Hardware Price Index — daily-refreshed CPU and GPU price data. Returns two data layers: 1. hardware_prices — retail p

Hardware Price Index — daily-refreshed CPU and GPU price data. Returns two data layers: 1. hardware_prices — retail prices scraped from PCPartPicker, bucketed by tier (budget / mid-range / high-end). Null if scraping is unavailable. 2. market_index — live semiconductor stock prices (NVDA, AMD, INTC) as a market-sentiment proxy. Always available via yfinance. HOW TO CALL: POST /get_hardware_prices?category=gpu PARAMETERS: category — 'cpu', 'gpu', or 'all' (returns both) CPU tier thresholds: budget <$150 | mid $150–$350 | high >$350 GPU tier thresholds: budget <$300 | mid $300–$600 | high >$600 RESPONSE: { date, category, fetched_at, cached, market_index, hardware_prices } Data is cached for 24 hours (daily refresh). PRICING: $0.03 per call.