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+"""Classify a Walmart start URL and extract its identifiers.
+
+Covers the shapes accepted on input: product pages (``/ip/{slug}/{id}`` or
+``/ip/{id}``), search (``/search?q=``), category (``/cp/{slug}/{id}``), and
+browse (``/browse/...``) pages. Category and browse render the same
+``searchResult`` JSON as search, so they share the ``listing`` kind and parser.
+
+Pure, no I/O. ``item_id`` is Walmart's ``usItemId`` — the numeric id the review
+page and detail page are both keyed on.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import re
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from typing import Literal
+from urllib.parse import parse_qs, urlparse
+
+ResolvedKind = Literal["product", "listing"]
+
+# usItemId: the trailing numeric segment of an /ip/ or /reviews/product/ path,
+# or a bare numeric id passed directly.
+_ITEM_ID_PATH_RE = re.compile(r"/(?:ip|reviews/product)/(?:[^/?#]+/)*(\d{4,})")
+_BARE_ID_RE = re.compile(r"^\d{4,}$")
+
+_LISTING_QUERY_KEYS = ("q", "cat_id", "browse")
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True)
+class ResolvedUrl:
+    kind: ResolvedKind
+    url: str
+    item_id: str | None = None
+    domain: str | None = None
+
+
+def extract_item_id(url: str) -> str | None:
+    """Pull the numeric ``usItemId`` out of a product/review URL or bare id."""
+    candidate = url.strip()
+    if _BARE_ID_RE.match(candidate):
+        return candidate
+    match = _ITEM_ID_PATH_RE.search(candidate)
+    return match.group(1) if match else None
+
+
+def resolve_url(url: str) -> ResolvedUrl | None:
+    """Classify a Walmart start URL into a scrape job, or ``None`` if unrecognized.
+
+    A bare numeric id resolves to a product (its ``usItemId``) so callers can
+    pass item ids directly without constructing a full URL.
+    """
+    if _BARE_ID_RE.match(url.strip()):
+        return ResolvedUrl("product", url.strip(), item_id=url.strip())
+
+    parsed = urlparse(url)
+    host = (parsed.hostname or "").lower()
+    path = parsed.path or ""
+
+    if "walmart." not in host:
+        return None
+
+    if path.startswith("/ip/"):
+        return ResolvedUrl("product", url, item_id=extract_item_id(path), domain=host)
+
+    query = parse_qs(parsed.query)
+    is_listing = (
+        path.startswith("/search")
+        or path.startswith("/cp/")
+        or path.startswith("/browse/")
+        or any(key in query for key in _LISTING_QUERY_KEYS)
+    )
+    if is_listing:
+        return ResolvedUrl("listing", url, domain=host)
+
+    return None