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- Rename section to "Strongly Recommended: Enable AI Features"
- Document AI Extraction (fallback) and AI Verification separately
- Add Ollama as a provider option throughout
- Add AI price verification to features list

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## Strongly Recommended: Enable AI Extraction
## Strongly Recommended: Enable AI Features
While PriceGhost includes multiple scraping strategies (JSON-LD, meta tags, CSS selectors, pattern matching, and headless browser), **we highly recommend enabling AI-powered extraction** for the best results.
While PriceGhost includes multiple scraping strategies (JSON-LD, meta tags, CSS selectors, pattern matching, and headless browser), **we highly recommend enabling AI-powered features** for the best results.
Modern e-commerce sites use increasingly complex layouts, dynamic pricing, and anti-scraping measures. AI extraction serves as an intelligent fallback that can understand page context and reliably extract prices even from difficult sites.
Modern e-commerce sites use increasingly complex layouts, dynamic pricing, and anti-scraping measures. AI can understand page context and reliably extract prices even from difficult sites.
### AI Extraction (Fallback)
When standard scraping fails to find a price, AI extraction kicks in as a fallback.
### AI Verification (Recommended)
Verifies every scraped price to ensure accuracy. This catches issues like accidentally scraping a "savings" amount ($189.99 off) instead of the actual product price ($675.59).
**To enable:**
1. Get an API key from [Anthropic](https://console.anthropic.com) (Claude) or [OpenAI](https://platform.openai.com)
1. Get an API key from [Anthropic](https://console.anthropic.com) (Claude), [OpenAI](https://platform.openai.com), or install [Ollama](https://ollama.ai) locally (free)
2. Go to Settings > AI Extraction
3. Enable AI extraction and enter your key
4. That's it! AI will automatically kick in when standard scraping fails
3. Enable **AI Extraction** (fallback) and/or **AI Verification** (recommended)
4. Select your provider and enter your API key (or Ollama URL)
The cost is minimal (fractions of a cent per extraction) and dramatically improves success rates.
The cost is minimal (fractions of a cent per API call with Claude Haiku/GPT-4o-mini). Ollama is completely free but requires local compute.
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### Price Tracking
- **Universal scraping** - Works with virtually any e-commerce website
- **Smart price detection** - Uses multiple strategies: JSON-LD structured data, meta tags, CSS selectors, and pattern matching
- **AI-powered fallback** - Optional Claude (Anthropic) or GPT (OpenAI) integration for difficult-to-scrape sites
- **AI-powered fallback** - Optional Claude, GPT, or Ollama (local) integration for difficult-to-scrape sites
- **AI price verification** - Verify scraped prices with AI to catch extraction errors (e.g., scraping savings amounts instead of actual prices)
- **Headless browser support** - Puppeteer with stealth mode for JavaScript-rendered pages
- **Price history charts** - Interactive visualization with customizable date ranges (7d, 30d, 90d, all time)
- **7-day sparklines** - Quick price trend overview on the dashboard