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Diffbot Start Crawl

Initiates a Diffbot crawl job that spiders a website starting from seed URLs and processes discovered pages with a specified Extract API. The crawler follows links within the domain, collects structured data (articles, products, etc.), and stores results for download. Use this t…

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Inputs

  • namestring
    Required
    Unique identifier for the crawl job. Used to manage and retrieve the crawl.
  • seedsarray
    Required
    List of seed URLs where crawling will begin. URLs will be URL-encoded automatically.
  • apiUrlstring
    Required
    Full Diffbot Extract API endpoint URL to process crawled pages. Examples: 'https://api.diffbot.com/v3/article' for articles, 'https://api.diffbot.com/v3/product' for products, 'https://api.diffbot.com/v3/analyze' for automatic type detection.
  • repeatnumber
    Number of days between automatic crawl repeats. Use 7.0 for weekly, 1.0 for daily. Omit for one-time crawl.
  • crawlDelaynumber
    Delay in seconds between requests to the same IP address. Default is 0.25 seconds.
  • maxToCrawlinteger
    Maximum number of pages to crawl/spider. Default is 100,000. Use -1 for unlimited.
  • obeyRobotsinteger
    Whether to respect robots.txt directives. 1 = obey (default), 0 = ignore.
  • notifyEmailstring
    Email address to notify when the crawl completes.
  • maxToProcessinteger
    Maximum number of pages to process with the Extract API. Default is 100,000. Use -1 for unlimited.
  • customHeadersobject
    Custom HTTP headers to include in crawl requests (e.g., {'User-Agent': 'MyBot/1.0'}).
  • notifyWebhookstring
    Webhook URL to POST to when the crawl completes.

Observable output

  • data
    Required
    Data from the action execution
  • errorstring
    Error if any occurred during the execution of the action
  • successfulboolean
    Required
    Whether or not the action execution was successful or not

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