Are Crawler runs automated or do I need to run them manually?

You can choose to either manually run your crawlers or schedule automatic run times for the crawler via the dashboard or the API. You can find detailed instructions on how perform that on our official documentation:

• Schedule crawls with the visual UI 

  • https://www.algolia.com/doc/tools/crawler/getting-started/crawler-configuration-visual

• Schedule crawlers with the editor

  • https://www.algolia.com/doc/tools/crawler/getting-started/crawler-configuration

• Schedule crawlers with the API client

  • https://www.algolia.com/doc/tools/crawler/apis/configuration/schedule