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Launch Week I / Day 5: Real-Time Crawling with WebSockets

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Date Published
Author
Eric Ciarla
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178
Company Posts That Month
11
Language
English
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Summary

Firecrawl's Launch Week introduces an innovative feature, Real-Time Crawling with WebSockets, to elevate web scraping projects. The newly announced Crawl URL and Watch method utilizes a WebSocket-based approach to enable real-time data extraction and monitoring, offering new avenues for immediate data processing. This method begins a crawl job and provides a watcher object that allows users to set event listeners for various events, such as "document" when a new page is crawled, "error" if a problem occurs, and "done" when the crawl concludes. This real-time processing capability enables users to address errors instantly and determine the exact completion of a crawl, promising more dynamic and responsive applications. For implementation details, users are encouraged to consult the Firecrawl WebSocket Documentation.

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