC) blob.write_bytes(content) meta.write_text( json.dumps( { "url": url, "sha256": digest, "content_type": content_type, "content_length": len(content), "downloaded_at": now.isoformat(), }, indent=2, ), encoding="utf-8", ) return Artifact( url=url, content=content, sha256=digest, content_type=content_type, downloaded_at=now, from_cache=False, ) async def _throttle(self, host: str) -> None: interval = self._host_intervals.get(host, self._interval) gate = self._gates.setdefault(host, asyncio.Lock()) async with gate: elapsed = time.monotonic() - self._last.get(host, 0.0) if elapsed < interval: await asyncio.sleep(interval - elapsed) self._last[host] = time.monotonic() async def get( self, url: str, *, max_age_seconds: float | None = None, allow_missing: bool = False, missing_max_age: float = MISSING_MAX_AGE, ) -> Artifact | None: """Fetch a document, or return the cached copy. `max_age_seconds=None` means "this document is immutable" -- an archived release. Pass a number for anything the agency rewrites. """ if self.force_revalidate and max_age_seconds is not None: max_age_seconds = 0 hit = self.cached(url, max_age_seconds=max_age_seconds) if hit is not None: return hit if allow_missing and self.known_missing(url, max_age_seconds=missing_max_age): return None if self._client is None: raise RuntimeError("use the Fetcher as an async context manager") host = urlsplit(url).netloc last_error: Exception | None = None attempts = MAX_ATTEMPTS_WHEN_OPTIONAL if allow_missing else MAX_ATTEMPTS for attempt in range(1, attempts + 1): await self._throttle(host) try: response = await self._client.get(url) except httpx.HTTPError as error: # pragma: no cover - network dependent last_error = error await asyncio.sleep(min(2**attempt, 30)) continue if response.status_code == 404 and allow_missing: self._store_missing(url) return None if response.status_code in RETRY_STATUS: await asyncio.sleep( THROTTLED_BACKOFF * attempt if response.status_code == 429 else min(2**attempt, 30) ) last_error = httpx.HTTPStatusError( f"{response.status_code} for {url}", request=response.request, response=response, ) continue response.raise_for_status() return self._store( url, response.content, response.headers.get("content-type", "").split(";")[0] ) if allow_missing: LOGGER.info("nothing at %s (%s)", url, last_error) self._store_missing(url) return None raise RuntimeError(f"could not fetch {url}: {last_error}") __all__ = ["Artifact", "Fetcher", "cache_key"]