Pattern 1 (href→aria-label) finds 127 navigation links on GBICS BigCommerce
pages — none contain GBP prices. Pattern 2 (aria-label→href) correctly
finds 16-30 product links per category page with £XX.XX prices in aria-labels.
The fallback from P1 to P2 now triggers when P1 finds results but none
contain '£', rather than only when P1 finds 0 total results.
Previous logic fired an alert whenever prices_6h=0, even when prices
were genuinely stable (content hash dedup prevents duplicate inserts).
This caused Flexoptix, ATGBICS and others to trigger alerts every 3h
despite their scrapers running successfully.
New logic:
🔴 CRITICAL: last price > 7 days (genuine failure)
🟡 WARNING: last price 48h–7 days (possibly stale)
✅ STABLE: last price ≤48h, 0 new (prices unchanged, scraper OK)
Also shows pg-boss job state/time alongside each vendor for faster
root-cause diagnosis. Trimmed EXPECTED_VENDORS to vendors with actual
scraper implementations (removed never-scraped placeholders).
After PlaywrightCrawler.run() resolves, Crawlee's internal task loop
schedules one final _isTaskReadyFunction call that tries to read a
request queue .json file already cleaned up during processing. This
ENOENT fires as an unhandledRejection and calls process.exit(1),
aborting Phase 2 before prices are written to the database.
Added a targeted unhandledRejection handler in the require.main block
that swallows ENOENT errors from request_queues paths (benign Crawlee
cleanup race) while re-raising all other rejections.
Adds /tmp/tip-fs-scraper.lock PID file to prevent launchd from running
a second instance while the previous one is still active (e.g. 2am
schedule fires, runs past 10am when launchd fires again). Without this,
concurrent instances caused rmSync(storage-fs-phase1) in one instance
to delete the Crawlee storage dir while the other was still using it,
resulting in ENOENT crashes.
- Add makeCrawleeConfig isolation to CheerioCrawler instances
- Switch from named persistent RequestQueue to ephemeral null queues:
named queues retain 'handled' state and skip all URLs on re-runs,
causing 0 observations on every run after the first.
- Applies to both enrichSwitchFromEbay and enrichTransceiversFromEbay.
- Add utils/crawlee-config.ts: makeCrawleeConfig(name) returns a
Crawlee Configuration with isolated localDataDirectory per scraper.
Uses storageClientOptions (not global CRAWLEE_STORAGE_DIR) so
concurrent pg-boss workers in the same process don't race on
the shared env var.
- Apply makeCrawleeConfig to all 6 Crawlee-based scrapers:
optcore (PlaywrightCrawler), atgbics (PlaywrightCrawler),
community-issues (CheerioCrawler + RequestQueue),
edgecore (CheerioCrawler), ufispace (CheerioCrawler),
market-intelligence (CheerioCrawler).
- scheduler.ts: add withIsolatedStorage for optcore and market-intel
workers (was missing, caused storage-fs path bleed from fs scraper).
- ebay-enricher.ts: fix vendor type 'marketplace' -> 'reseller' to
satisfy vendors_type_check constraint
['manufacturer','distributor','oem','reseller','compatible'].
FiberMall:
- Correct /store-XXXXX-name.htm category URLs (was /c/xxx/ → HTTP 404)
- Parser: split on new_proList_mainListLi, price from data-price on
currency_price span — fix 0.00 false-match from SKU variant items
- Also scrape SKU brand variant links from .sku_item divs
- Result: 3,410 prices now in DB (was 0)
Flexoptix:
- Fix extractPrice regex for EUR thousand-separator format
(2,921.60 EUR was parsed as 2 EUR)
- Add OSFP224 / 1.6T search queries (4 new, form factor was missing)
- Fix O.138HG2.C.05 stale price 3009.60→2921.60 EUR
Schema: competitor_verified + competitor_verified_at columns
added via ALTER TABLE (were referenced in code but missing in DB)
CHANGELOG: added 6 entries for 2026-04-12
- New scrapers: fibermall.ts (WooCommerce), vcelink.ts (Shopify), opticsbay.ts (WooCommerce)
- QSFPTEK rewritten to use /mall/commodity/list API (old OpenCart /c/*.html paths gone 404)
- New: attribute-based filtering by data rate (1G/10G/25G/40G/100G/200G/400G/800G)
- Scrapes HTML fragments, extracts US$ prices and product URLs
- scheduler.ts: +3 queues/schedules/workers (fibermall, vcelink, opticsbay) → 61 total workers
- index-pi.ts: Pi fleet picks up all 3 new scrapers
Crawlee's SessionPool throws 'Could not find SDK_SESSION_POOL_STATE.json'
when initializing against a freshly-created isolated storage dir.
Setting CRAWLEE_PURGE_ON_START=1 tells Crawlee to start fresh instead
of trying to load non-existent session state — fixes FS.com and ATGBICS
crashes at the start of every 2h cycle after the dirs were cleaned up.
ProLabs uses B2B quote model - prices require reseller account and are
not shown publicly (schema.org always shows price=0.00). Fighting
CloudFront WAF with Firefox automation is pointless.
New approach:
- Sitemap-driven: downloads all 14 sitemaps to collect product URLs
- fetch-based: curl-compatible HTTP requests bypass CloudFront TLS detection
- catalog-only: writes part numbers + specs to transceivers table
- Rate-limited: 300ms between requests (~3 req/sec)
- No proxy needed: Pi nodes no longer consumed for ProLabs
Replace hard-coded purple/green colors with theme CSS variables.
Dark code blocks (#1e1e1e bg), orange accent for active borders/badges,
dark green for status text, amber for warnings — all readable on white.
Remove boss.work() registrations for lightweight fetch/cheerio scrapers
from Erik's scheduler. Pis are now the SOLE consumers of these queues:
fluxlight, gbics, optcore, champion-one, sfpcables, blueoptics, fiber24,
tscom, skylane, ascentoptics, gaotek, smartoptics, hubersuhner, news,
market-intel.
Shows active model (fo-blog-v3-qwen7b / claude-sonnet-4-6 / qwen2.5:14b),
live status from /api/blog/llm/status, ratings, config instructions,
and highlights which model is currently active.
Routes requests through CT130/131/132 proxy pool (192.168.178.77/76/74:1080)
when PROXY_URLS env var is set. Uses ProxyConfiguration from crawlee for
PlaywrightCrawler scrapers and socks-proxy-agent for fetch-based scrapers.
- Reset details_verified=false for 298 products where reach_label is empty (DB migration)
- Runtime check in dashboard: dVer requires non-empty reach_label regardless of DB flag
- comparable price query: treat reach_meters=0 same as NULL so 800G OSFP products
find FS.com equivalent prices (was blocked by reach_meters=0 != NULL shortcircuit)
- Product image area now fully clickable with vendor link overlay when product_page_url exists
- Clear wrong image for O.Czz8HG.z.R (was showing unrelated OSFP product image)
