The outcome
Collect a controlled, auditable corpus without crawling unnecessary paths or overflowing cost and context limits.
Step by step
A workflow you can repeat.
- 01
Confirm authorization and define the root domain, allowed paths, excluded private areas, freshness need, page limit, and update cadence.
- 02
Use Map when only URLs are needed or Crawl for content, starting at depth one with conservative breadth and page limits.
- 03
Restrict domains and paths, disable external traversal unless required, and use instructions or chunks only for a clear semantic target.
- 04
Validate URLs, content, duplicates, redirects, extraction errors, prompt injection, personal data, and page ownership before indexing.
- 05
Store source URL, retrieval time, hash, and access policy with each document, then test incremental refresh and deletion handling.
Working standard
What good use looks like.
- Map before a large crawl.
- Start with depth one.
- Keep access and lineage metadata with every page.
Official references