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1. Shard Calculation

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Response:

Calculated Shard: 84 (from laksa109)

2. Crawled Status Check

Query:

curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa084.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical, ml_categories_json AS ml_categories_json, ml_types_json AS ml_types_json, ml_intent_types_json AS ml_intent_types_json, meta_language AS meta_language, attrs_author AS attrs_author, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(attrs_publish_time), 0) AS attrs_publish_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(attrs_original_publish_time), 0) AS attrs_original_publish_time, ifNull(attrs_is_republished, 0) AS attrs_is_republished, ifNull(attrs_nr_words, 0) AS attrs_nr_words, ifNull(attrs_boilerpipe_nr_words, 0) AS attrs_boilerpipe_nr_words, ifNull(body_ext_links_number, 0) AS body_ext_links_number, ifNull(body_int_links_number, 0) AS body_int_links_number, ifNull(meta_nofollow, 0) AS meta_nofollow, ifNull(meta_noarchive, 0) AS meta_noarchive, ifNull(props_was_rendered, 0) AS props_was_rendered, ifNull(src_redirect, \'\') AS src_redirect, ifNull(download_time_msec, 0) AS download_time_msec, ifNull(download_ttfb_msec, 0) AS download_ttfb_msec, ifNull(download_size, 0) AS download_size FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/14/magazine/angiotensin-receptor-blockers-diarrhea.html\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/14/magazine/angiotensin-receptor-blockers-diarrhea.html\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

Response:

{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/14\/magazine\/angiotensin-receptor-blockers-diarrhea.html","crawl_time":1776247293,"first_indexed_time":1649927728,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,nytimes!www,\/2022\/04\/14\/magazine\/angiotensin-receptor-blockers-diarrhea.html s443","src_root_hash":"4566504020376537684","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"He Was Remarkably Healthy Until Chronic Diarrhea Nearly Killed Him - The New York Times","meta_descriptions":["After weeks of having to rush to the bathroom day and night, the 77-year-old had lost 25 pounds. What was wrong?"],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Advertisement\nSKIP ADVERTISEMENT\nDiagnosis\nAfter weeks of having to rush to the bathroom day and night, the 77-year-old had lost 25 pounds. What was wrong?\nCredit...\nPhoto illustration by Ina Jang\nPublished April 14, 2022\nUpdated April 22, 2022\n“My husband has been sick for a month and can barely walk and you’re going to\nsend him home\n?” The woman, usually reserved, was now shouting at the doctor in the Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital emergency room in Arlington, Texas. Her husband, 77 years old and until recently quite healthy, sat and watched his wife in amazed gratitude. “Don’t you have a GI specialist you can talk to?” she added. The doctor was silent for a moment, then nodded. “I’ll be back,” he said before disappearing into the crowded emergency room.\nOne month earlier, the man developed terrible and unrelenting diarrhea. Pepto-Bismol didn’t help; neither did Imodium. He gave up all dairy products. He ate more fiber. When after two weeks he still found himself getting up two or three times a night and hurrying to the bathroom just as many times during the day, he went to see his primary-care doctor, Samrath Sokhey. The doctor gave him a stronger antidiarrheal medication, Lomotil, and sent him to the lab for tests.\nWhen the tests were unrevealing, Sokhey saw him again. By then the patient looked sick; he was tall and had always been trim, but now he looked gaunt. The patient walked, cycled or lifted weights every day and had for years. But not these days, he reported. After weeks of this diarrhea, his only exercise was running to the bathroom. He had lost nearly 10 pounds. He always wanted a six-pack stomach, he joked, but he wasn’t sure it was worth this. Sokhey ordered tests to look for parasites and referred the patient to a GI specialist.\nSubscribe to The Times\nto read as many articles as you like.\nA correction was made on\nApril 22, 2022\n: \nAn earlier version of this article misstated the name of the institution where Dr. Tarek Sawas works. It is the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, not the University of Texas Southwestern.\nA version of this article appears in print on\nApril 17, 2022\n, Page 14 of the Sunday Magazine with the headline: He Was Remarkably Healthy, Until Chronic Diarrhea Nearly Killed Him\n.\nOrder Reprints\n|\nToday’s Paper\n|\nSubscribe\nRelated Content\nDiagnosis\nDr. Lisa Sanders on hard-to-solve medical mysteries.\nIllustration by Joel Burden\nPhoto illustration by Ina Jang\nPhoto illustration by Tomi Um\nMore in Magazine\nDevin Oktar Yalkin for The New York Times\nIllustration by Celyn Brazier\nStephen Voss for The New York Times\nIllustration by Tomi Um\nEditors’ Picks\nLibrary of Congress\nScott a Garfitt\/Invision, via Associated Press\nTrending in The Times\nTierney L. Cross\/The New York Times\nRyan Pfluger for The New York Times\nApple TV\nAlexi J. 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Cuba Center\nAdvertisement\nSKIP ADVERTISEMENT","attrs_markdown":"[Skip to content](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/14\/magazine\/angiotensin-receptor-blockers-diarrhea.html#site-content)[Skip to site index](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/14\/magazine\/angiotensin-receptor-blockers-diarrhea.html#site-index)\n\nSearch & Section Navigation\n\nSection Navigation\n\nSearch\n\n[Subscribe for \\$1\/week](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/subscription?campaignId=79FKF&source=bar1)[Log in](https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?response_type=cookie&client_id=vi&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Fsubscription%2Fonboarding-offer%3FcampaignId%3D7JFJX%26EXIT_URI%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.nytimes.com%252F2022%252F04%252F14%252Fmagazine%252Fangiotensin-receptor-blockers-diarrhea.html&asset=masthead)\n\nWednesday, April 15, 2026\n\n[Today’s Paper](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/section\/todayspaper)\n\n[Subscribe for \\$1\/week](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/subscription?campaignId=79FKF&source=bar1)\n\n[Magazine](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/section\/magazine)\\|He Was Remarkably Healthy Until Chronic Diarrhea Nearly Killed Him\n\nhttps:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/14\/magazine\/angiotensin-receptor-blockers-diarrhea.html\n\n- Share full article\n- 637\n\nAdvertisement\n\n[SKIP ADVERTISEMENT](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/14\/magazine\/angiotensin-receptor-blockers-diarrhea.html#after-top)\n\nSupported by\n\n[SKIP ADVERTISEMENT](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/14\/magazine\/angiotensin-receptor-blockers-diarrhea.html#after-sponsor)\n\nDiagnosis\n\n# He Was Remarkably Healthy Until Chronic Diarrhea Nearly Killed Him\nAfter weeks of having to rush to the bathroom day and night, the 77-year-old had lost 25 pounds. What was wrong?\n\n- Share full article\n- 637\n\n![](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/04\/17\/magazine\/17mag-studies_01\/17mag-studies_01-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale)\n\nCredit...Photo illustration by Ina Jang\n\nBy [Lisa Sanders, M.D.](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/lisa-sanders-md)\n\nPublished April 14, 2022Updated April 22, 2022\n\n[See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de búsqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google](https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?cs=0&hl=en&q=nytimes.com)\n\n“My husband has been sick for a month and can barely walk and you’re going to *send him home*?” The woman, usually reserved, was now shouting at the doctor in the Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital emergency room in Arlington, Texas. Her husband, 77 years old and until recently quite healthy, sat and watched his wife in amazed gratitude. “Don’t you have a GI specialist you can talk to?” she added. The doctor was silent for a moment, then nodded. “I’ll be back,” he said before disappearing into the crowded emergency room.\n\nOne month earlier, the man developed terrible and unrelenting diarrhea. Pepto-Bismol didn’t help; neither did Imodium. He gave up all dairy products. He ate more fiber. When after two weeks he still found himself getting up two or three times a night and hurrying to the bathroom just as many times during the day, he went to see his primary-care doctor, Samrath Sokhey. The doctor gave him a stronger antidiarrheal medication, Lomotil, and sent him to the lab for tests.\n\nWhen the tests were unrevealing, Sokhey saw him again. By then the patient looked sick; he was tall and had always been trim, but now he looked gaunt. The patient walked, cycled or lifted weights every day and had for years. But not these days, he reported. After weeks of this diarrhea, his only exercise was running to the bathroom. He had lost nearly 10 pounds. He always wanted a six-pack stomach, he joked, but he wasn’t sure it was worth this. Sokhey ordered tests to look for parasites and referred the patient to a GI specialist.\n\n[Subscribe to The Times](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/subscription?campaignId=8WXW7) to read as many articles as you like.\n\n**A correction was made on**\n\nApril 22, 2022\n\n:\n\nAn earlier version of this article misstated the name of the institution where Dr. Tarek Sawas works. It is the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, not the University of Texas Southwestern.\n\n***\nWhen we learn of a mistake, we acknowledge it with a correction. 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[Order Reprints](https:\/\/nytimes.wrightsmedia.com\/) \\| [Today’s Paper](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/section\/todayspaper) \\| [Subscribe](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/subscriptions\/Multiproduct\/lp8HYKU.html?campaignId=48JQY)\n\nRead 637 comments\n\n- Share full article\n- 637\n\n***\n## Diagnosis: More Medical Mysteries\n### In her column for The New York Times Magazine, Dr. Lisa Sanders shares the solutions to seemingly impossible medical cases.\n***\n- **Walking With a Shuffle:** The man’s changed gait [was the first sign of a serious problem](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/03\/well\/shuffle-normal-pressure-hydrocephalus.html).\n- **Yellowing of Her Eyes**: Something was terribly wrong with the young woman’s liver, [but doctors had no idea what](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/27\/well\/yellow-eyes-liver-autoimmune-disease.html).\n- **Unbearable Back Pain**: For a doctor and a mother of four, [there was almost no relief to be found](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/30\/well\/back-pain-pelvic-congestion-syndrome-nutcracker.html).\n- **A** **Pain In His Chest**: Doctors ruled out a heart attack, but the patient had a sense that [something was very wrong](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/09\/well\/chest-pain-reflux-esophageal-cancer.html).\n\n## Related Content\n### [Diagnosis](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/column\/diagnosis)\nDr. Lisa Sanders on hard-to-solve medical mysteries.\n\n- [He Suddenly Shuffled When He Walked. 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What was wrong? - Share full article - 637 ![](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/04/17/magazine/17mag-studies_01/17mag-studies_01-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale) Credit...Photo illustration by Ina Jang By [Lisa Sanders, M.D.](https://www.nytimes.com/by/lisa-sanders-md) Published April 14, 2022Updated April 22, 2022 [See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de búsqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google](https://www.google.com/preferences/source?cs=0&hl=en&q=nytimes.com) “My husband has been sick for a month and can barely walk and you’re going to *send him home*?” The woman, usually reserved, was now shouting at the doctor in the Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital emergency room in Arlington, Texas. Her husband, 77 years old and until recently quite healthy, sat and watched his wife in amazed gratitude. “Don’t you have a GI specialist you can talk to?” she added. The doctor was silent for a moment, then nodded. “I’ll be back,” he said before disappearing into the crowded emergency room. One month earlier, the man developed terrible and unrelenting diarrhea. Pepto-Bismol didn’t help; neither did Imodium. He gave up all dairy products. He ate more fiber. When after two weeks he still found himself getting up two or three times a night and hurrying to the bathroom just as many times during the day, he went to see his primary-care doctor, Samrath Sokhey. The doctor gave him a stronger antidiarrheal medication, Lomotil, and sent him to the lab for tests. When the tests were unrevealing, Sokhey saw him again. By then the patient looked sick; he was tall and had always been trim, but now he looked gaunt. The patient walked, cycled or lifted weights every day and had for years. But not these days, he reported. After weeks of this diarrhea, his only exercise was running to the bathroom. He had lost nearly 10 pounds. He always wanted a six-pack stomach, he joked, but he wasn’t sure it was worth this. Sokhey ordered tests to look for parasites and referred the patient to a GI specialist. [Subscribe to The Times](https://www.nytimes.com/subscription?campaignId=8WXW7) to read as many articles as you like. **A correction was made on** April 22, 2022 : An earlier version of this article misstated the name of the institution where Dr. Tarek Sawas works. It is the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, not the University of Texas Southwestern. *** When we learn of a mistake, we acknowledge it with a correction. 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Advertisement [SKIP ADVERTISEMENT](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/14/magazine/angiotensin-receptor-blockers-diarrhea.html#after-top) Diagnosis After weeks of having to rush to the bathroom day and night, the 77-year-old had lost 25 pounds. What was wrong? ![](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/04/17/magazine/17mag-studies_01/17mag-studies_01-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale) Credit...Photo illustration by Ina Jang Published April 14, 2022Updated April 22, 2022 “My husband has been sick for a month and can barely walk and you’re going to *send him home*?” The woman, usually reserved, was now shouting at the doctor in the Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital emergency room in Arlington, Texas. Her husband, 77 years old and until recently quite healthy, sat and watched his wife in amazed gratitude. “Don’t you have a GI specialist you can talk to?” she added. The doctor was silent for a moment, then nodded. “I’ll be back,” he said before disappearing into the crowded emergency room. One month earlier, the man developed terrible and unrelenting diarrhea. Pepto-Bismol didn’t help; neither did Imodium. He gave up all dairy products. He ate more fiber. When after two weeks he still found himself getting up two or three times a night and hurrying to the bathroom just as many times during the day, he went to see his primary-care doctor, Samrath Sokhey. The doctor gave him a stronger antidiarrheal medication, Lomotil, and sent him to the lab for tests. When the tests were unrevealing, Sokhey saw him again. By then the patient looked sick; he was tall and had always been trim, but now he looked gaunt. The patient walked, cycled or lifted weights every day and had for years. But not these days, he reported. After weeks of this diarrhea, his only exercise was running to the bathroom. He had lost nearly 10 pounds. 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