# Get Crawl

Check the crawl status to see when the crawl completes.

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="HTTP" %}

```
POST /docs/get_crawl HTTP/1.1
Api-Key: my_api_key
Content-Type: application/json
Host: my_account_id.us-west-2.aws.chatbees.ai

{
  "namespace_name": "string",
  "collection_name": "string",
  "crawl_id": "string"
}

Response:
{
  "root_url": "string",
  "created_on": int,
  "max_pages": int,
  // crawl_status: 1 = RUNNING, 2 = SUCCEEDED, 3 = FAILED
  "crawl_status": int,
  "crawl_result": {
    // error_code and error_msg is Optional, only set if crawling url1 fails
    "url1": {"char_count": int, "error_code": "string" or null, "error_msg": "string" or null},
    ...
  }
}

```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Python" %}

```
import chatbees as cb

# Configure API key
cb.init(api_key="my_api_key", account_id="my_account_id")

col = cb.collection('llm_research')

# check the crawl status
max_waits = 100
waits = 0 
while waits < max_waits:
    status, pages = col.get_crawl(crawl_id)
    if status != cb.CrawlStatus.RUNNING:
        break
    time.sleep(5)
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}


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# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation

If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.

Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://docs.chatbees.ai/chatbees/api-references/crawl-operations/get-crawl.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.