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Peter Foster 215078ce1d feat: complete cleanup setup and dashboard verification

- Set up daily cron job (3am UTC) for tender URL validation
- Verified dashboard filtering (API already filters status=open)
- Completed full cleanup: 97 valid tenders, 529 removed (84% removal rate)
- Add comprehensive setup documentation in CLEANUP_SETUP.md
- Updated cleanup script to check ALL open tenders (removed 100 limit)

2026-02-15 14:23:18 +00:00

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TenderRadar Cleanup - Setup Complete

Date: 2026-02-15 14:17 GMT

Summary

✅ Daily cleanup job configured
✅ Dashboard filtering verified
✅ Initial cleanup completed

Results

Database Status (After Full Cleanup)

Total tenders: 626
Open (valid URLs): 97 (~16%)
Closed (removed): 529 (~84%)

Removal rate: 84% of scraped tenders were already removed from source websites!

Current Valid Tenders

The dashboard will show 97 tenders with working Apply Now buttons, distributed across:

TED EU: 11 ✅
Contracts Finder: ~40-50 (many removed early)
Find Tender: Active tenders
eTendersNI: 11 ✅
PCS Scotland: 10 ✅
Sell2Wales: 10 ✅

Configuration

1. Daily Cron Job ✅

0 3 * * * cd /home/peter/tenderpilot && /usr/bin/node cleanup-invalid-tenders.mjs >> logs/cleanup.log 2>&1

What it does:

Runs daily at 3am UTC
Checks all "open" tender URLs
Marks removed tenders as "closed"
Keeps database in sync with source websites
Logs to /home/peter/tenderpilot/logs/cleanup.log

2. Dashboard Filtering ✅

API endpoint: /api/tenders (in server.js)

Automatic filtering:

WHERE status = 'open' 
AND (deadline IS NULL OR deadline > NOW())

Result: Dashboard shows only 97 tenders with valid, working URLs

No changes needed - API already filters correctly!

Cron Schedule Summary

All TenderRadar cron jobs on VPS:

0 */4 * * *    - Contracts Finder scraper (every 4 hours)
10 */4 * * *   - Find Tender scraper (every 4 hours)
20 */4 * * *   - PCS Scotland scraper (every 4 hours)
30 */4 * * *   - Sell2Wales scraper (every 4 hours)
20 5 * * *     - TED EU scraper (daily at 05:20)
30 5 * * *     - eTendersNI scraper (daily at 05:30)
0 7 * * *      - Email digest (daily at 7am)
0 3 * * *      - Cleanup invalid tenders (NEW - daily at 3am)

Log Files

Cleanup logs: /home/peter/tenderpilot/logs/cleanup.log
Scraper logs: /home/peter/tenderpilot/scraper.log
Manual cleanup runs: /home/peter/tenderpilot/cleanup-full-*.log

Monitoring

Check cleanup effectiveness:

# View recent cleanup log
tail -50 ~/tenderpilot/logs/cleanup.log

# Check current database status
psql tenderpilot -c "SELECT status, COUNT(*) FROM tenders GROUP BY status;"

# See what dashboard shows
psql tenderpilot -c "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM tenders WHERE status='open' AND (deadline IS NULL OR deadline > NOW());"

Next Steps (Optional)

✅ Daily cleanup job - DONE
✅ Dashboard filtering - VERIFIED WORKING
⏳ Reduce scrape interval from 4 hours to 1 hour (captures more fast-closing tenders)
⏳ Add more notice types to scrapers (not just stage=tender)
⏳ Monitor cleanup.log for removal rate patterns

Files Created

/home/peter/tenderpilot/cleanup-invalid-tenders.mjs - Cleanup script
/home/peter/tenderpilot/TENDER_CLEANUP_SUMMARY.md - Problem analysis
/home/peter/tenderpilot/CLEANUP_SETUP.md - This setup documentation

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