wigolo-crawl

Local-first multi-page crawl with sitemap, BFS, DFS, and URL-map strategies, anchor-fragment dedup, rate limiting, robots.txt respect, and automatic local cache population. Use when the user wants to index documentation, crawl a docs site, extract all pages under a path, or says "crawl", "index this site", "get all the docs", "bulk extract". Prefer when crawled pages should land in a reusable local cache for later `cache` / `find_similar` queries.

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wigolo crawl

Crawl sites with configurable strategy, depth, and rate limiting. All pages enter the local cache with embeddings.

Quick Reference

// Crawl docs via sitemap (fastest, recommended for doc sites)
{ "url": "https://docs.example.com", "strategy": "sitemap", "max_pages": 30 }

// BFS crawl with scope filter
{ "url": "https://example.com", "strategy": "bfs", "max_depth": 3, "max_pages": 50, "include_patterns": ["^https://example\\.com/docs"] }

// URL discovery only (no content fetched — fastest for scoping)
{ "url": "https://example.com", "strategy": "map" }

// Authenticated crawl
{ "url": "https://app.example.com/docs", "strategy": "bfs", "use_auth": true, "max_pages": 20 }

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	When to use
`url`	string	required	Seed URL
`strategy`	string	"bfs"	"sitemap" for doc sites, "map" for URL discovery only
`max_depth`	number	2	How many link levels to follow
`max_pages`	number	20	Hard cap on pages fetched
`include_patterns`	string[]	none	Regex whitelist — ALWAYS add to stay in scope
`exclude_patterns`	string[]	none	Regex blacklist
`use_auth`	boolean	false	For authenticated sites
`extract_links`	boolean	false	Return inter-page link graph
`max_total_chars`	number	100000	Total char budget
`max_tokens_out`	number	none	Token-budget cap (cl100k-base)
`include_full_markdown`	boolean	false	Pages return evidence-only by default
`citation_format`	string	"numbered"	"numbered" / "json" / "anthropic_tags"

Pages are dedup'd by canonical URL (anchor-fragment aware: /intro and /intro#install collapse to one entry).

After Crawling

All crawled pages enter the local cache with embeddings. This means:

cache({ query: "..." }) finds content instantly (no network).
find_similar({ url: "..." }) discovers related pages from cached content.
Future searches that hit cached URLs return instantly.

Crawl first, then use cache and find_similar for subsequent lookups.

Anti-Patterns

DON'T crawl max_pages: 100 without include_patterns — fetches nav/footer/sitemap noise.
DON'T use BFS on large doc sites — strategy: "sitemap" is faster and more complete.
DON'T crawl when you need one page — use fetch.

When NOT to use wigolo-crawl

Login-required crawl beyond what use_auth covers — handle authentication externally first, then crawl.