Comics from gocomics not working

[Xenovail]

Describe the bug
Comics from gocomics do not work. Using / command to get a comic for the day or random comic produces an error and channels that normally give the daily comic have stated:
"No comic found for '(gocomics comics)'!
We could not find a comic at this time 🤔....
Try another time!"

Requesting the comic for today, any day, or a random day using / comics produces the following error:
CommandInvokeError: Command '(any gocomics comic)' raised an exception: ConnectionTimeoutError: Connection timeout to host https://www.gocomics.com/(url of whatever comic I searched for)

To Reproduce
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1. Go to Discord
2. Insert command '/garfield, /heathcliff, /calvin_and_hobbes, etc for any day either today or random'
3. See error

Expected behavior
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Requested comics should show up and daily comics should be displayed normally.

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[BBArikL]

Yea its timing out, not sure if Gocomics is trying to crack down or the machine is suffering problems... Other sites are fine. I do not think its a IP block but it might be a behavioral blocking.

[BBArikL]

Ah, they implemented bunny shield (https://bunny.net/shield/) for behavioral blocking. Interesting choice.

[BBArikL]

The crackdown is so intense that even embeds into other sites is broken. Either this bot alone is creating too much pressure / too much loss for them to implement so many measures, or the rest of the AI crawling of the internet means this bot gets caught in the blocking. Probably the latter but the first option would be kinda funny. I am not sure how do I want to approach this. I have enough historical data to know when new comics are actually released (for most of them) and create "fake releases" (ie, add an embed with a link to go check out the comic on the site), but they could change it like when they updated their website. If I cant find anything else before the end of next week, this will be how I manage this issue. I am going to create a sub-issue about maybe trying to bypass Bunny Shield WAF (https://www.cloudflare.com/en-ca/learning/ddos/glossary/web-application-firewall-waf/) either by using a better headless browser, doing way harder caching (only try to fetch the image once per day and using the image for the full day) and/or using a full automated browser (this last one is going to be pretty heavy to run...).

[BBArikL]

My goal is simply to remind people that great comics exist and to go read them every day. It is very sad to see the internet being so hard to browse every passing day. I just want to read the comics...

[BBArikL]

I just released a new version with the temporary solution. I know this is not a complete resolution and this is why I will leave this issue open until I find a doable solution for a longterm solution.