Blog / Dated Content Crawler

URLs to start with.

Optional: Select relative start date by which to filter pages. Any post published before this date will be excluded. This is calculated relative to the time the crawler is run (eg: '2 weeks' would include posts from 2 weeks ago to now). Format in format 'X days' or 'X weeks' or 'X months' or 'X years'. If no time period is passed in, it will be treated as a number of seconds.

Optional: Select start date by which to filter pages. Any post published before this date will be excluded. Format in format YYYY-MM-DD

Optional: CSS Selector to identify where the date is located on the page. This can make the date filtering more accurate if we don't get it right on the first round. You should use this if there's multiple dates on the page.

Optional: If true, the crawler will include results where no date was detected on the page.

CSS Selector to wait for for page load. Useful when content on the page loads asynchronously. This is optional and in most cases won't be needed.

Optional: CSS Selector to identify elements to remove from the page. This is useful for removing elements that are not needed for the content. For example, you can remove the header and footer of the page.

Optional: How long the crawler will wait for a request to complete. Default is 60 seconds.

Optional: Used in conjunction with waitForSelector. How long the crawler will wait for the selector to appear. Default is 10 seconds.

Optional: If checked, the crawler will use the sitemap.xml file to find additional URLs to crawl.

Optional: If true, the crawler will include the document's 'last modified' date in the output.

Select proxies to be used by your crawler.

Select the crawler type to use. Adaptive crawlers run faster by automatically switching between raw http and browser requests. Firefox is less likely to be blocked by websites but may ocassionally fail in comparison to chrome. NOTE: You cannot use the adaptive crawler options with the 'filter by document last modified' option.

Optional: Select URLs by different kinds of patterns. This is similar to includeUrlGlobs but allows for simpler selection. If includeUrlGlobs is provided, this option is ignored. Subpath (default): Selects URLs that are under the path of the startUrls provided. All: Selects all URLs found. Same Hostname: Selects URLs that have the same hostname (does not include subdomains). Same Domain: Selects URLs that have the same domain (i.e includes subdomains). Same Origin: Selects URLs that have the same hostname and protocol (http/https).

Optional: An array of URL globs to include in the crawl. If not provided, the crawler will include only urls under the path of the startUrls provided. You can test globs on https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tools/glob.

Optional: An array of URL globs to exclude from the crawl in order to avoid crawling a particular page or set of pages.

Optional: The maximum number of pages to visit. This is useful for limiting the crawl to a specific number of pages to avoid overspending.