Measure MercadoLibre Chile saturation: local vs imported listings
A normal MercadoLibre Chile search page can mix local sellers with cross-border listings. For product validation, only local Chile stock should count as local competition.
Recommended actor
Use Atomic Actor 1 for saturation: it coordinates child workers, avoids duplicate mission work, and reports cost/block telemetry.
Input
{
"atomicMode": "orchestrator",
"searchQueries": ["monitor de bebe", "propane gauge"],
"searchFilterMode": "envio_local",
"maxItems": 120,
"maxItemsPerQuery": 60,
"maxPagesPerQuery": 1,
"useMissionQueue": true,
"missionDedupeMode": "mission",
"resumeMission": true,
"maxConcurrentChildRuns": 4,
"proxyConfiguration": {
"useApifyProxy": true,
"apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
"apifyProxyCountry": "CL"
}
}
What to measure
- Number of rows with `local_stock_status` local.
- Number of rows with `local_stock_status` import_only.
- Number of rows with unknown evidence.
- `search_total_results` and `search_local_filter_total_results` when exposed by MercadoLibre.
- Price distribution among local rows only.
Failure rule
If scraping is blocked or visibility is unknown, preserve unknown competition. Do not turn missing data into a no-competition signal.