"The data collection process involved a daily ritual of manually visiting the Tagesschau website to capture links"
I don't know what to say... I'm amazed they kept this up so long, but this really should never have been the game plan.
I also had some data science hobby projects around covid; I got busy, lost interest after 6 months. But the scrapers keep running in the cloud, in case I get motivated again (anyone need structured data on eBay listings for laptops since 2020?), that's the beauty of automation for these sorts of things.
Do you just pay the bill for the resources indefinitely?