clean up: explicit utf-8 encoding, proper exception handling, remove dead code

- Add encoding="utf-8" to all file writes
- Catch requests.RequestException instead of bare except
- Use raise_for_status() to also retry on HTTP errors
- Use removeprefix/removesuffix instead of lstrip/rstrip
- Use makedirs(exist_ok=True)
- Remove unused common_suffix function and commonprefix import

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

crawler.py

@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ import re
 import json
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 from time import sleep
-from os.path import commonprefix
 from os import makedirs
 from git import Repo
 import argparse
@@ -167,16 +166,13 @@ def save_individuals(bios, out):
         first_letter = rep.name[0][0].upper()
         name_str = f"{rep.name[0]} {rep.name[1]}".replace(" ", "_")
         dir = f"{out}/Abgeordnete/{first_letter}"
-        try:
+        makedirs(dir, exist_ok=True)
-            makedirs(dir)
+        with open(f"{dir}/{name_str}.md", "w", encoding="utf-8") as rep_file:
-        except FileExistsError:
-            pass
-        with open(f"{dir}/{name_str}.md", "w") as rep_file:
             rep_file.write(str(rep))
 
 
 def save_raw(bios, out):
-    with open(f"{out}/raw.json", "w") as raw_file:
+    with open(f"{out}/raw.json", "w", encoding="utf-8") as raw_file:
         json.dump(
             [bio.to_dict() for bio in bios], raw_file, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False
         )
@@ -184,10 +180,7 @@ def save_raw(bios, out):
 
 def save_disclosures(bios, out):
     dir = f"{out}/Voep_Angaben"
-    try:
+    makedirs(dir, exist_ok=True)
-        makedirs(dir)
-    except FileExistsError:
-        pass
     bios_with_discl = [bio for bio in bios if bio.disclosures]
     alpha_str = ""
     for bio in sorted(bios_with_discl, key=lambda b: b.name):
@@ -195,7 +188,7 @@ def save_disclosures(bios, out):
         alpha_str += funcs_to_str(bio.disclosures)
         alpha_str += "\n"
 
-    with open(f"{dir}/Alphabetisch.md", "w") as alpha_file:
+    with open(f"{dir}/Alphabetisch.md", "w", encoding="utf-8") as alpha_file:
         alpha_file.write(alpha_str.strip())
 
     party_str = ""
@@ -206,7 +199,7 @@ def save_disclosures(bios, out):
             party_str += funcs_to_str(bio.disclosures)
             party_str += "\n"
 
-    with open(f"{dir}/Nach_Partei.md", "w") as party_file:
+    with open(f"{dir}/Nach_Partei.md", "w", encoding="utf-8") as party_file:
         party_file.write(party_str.strip())
 
 
@@ -293,9 +286,11 @@ def get_bio(url, name, sleep_for):
 def request_handle_rate_limit(url):
     for _ in range(5):
         try:
-            return requests.get(url)
+            response = requests.get(url)
-        except:
+            response.raise_for_status()
-            print("Rate limit! waiting 5min")
+            return response
+        except requests.RequestException:
+            print("Request failed! waiting 5min")
             sleep(300)
     return requests.get(url)
 
@@ -378,7 +373,7 @@ def parse_vote(page):
 def get_ajax(elem):
     if not elem:
         return None
-    inner = elem.get("x-data").lstrip("dynamicTemplateOutput(").rstrip(")")
+    inner = elem.get("x-data").removeprefix("dynamicTemplateOutput(").removesuffix(")")
     data = json.loads(inner)
     url = BUNDESTAG_BASE_URL + data["endpoint"]
     filters = data["filters"]
@@ -391,9 +386,5 @@ def get_ajax(elem):
     return response
 
 
-def common_suffix(strings):
-    return commonprefix([s[::-1] for s in strings])[::-1]
-
-
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     main()