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Website Content Crawler

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Crawl websites and extract text content to feed AI models, LLM applications, vector databases, or RAG pipelines. The Actor supports rich formatting using Markdown, cleans the HTML, downloads files, and integrates well with 🦜🔗 LangChain, LlamaIndex, and the wider LLM ecosystem.

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Crawler doesn't follow any links in Start URL

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nhanna opened this issue

I am trying to get Website Content Crawler running with "https://portfoliocharts.com/commentary-all/" as the Start URL - all other settings are default. The crawler simply visits that page and doesn't follow any of the links on it even though it's a very straightforward page with a clear

links to follow. I don't understand how this very basic use case isn't functioning.

nhanna

This is the task: https://console.apify.com/view/runs/mcmoAPYoVLxnNIVYs

Jakub Kopecký (jakub.kopecky)

Hi, thanks for using the Website Content Crawler.

The issue here is that the URLs of the blog posts are not in the same path as your Start URL, which means they weren't matching and thus weren't queued for crawling. You can resolve this by adding a glob pattern in includeUrlGlobs under "Crawler settings" -> "Include URLs (globs)".

For example, in this run, I added the glob https://portfoliocharts.com/[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]/[0-9][0-9]/[0-9][0-9]/* to match the blog post URLs, and now the pages are being crawled: https://console.apify.com/view/runs/sGoTobrZYg08vFYxc

Please try to run the Actor again and let me know if you encounter any issues.

Jakub Kopecky

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Created in Mar 2023
Modified 14 days ago

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