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regenworld.net → METIS camp sync

regenworld.net hosts The Gathering US (Camp Navarro, California, October 2026), which METIS holds as the Local Gathering 2026 USA California (id 226). regenworld_sync.py reads the site and keeps that gathering and its camps in METIS up to date.

regenworld.net /gather/ + /camps/ → plan (site vs METIS) → dry run or --apply

The site is the source of truth for the fields the script owns. Every run overwrites them.

What it syncs

  • Gathering (226): start_date and end_date from the /gather/ hero ("OCT 15 – 18, 2026"), and tickets (the /gather/ page itself). Place, tagline and description are left to people in METIS: the site's versions are less detailed than METIS's.
  • Camps: each camp block on /camps/ (an Elementor tabs widget: About, Schedule, Partners) becomes a camp holon under 226:
  • New camps are created with POST /camps on the pt-2026-camps journey, step Selling. They get the About text as their description, the logo uploaded at full size, a source link and, where the site embeds one, a youtube link.
  • Existing camps get their name and description overwritten from the site. The logo is re-uploaded only when the site's image URL changes (it's kept in the logo_source link). Links someone added by hand in METIS are kept.
  • Camps that leave the site are moved to the Cancelled step, which isn't public, so they drop off the public site and keep their history. If one comes back, it moves back to Selling.
  • Experiences: not yet. Every camp's schedule tab still says "Coming Soon". When one has real content the script warns, and the parser gets written against the real format.

How camps are matched

Each camp is found in METIS by its source link (https://regenworld.net/camps/#<key>, looked up with GET /holons?link=…&link_key=source), so re-runs update rather than duplicate.

Camp names appear only inside the logo images on the site, and the text headings beside them are copy-pasted (three say "CAMP AUDAX SCHEDULE"). So camps.json names each camp by the data-id of its Elementor tabs widget:

"443adb4": {"name": "Camp Kaizen", "key": "camp-kaizen"}

A camp block the file doesn't know is reported as UNMAPPED, with its logo and text, and nothing is written for it. While any camp is unmapped, the script also refuses to cancel anything: an unmapped block may be a known camp whose widget was rebuilt.

Hidden camps

A camp block whose container carries elementor-hidden-desktop, -tablet and -mobile is on the page but shown to nobody. It's treated as absent. On 29 Sep 2026 that was AUREA and NERA Alliance Camp, which Golden Era Camp's text says it brings together.

Exceptions: camps METIS owns

camps.json has an exceptions list of camp keys, each with a reason. The script never creates, updates, re-logos, cancels or restores an excepted camp. Camp Audax (1708) is on it: its description, logo and links are written in METIS from audax.earth, not taken from regenworld.

Running it

Needs Python 3.9+ (standard library only) and the repo-root .env that /metis-setup creates.

python3 automation/regenworld-sync/regenworld_sync.py            # dry run: print the plan, write nothing
python3 automation/regenworld-sync/regenworld_sync.py --apply    # carry the plan out
python3 automation/regenworld-sync/regenworld_sync.py --html-dir DIR   # parse saved gather.html/camps.html

A dry run prints the excepted camps, warnings (hidden, unmapped, schedules with content) and each planned change. A run with nothing to do prints in sync — nothing to do. Always read the dry run before --apply.

It fetches two pages from regenworld.net, 4 seconds apart.

Gotchas it handles

  • METIS autolinks word.Word. The site's CircleUp text has "world.In a world" (its paragraph is repeated with no space), and METIS turned it into a link to http://world.In. The parser puts a space after a sentence that runs straight into the next.
  • Descriptions are compared as text, so markup METIS adds on save isn't seen as a change.
  • links is a full replace on update, so the script merges its keys into the existing links instead of sending its own alone.
  • A logo's logo_source is recorded only after the upload succeeds, so a failed upload is retried on the next run.

Tests

cd automation/regenworld-sync && python3 -m unittest discover -s tests