Scrape Extract API

A focused use case

Monitor an approved set of catalog pages for changes in published specifications. Define a collection interval and stop conditions before implementing a worker.

A practical workflow

Create an allowlist of source locations, review access instructions, bound concurrency, and keep a reviewed parser for each source family. Classify access denial separately from temporary unavailability and parser errors.

An example record contract

These fields illustrate the decisions to make before implementation. Adapt the names and required values to the receiving system; the table is not a promise of a live endpoint or a provider-specific response.

Limits worth keeping visible

Robots instructions are not access authorization. Respect published controls, agreements, privacy requirements, and content rights; do not evade login walls or deliberate denial.

Before increasing the workload

Run a small, authorized test set through the whole path, including the receiving application. Keep accepted, rejected, and incomplete outcomes distinguishable. A result should retain the context needed to explain its meaning after it leaves the extractor.

Continue with Website Extract API: From HTML to Useful Records for the full implementation discussion, and use the sample contract documentation to review the shape of a handoff.