Independent herbal learning journal Tradition is context. Evidence is labelled. Risk comes first.
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Source intelligence

Good source material.
Clean research lineage.

The importer is deliberately split into discovery, research, drafting and publication. A successful crawl creates traceable research topics — never an automatically published copy.

The complete pipeline

Four states, four different jobs.

Keeping these layers separate prevents noisy archive pages, duplicate recipes and unreviewed health claims from leaking into the public journal.

01

Discover

Start from focused recipe, medicine-making and method collections. Only links that match the source profile are admitted to the queue.

02

Classify

Collections, articles, gated pages, promotions and irrelevant commercial pages are scored differently. Category pages discover links but never become editorial topics.

03

Fingerprint

Canonical, title, exact-content, recipe and MinHash signatures are calculated. Metadata-only sources do not retain copied full text.

04

Cluster

Exact and near-identical pages attach to one research topic while preserving every source URL, publisher and similarity decision.

05

Synthesize

An optional local model creates an original structured draft from the strongest source trails. The output is always saved as needs_review.

06

Review

A named reviewer checks recipe fidelity, evidence wording, interactions, red flags and source citations before approval or publication.

What each command actually creates

Crawl is research.
Publish is editorial.

This distinction is the reason a healthy crawl can produce topics while the public article count remains zero.

01
crawl.phpQueue + raw metadata + deduplicated research topics
→ 02
synthesize.phpOriginal structured drafts in needs_review
→ 03
review.phpNamed approval and controlled publication
→ 04
add-citation.phpClaim-level authority and research references
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Preconfigured specialist archives

Six distinct profiles

Each source has its own collection paths, article patterns, exclusion terms, minimum content threshold and article signals.

  • LearningHerbsPaginated remedies, recipes, plant profiles and practical beginner education.
  • Herbal RealitySeparate recipe and medicine-making collections with structured article paths.
  • Wintergreen BotanicalsCurated kitchen-apothecary hubs leading to dated practical articles.
  • Handmade ApothecaryMethod hub and preparation pages, including partial-content detection.
  • Chestnut School of Herbal MedicineRoot-level articles discovered only from accepted recipe and medicine-making cards; courses and testimonials are rejected.
  • Mountain Rose Herbs BlogBroad commercial recipe archive requiring both link-context and on-page herbal signals.
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Non-negotiable editorial rule

A source trail is not evidence by itself.

Recipe publishers can establish preparation history and technique. Clinical or regulatory claims require a separate authority layer, explicit citation and qualified review.

Read the evidence framework ↗