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Test run with another UA string for CSS scraper

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api: get-css page: docs page: get-css
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Description

See if there's fewer websites blocking the scraper if it looks more like a conventional browser.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:146.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/146.0 (compatible; Project Wallace CSS Scraper/1.2; +https://www.projectwallace.com/docs/css-scraper)

If moving on with this then also update the docs (version number + changelog).

TODO: come up with a list of domains that are blocked now and may start working after this change.

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Research direction

No files or tests are named. Start by locating the CSS scraper's user-agent configuration and identify domains currently blocking it; compare a run with the proposed UA. If the change proceeds, update the documentation's version and changelog, and record which previously blocked domains work afterward.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Domain
tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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