# V3.8 Legacy-Proven Scraper Baseline Restore

The core link scraper now restores the fetch/discovery/article-extraction behavior from the previously working News360 project.

Pipeline:
legacy fetch_url -> legacy link discovery -> legacy article extraction -> current MySQL save -> current category/location classification -> current diagnostics/retry logging.

Advanced scraper helpers remain available for admin testing/diagnostics, but the automatic/manual core collection no longer depends on advanced listing discovery.