Web Interface: Settings

Overview

The web interface settings can be opened by clicking on the settings button in the upper-right corner of the screen.

Settings

• Timeout: The default number of minutes the scraping session is allowed to run before a request to stop is inserted.
  

  If this value is blank, 0, or negative, the scraping session will not time out.

• Time: The default percentage of time whereby two runs of a scraping session may differ without being flagged as a possible error.
• Record Count: The default percentage of records scraped whereby two runs of a scraping session may differ without being flagged as a possible error.
• Repeat Every: How often the scrape should be rerun by default.
• Reload From File: If you directly edit the screen-scraper.properties file this causes the new settings to be reloaded.
• Save: Save settings and close dialog.
• Cancel: Close without saving changes to settings.

Flagged scrapes are highlighted in red in the run/running tab.