Does a file download count as a separate request?

Posted over 5 years ago by nathanwailes

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If I have a scraper set up to send a request to a URL, scrape a URL from the HTML that gets returned, and then download the file at the URL, does that count as one request towards Crawlera's monthly limit, or two?

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peixoto

peixoto posted over 5 years ago Admin Best Answer

Hello,


If you have to issue a separate request to download the content, then it would count as two different requests.

Crawlera accounts for all successful requests it delivers to your spider. If the requests are marked as banned or failed, they do not count.


Hope this is the info you were looking for.

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nathanwailes posted over 5 years ago

Thanks!

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peixoto

peixoto posted over 5 years ago Admin Answer

Hello,


If you have to issue a separate request to download the content, then it would count as two different requests.

Crawlera accounts for all successful requests it delivers to your spider. If the requests are marked as banned or failed, they do not count.


Hope this is the info you were looking for.

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