WdsGetChunk

Reads all or part of a task’s downloaded page. If the download is pending, call GetChunk again with the same task ID

Arguments

Name Type Required Default Description
taskId string Yes None Download task ID returned by job start, in download task records from crawl requests, or embedded in a 202 Location URL from async task endpoints
startIndex int? No null Optional. Zero-based start index of the returned content substring. Omit or pass null to start at 0. A negative value or an index at or beyond the content length returns an empty ContentSpan
length int? No null Optional. Maximum number of content characters to return from startIndex. Omit or pass null to return all remaining content; a value of 0 or less returns an empty ContentSpan

Return Type

Returns ContentChunk?.

Technical return shape: ContentChunk or null.

Data Contracts

ContentChunk

Reports the full downloaded content length and the full or requested content span for one task

Fields:

Name Type Description
ContentLength int or null Optional. Length of the full downloaded page content in characters
ContentSpan string or null Optional. Full downloaded content or the requested substring. An invalid or non-positive range produces an empty string

Behavior

Read-only: no; idempotent: no; destructive: no; open-world: yes.

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