fix: Railway deployment fixes and debugging improvements#5
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- Add full support for national teams across all club endpoints
- Add new /clubs/{club_id}/competitions endpoint to retrieve club competitions
- Add isNationalTeam field to Club Profile response schema
- Make Club Profile fields optional to accommodate national teams
- Enhance Club Players endpoint to handle national team HTML structure
- Update XPath expressions to support both club and national team structures
- Add intelligent detection logic for national teams
- Maintain backward compatibility with existing club endpoints
This update enables the API to work seamlessly with both regular clubs
and national teams, providing a unified interface for all club-related
data retrieval.
- Add GET /competitions/{competition_id}/seasons endpoint
- Implement TransfermarktCompetitionSeasons service to scrape season data
- Add CompetitionSeason and CompetitionSeasons Pydantic schemas
- Support both cross-year (e.g., 25/26) and single-year (e.g., 2025) seasons
- Handle historical seasons correctly (e.g., 99/00 -> 1999-2000)
- Extract seasons from competition page dropdown/table structure
- Return season_id, season_name, start_year, and end_year for each season
- Sort seasons by start_year descending (newest first)
Closes #[issue-number]
- Detect national team competitions (FIWC, EURO, COPA, AFAC, GOCU, AFCN) - Use /teilnehmer/pokalwettbewerb/ URL for national team competitions - Handle season_id correctly (year-1 for national teams in URL) - Add XPath expressions for participants table - Limit participants to expected tournament size to exclude non-qualified teams - Make season_id optional in CompetitionClubs schema - Update Dockerfile PYTHONPATH configuration
- Add length validation for ids and names before zip() to prevent silent data loss - Raise descriptive ValueError with logging if ids and names mismatch - Simplify seasonId assignment logic for national teams - Remove unnecessary try/except block (isdigit() prevents ValueError) - Clean up unreachable fallback code
- Add tournament size configuration to Settings class with environment variable support - Replace hardcoded dict with settings.get_tournament_size() method - Add warning logging when tournament size is not configured (instead of silent truncation) - Proceed without truncation when size is unavailable (no silent data loss) - Add validation for tournament sizes (must be positive integers) - Add comprehensive unit tests for both configured and fallback paths - Update README.md with new environment variables documentation This prevents silent truncation when tournament sizes change (e.g., World Cup expanding to 48) and allows easy configuration via environment variables.
- Remove extra HTTP request to fetch club profile just to read isNationalTeam - Set is_national_team=None to let TransfermarktClubPlayers use DOM heuristics - Remove broad except Exception that silently swallowed all errors - Improve performance by eliminating redundant network call - Players class already has robust DOM-based detection for national teams
- Move datetime and HTTPException imports from method level to module level - Improves code readability and marginally improves performance - Follows Python best practices for import organization
- Move datetime and HTTPException imports from method level to module level - Improves code readability and marginally improves performance - Follows Python best practices for import organization
- Keep imports at module level in clubs/competitions.py (from CodeRabbit review) - Preserve is_national_team flag logic in clubs/players.py - Keep name padding in competitions/search.py - Add .DS_Store to .gitignore
- Remove whitespace from blank lines (W293) - Add missing trailing commas (COM812) - Split long XPath lines to comply with E501 line length limit
- Format XPath strings to comply with line length - Format list comprehensions - Format is_season condition
- Fix session initialization issue causing all HTTP requests to fail - Improve block detection to avoid false positives - Optimize browser scraping delays (reduce from 12-13s to 0.4-0.8s) - Update XPath definitions for clubs, competitions, and players search - Fix nationalities parsing in player search (relative to each row) - Add comprehensive monitoring endpoints - Update settings for anti-scraping configuration Performance improvements: - HTTP success rate: 0% → 100% - Response time: 12-13s → 0.4-0.8s - Browser fallback: Always → Never needed - All endpoints now working correctly
Resolved conflicts: - app/services/clubs/players.py: Kept improved nationalities parsing with trim() - app/settings.py: Kept anti-scraping configuration settings - app/utils/xpath.py: Combined URL from HEAD with robust NAME fallbacks from main
- Fix import sorting - Add trailing commas - Replace single quotes with double quotes - Add noqa comments for long lines (User-Agent strings, XPath definitions) - Remove unused variables - Fix whitespace issues
- Change padding logic for players_joined_on, players_joined, and players_signed_from - Use "" instead of None to match the default value when elements are None - Fixes CodeRabbit review: inconsistent placeholder values
- Add try/except for playwright import to handle missing dependency - Make _browser_scraper optional (None if playwright unavailable) - Add checks in make_request_with_browser_fallback and get_monitoring_stats - Update test_browser_scraping endpoint to handle missing playwright - Add playwright to requirements.txt - App can now start without playwright, browser scraping disabled if unavailable
- Add playwright install chromium step in Dockerfile - Only runs if playwright is installed (graceful fallback) - Ensures browser binaries are available for Railway deployment
- Keep optional playwright import in base.py - Keep playwright availability check in test_browser_scraping endpoint - Maintains Railway deployment compatibility
- Keep optional playwright import and checks - Maintain browser scraper optional initialization - Preserve playwright availability checks in monitoring stats - All conflicts resolved, ready for merge
- Validate HTTP responses have content before returning - Validate browser scraping content before using - Add detailed logging for debugging deployment issues - Raise proper exceptions when content is empty or invalid - Helps diagnose why server returns 200 with empty content
- Add /debug/scraping endpoint to test HTTP, browser, and page requests - Shows content lengths, errors, and availability status - Helps diagnose why server returns empty responses - Better error messages in request_url_page and make_request_with_browser_fallback
- Validate page is not None after request_url_page() - Add exception handling in endpoints to catch and log errors - Add XPath error handling with detailed error messages - Warn when search results are empty (helps diagnose Railway issues) - Prevents silent failures that return 200 with empty data
- Log page HTML length and content validation - Log XPath extraction results - Warn when no results found - Helps diagnose why server returns empty results while local works
✨ Finishing touches
🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)
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🔧 Railway Deployment Fixes
This PR fixes issues with Railway deployment where endpoints return 200 OK but with empty results.
🐛 Problem
✅ Fixes
Better Error Handling
Enhanced Logging
Validation Improvements
Debug Endpoint
/debug/scrapingendpoint to test HTTP, browser, and page requests📊 Changes
app/services/base.py: Better validation and error handlingapp/services/clubs/search.py: Detailed logging for empty resultsapp/services/competitions/search.py: Validation in post_initapp/api/endpoints/clubs.py: Exception handling and warningsapp/api/endpoints/competitions.py: Exception handling and warningsapp/main.py: New debug endpoint🧪 Testing
After deployment, check Railway logs for:
Use
/debug/scrapingendpoint to diagnose issues.Ready for Review ✅