Configuration

Configuration is a value object holding Crawlee configuration. By default, there is a global singleton instance of this class available via Configuration.getGlobalConfig(). Places that depend on a configurable behaviour depend on this class, as they have the global instance as the default value.

Using global configuration:

import { BasicCrawler, Configuration } from 'crawlee';

// Get the global configuration
const config = Configuration.getGlobalConfig();
// Set the 'persistStateIntervalMillis' option
// of global configuration to 10 seconds
config.set('persistStateIntervalMillis', 10_000);

// No need to pass the configuration to the crawler,
// as it's using the global configuration by default
const crawler = new BasicCrawler();

Using custom configuration:

import { BasicCrawler, Configuration } from 'crawlee';

// Create a new configuration
const config = new Configuration({ persistStateIntervalMillis: 30_000 });
// Pass the configuration to the crawler
const crawler = new BasicCrawler({ ... }, config);

The configuration provided via environment variables always takes precedence. We can also define the crawlee.json file in the project root directory which will serve as a baseline, so the options provided in constructor will override those. In other words, the precedence is:

crawlee.json < constructor options < environment variables

Supported Configuration Options

Key	Environment Variable	Default Value
memoryMbytes	CRAWLEE_MEMORY_MBYTES	-
logLevel	CRAWLEE_LOG_LEVEL	-
headless	CRAWLEE_HEADLESS	true
defaultDatasetId	CRAWLEE_DEFAULT_DATASET_ID	'default'
defaultKeyValueStoreId	CRAWLEE_DEFAULT_KEY_VALUE_STORE_ID	'default'
defaultRequestQueueId	CRAWLEE_DEFAULT_REQUEST_QUEUE_ID	'default'
persistStateIntervalMillis	CRAWLEE_PERSIST_STATE_INTERVAL_MILLIS	60_000
purgeOnStart	CRAWLEE_PURGE_ON_START	true
persistStorage	CRAWLEE_PERSIST_STORAGE	true

Advanced Configuration Options

Key	Environment Variable	Default Value
inputKey	CRAWLEE_INPUT_KEY	'INPUT'
xvfb	CRAWLEE_XVFB	-
chromeExecutablePath	CRAWLEE_CHROME_EXECUTABLE_PATH	-
defaultBrowserPath	CRAWLEE_DEFAULT_BROWSER_PATH	-
disableBrowserSandbox	CRAWLEE_DISABLE_BROWSER_SANDBOX	-
availableMemoryRatio	CRAWLEE_AVAILABLE_MEMORY_RATIO	0.25

Index

Constructors

• constructor

Methods

• get
• getEventManager
• set
• useEventManager
• useStorageClient
• getEventManager
• getGlobalConfig
• getStorageClient
• resetGlobalState

Constructors

constructor

• new Configuration(options?: ConfigurationOptions): Configuration

• Creates new Configuration instance with provided options. Env vars will have precedence over those.

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  Parameters

  • options: ConfigurationOptions = {}

  Returns Configuration

Methods

get

• get<T, U>(key: T, defaultValue?: U): U

• Returns configured value. First checks the environment variables, then provided configuration, fallbacks to the defaultValue argument if provided, otherwise uses the default value as described in the above section.

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  Type parameters

  • T: keyof ConfigurationOptions
  • U: undefined | string | number | boolean | Dictionary<any> | StorageClient | (radix?: number) => string | () => number | (fractionDigits?: number) => string | (fractionDigits?: number) => string | (precision?: number) => string | ({ (locales?: string | string[], options?: NumberFormatOptions): string; (locales?: LocalesArgument, options?: NumberFormatOptions): string }) | EventManager

  Parameters

  • key: T

  • optionaldefaultValue: U

  Returns U

getEventManager

• getEventManager(): EventManager

• Returns EventManager

set

• set(key: keyof ConfigurationOptions, value?: any): void

• Sets value for given option. Only affects this Configuration instance, the value will not be propagated down to the env var. To reset a value, we can omit the value argument or pass undefined there.

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  Parameters

  • key: keyof ConfigurationOptions

  • optionalvalue: any

  Returns void

useEventManager

• useEventManager(events: EventManager): void

• Parameters

  • events: EventManager

  Returns void

useStorageClient

• useStorageClient(client: StorageClient): void

• Parameters

  • client: StorageClient

  Returns void

staticgetEventManager

• getEventManager(): EventManager

• Gets default EventManager instance.

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  Returns EventManager

staticgetGlobalConfig

• getGlobalConfig(): Configuration

• Returns the global configuration instance. It will respect the environment variables.

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  Returns Configuration

staticgetStorageClient

• getStorageClient(): StorageClient

• Gets default StorageClient instance.

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  Returns StorageClient

staticresetGlobalState

• resetGlobalState(): void

• Resets global configuration instance. The default instance holds configuration based on env vars, if we want to change them, we need to first reset the global state. Used mainly for testing purposes.

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  Returns void