URGENT Scraper is no longer validating products!

Customers are reporting that they can no longer place orders. After investigating, we see that the scraper that validates products has been failing to validate for days!!

We are getting this error in the dev logs:

Impossible to validate items for order:

Please make sure the URL is valid, we suggest you take a look at our Security documentation http://docs.snipcart.com/getting-started/security) for more information.

Has been working with no issue for years, now the bot not only fails to validate existing products, but fails to validate any new ones as well.

Of course it happens over a 3-day weekend.

Abandoned carts are piling up!

Is it this? Resolving Checkout Validation Issues Due to Netlify Prerendering

I’m afraid not. This seems to be an unrelated issue.