---
title: "CrawlScope"
description: "what a scrape may walk: the seeds, the address patterns allowed and denied, the greatest depth and count of pages, whether the sitemap drives discovery, and the pagination rule"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/crawlscope
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# CrawlScope

what a scrape may walk: the seeds, the address patterns allowed and denied, the greatest depth and count of pages, whether the sitemap drives discovery, and the pagination rule

[figure: CrawlScope is a value at none scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | value |
| scope | none |
| key | none |
| store | none |
| family | sources |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `seeds` | `[text]` | yes |  |
| `allow_patterns` | `[text]` | yes |  |
| `deny_patterns` | `[text]` | yes |  |
| `max_depth` | `count` | yes |  |
| `max_pages` | `count` | yes |  |
| `use_sitemap` | `bool` | yes |  |
| `pagination` | `text` | no | a selector or a pattern for the next page |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns CrawlScope directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.