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Data Freshness SLAs - How Often Should You Really Scrape That?

· 13 min read
Oleg Kulyk
Co-Founder @ ScrapingAnt

Data Freshness SLAs: How Often Should You Really Scrape That?

Defining a robust data freshness Service Level Agreement (SLA) is one of the most consequential design decisions in any data-driven product that relies on web scraping. Scrape too often and you burn budget, hit rate limits, and attract unwanted attention; scrape too rarely and your “live” dashboards, pricing engines, or risk models quietly drift out of sync with reality.