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Walk the pagination decision

Design a pagination crawl with clear source of next URLs, dedupe, and stop conditions.

The crawl risk You need all public listings in a category. The page contains product links, nav links, recommendation links, and a pager. Following every link creates loops. Following no links misses coverage. PDCA for pagination Plan the next-source, pilot the crawl, check duplicates, adjust the stop rule. Pagination is safer when discovery is constrained to the part of the page that actually defines the listing sequence. Shortcut Follow every link that looks internal. A bounded crawl that can be tested before scale. The crawler should know why a URL is next, not merely that a URL exists. 01 Find…

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