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The content watch keeps fetching nothing

#Four causes

  1. Selector rot: after a redesign the old CSS/XPath no longer matches. Run Test rule once and look at what comes back.
  2. Target refuses fetches: the site blocks crawlers and returns a verification page or empty response. Change the UA, route via your own node/proxy — see Advanced: fetch channels.
  3. JS-rendered: the content is loaded by JS and absent from the initial HTML. Use the API JSON method to read the data API directly.
  4. Fetched but wrong: the selector matched a different element. The test shows the extracted text — fix the rule against that.

#Suggestions

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