I have a bunch of different crawler definitions (for different sites) that might use different crawlee crawlers. Site X might use a

PlaywrightCrawler

while site Y uses

CheerioCrawler

. I wrap this logic in a definition like

class SiteXCrawlerDefinition {
  getCrawler() { return new PlaywrightCrawler() }
}

since I do want to add an interface to the crawler definition classes I'd need a return type for

getCrawler

.

BasicCrawler

doesn't work - is there another type for "just any crawlee crawler"?

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Hello, since all Crawlee crawlers inherit via different paths, there isn’t a single “catch-all” type for every crawler. You have a few options: Explicitly declare the return type for each crawler, e.g., CheerioCrawler or PlaywrightCrawler. Use BasicCrawler to cover multiple types. Use a type cast to bypass TypeScript’s strict type checking, though this is less safe. Basically, there’s no one-size-fits-all type, so you need to choose the approach that works best for your interface.

k get it, thanks a lot!