Website Scanning, Re-scans & Credits

This explains how Velaro keeps your bot's website knowledge up to date, what counts against your plan, and how to check what you have left.

How your website knowledge stays current

When you connect a website source, Velaro crawls it and indexes the pages so your bot can answer from them. After that, Velaro automatically re-scans on a schedule so your content stays fresh — you don't have to do anything:

• Starter — automatic re-scan every 30 days
• Professional — automatic re-scan every 7 days
• Enterprise — automatic re-scan every day

If a re-scan finds no changes, it's free — it doesn't use any of your manual re-scans.

Smart Scan — skipping pages that haven't changed

When you start a scan, Velaro checks each URL against what it already has indexed. Any page that's genuinely unchanged since the last scan is skipped automatically — you'll see a plain-language summary like "Everything here was already up to date, nothing new to scrape" instead of a 0-pages-scraped result that looks like a failure.

Before you start a scan, the URL list shows a "cached" badge with the date it was last scraped for any page Velaro already has indexed, so you know upfront what will likely be skipped.

If you want Velaro to re-fetch pages anyway — for example you changed something on the page but the crawler hasn't picked it up yet — use Force re-scrape anyway. Because this pulls pages Velaro already believes are current, it draws from your monthly manual re-scan allowance the same as any other manual re-scan; your remaining count is shown right there before you confirm.

Manual re-scans (your "credits")

If you've just updated your site and don't want to wait for the next automatic re-scan, you can trigger one yourself. Each plan includes a number of manual re-scans per month of an already-connected source:

• Starter — 3 manual re-scans / month
• Professional — 10 manual re-scans / month
• Enterprise — 30 manual re-scans / month

Connecting a new source never counts against this — only re-scanning a source you've already connected does. To prevent accidental loops, the same source can only be manually re-scanned once every few hours.

Page limits

Every plan has a monthly page allowance and a per-crawl page cap (the most pages one scan will fetch). These are finite on every plan to keep your indexing fast and your costs predictable. If you reach a limit you'll see a clear message; nothing is silently truncated.

Where to see what you have left

Go to Settings → Billing & Limits to see your scraping allowances and how much you've used this month — pages used vs. your monthly cap, and manual re-scans used vs. included.

Need more this month?

If you run a bigger update and need extra manual re-scans before your next cycle, contact support — they can add more to your account for the month. Connecting additional/new sources is always free and never blocked.