Is there really no way to add links?

[pguardiario]

I'm looking for a way to manually add a link for crawling and all I can find is enqueueLinks which I absolutely don't want. Is there really no way to add a single link?

[B4nan]

You can use crawler.addRequests(), or add requests to the queue directly (you can create the queue yourself and add requests there).

[pguardiario]

Thanks @B4nan, I appreciate the reply and I will look into it. I would consider a enqueueLink property that takes a single url, this seems way more intuitive to me.. Also more info on the (https://crawlee.dev/docs/introduction/adding-urls)[adding more urls] page would be helpful..

[B4nan]

enqueueLinks is a helper for finding URLs on the current page, crawler.addRequests() is API designed for what you want, enqueueLinks is not.

FYI you can use enqueueLinks with a list of URLs as well, it has urls option where you can put the explicit list (with a single item if you want).

[pguardiario]

FYI you can use enqueueLinks with a list of URLs as well, it has urls option where you can put the explicit list (with a single item if you want).

This is what I was expecting / hoping for but couldn't find in the docs. Thanks for clarification

[B4nan]

We don't have any guide for this, as again, this is not the supposed usage. We can surely mention this on the page about adding urls.

https://crawlee.dev/api/next/core/interface/EnqueueLinksOptions#urls

[pguardiario]

Yeah, sorry if I missed something, the website is frustrating to navigate in a lot of ways... I'm not sure I have the patience to get through it but I like what I've seen so far.

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