I automated my site's indexing checks this month and hit a wall that surprised me. The Search Console API will inspect URLs, report coverage state and resubmit sitemaps. The separate Indexing API only accepts job postings and livestream pages. The one thing everyone actually wants, the Request Indexing button, has no API at all.
So my daily job does everything the API allows, inspects up to 160 URLs, resubmits the sitemap, then writes a shortlist of URLs stuck in Discovered or Crawled but not indexed. The last step is me clicking Request Indexing by hand off that list.
Has anyone found a legitimate way around this, or is the manual click just the toll Google charges?
Solo builder here, using Cursor + Claude Code as basically my whole engineering team. Six months in I still don't have a good instinct for this: some days I let it just run with a whole feature and barely glance at the diff, other days I'm rereading every line like it's a junior dev's first PR.
Right now my rough rule is billing/auth code gets the paranoid review, UI and analytics panels get the "looks fine, ship it" treatment. But that's just a gut feeling, not a real system.
Anyone here have an actual framework for this, or is everyone just winging it based on vibes and how burned they've been before?
