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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +title: Global wonderings |
| 3 | +--- |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | +## What is the general behaviour? |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +### How often do you scrap my website? |
| 8 | + |
| 9 | +We scrap your website, at least, every 24 hours since documentation is not meant to change frequently. |
| 10 | +Furthermore we update it after every pull request on your configuration. This is the best way to request us to trigger a new crawl. Please leverage your configuration file to do so. |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +### I want to add search to my whole website? |
| 13 | +DocSearch is suited for documentation content. If you want to widen the scope of your search to not documentation content. You have two solutions: |
| 14 | +- [Run it on your own](https://community.algolia.com/docsearch/documentation/docsearch-scraper/overview/) |
| 15 | +- Build your own search-UI [thanks to InstanteSearch](https://community.algolia.com/instantsearch.js/) ([example here](https://jsfiddle.net/s_pace/965a4w3o/)) |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +### Does the crawl encompass several domains/sub-domains? |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +The `start_urls` define the allowed domain for our crawler. Basically, we take the main domain of every URLs. We will not go outside this whitelisted domain list. If you want to encompass a wider domain, please include it as a new start_url. |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | +### Where is hosted the data? |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +As every Algolia index, everything is stored on our servers with the security and privacy required. You can [find more details in the global documentation pages.](https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/infrastructure/servers/) |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +## Feature |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +### Will it become paid? |
| 28 | + |
| 29 | +Open source is great and we want to support as much as we can. Since these projects mostly have limited resources, every granted project will ever remain free. |
| 30 | +If you want to upgrade your search experience, you can do it with your own Algolia implementation and [apply for a free community plan](https://www.algolia.com/pricing). DocSearch will not be used anymore but still happy to help. |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | +### What data are you collecting, who can get access to it? |
| 33 | + |
| 34 | +We only scrap publicly available data according to your custom selectors (see the how it works part). DocSearch introduces [the algolia analytics](https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/insights-and-analytics/analytics-overview/) for your DocSearch indices. |
| 35 | +You can ask access to these data by using the private email thread and send us the email addresses of the people to grant access. |
| 36 | + |
| 37 | +### Where can I see the analytics? |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | +Once you are granted (see above), analytics will be available in the Algolia dashboard like any regular application. You will need to select the analytics tabs. |
| 40 | + |
| 41 | +## I am not the owner, what can i do? |
| 42 | + |
| 43 | +You can definitely help improving the search experience of your favourite documentation website by opening issues on the repo. You can also reference the GitHub handle @s-pace if you want us to chime in / provide you a quick demo. You can advocate the owner of the repo by letting them request DocSearch. We would be happy to support you in such regards. Feel free to ping. |
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