External Webpage Scraping

Hello All, I have a question: If I scrape a website and it contains links to other external websites, will those linked pages also be scraped automatically?"
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micah.stairs
micah.stairs5mo ago
Great question! It sounds like you might be referring to the Crawl endpoint, not the Scrape endpoint. Scrape just scrapes a single page. By default, it won't crawl onto other websites, however, you can control this with allowExternalLinks (defaults to false) . See https://docs.firecrawl.dev/api-reference/endpoint/crawl-post#body-allow-external-links.

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