Title: Programatically trigger crawler start / restart
Last modified: October 18, 2023

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# Programatically trigger crawler start / restart

 *  [puffinofdoom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/puffinofdoom/)
 * (@puffinofdoom)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/programatically-trigger-crawler-start-restart/)
 * I want to know if it is possible to programmatically make the crawler start /
   restart without using the cron jobs. I can see there are action hooks set up 
   in the LiteSpeed\Task class and it seems possible to call LiteSpeed\Crawler::
   start_async() but I would like to know if there are any downsides to making these
   function calls.

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