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title: Global wonderings
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## What is the general behaviour?
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### How often do you scrap my website?
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We scrap your website, at least, every 24 hours since documentation is not meant to change frequently.
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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.
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### I want to add search to my whole website?
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DocSearch is suited for documentation content. If you want to widen the scope of your search to not documentation content. You have two solutions:
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- [Run it on your own](https://community.algolia.com/docsearch/documentation/docsearch-scraper/overview/)
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- Build your own search-UI [thanks to InstanteSearch](https://community.algolia.com/instantsearch.js/) ([example here](https://jsfiddle.net/s_pace/965a4w3o/))
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### Does the crawl encompass several domains/sub-domains?
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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.
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### Where is hosted the data?
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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/)
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## Feature
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### Will it become paid?
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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.
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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.
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### What data are you collecting, who can get access to it?
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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.
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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.
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### Where can I see the analytics?
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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.
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## I am not the owner, what can i do?
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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 @algolia/docsearch 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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