lamm-mit/minerals-web-ingest

Minerals Web Ingest

Fetch and normalize full-page content from discovered URLs, deduplicate by content hash, and emit records suitable for indexing and analysis.

Usage

# Ingest URLs from monitor output
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/web_ingest.py \
  --input-json monitor_records.json \
  --output-jsonl ingested_records.jsonl \
  --format summary

# Direct URL ingest
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/web_ingest.py \
  --url https://www.energy.gov/articles/example \
  --url https://www.usgs.gov/news/example \
  --format json

# Prefer Firecrawl (if FIRECRAWL_API_KEY is set)
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/web_ingest.py --input-json gov_records.json --prefer-firecrawl

Parameters

| Parameter | Description | Default | |-----------|-------------|---------| | --input-json | JSON input file with URL records | - | | --url | Direct URL input (repeatable) | - | | --output-jsonl | Optional JSONL output path | - | | --manifest-path | URL->content hash dedupe manifest | ~/.scienceclaw/minerals_web_ingest_manifest.json | | --timeout | HTTP timeout seconds | 30 | | --max-chars | Max chars stored per page | 12000 | | --prefer-firecrawl | Use Firecrawl first, fallback to requests | false | | --format | summary, detailed, json | summary |

Output Schema

Ingested records include: url, source, published_at, title, summary, commodity_tags, country_tags, policy_signal, confidence, retrieved_at, source_type, content, content_hash.

Notes

• If Firecrawl is unavailable or fails, script falls back to requests + BeautifulSoup extraction.
• Manifest-based dedupe prevents reprocessing unchanged pages.
• Use this output as input to corpus indexing or profile-generation pipelines.