Unfortunately, bots with faster execution can lead to more errors.

Axiom prioritises reducing errors - this means bots can sometimes be slow!

Here's some tips to speed up your bots:

Set Max results to avoid waiting for results to load

If you know you need to scrape 1 result per page (or 5, or 10 etc.) set 'Max results' to the number of results you need to scrape.

This means axiom will will stop once it has scraped 1 result, then move to the next iteration of the loop.

Use the Keyboard

Using Keyboard shortcuts and 'Tabbing' between inputs can be faster than selecting 'Enter Text' to enter data.

Please see our tips on using the keyboard.

Jump ahead with conditional logic

This may only apply to some scenarios.

Let's look at the example of entering data into multi-step form with 5 steps.

If at step 2, it is evident steps 3 and 4 are not required, you can jump ahead to Step 5 using conditional logic.

You could also end the automation early. See:

Conditional logic and looping.

Reduce the wait time on scrapers

If the scraper can find no more content matching your selectors, and has found fewer results than the specified max results setting, it will attempt to retry the scrape to make sure it hasn't missed anything.

Each retry takes a few seconds to complete. Retries are not attempted if the scraper has found 100% of the requested results, which is why setting a lower Max Results often results in good speed improvements.

You can control this behaviour using the "Missing result wait" optional parameter in the "Get data from a webpage" step. Setting a lower number here will reduce the number of retries.

Only use this if you are certain that the page contents are fast loading - as you reduce this number, the scraper becomes more likely to miss results.