# NEXTDC (`nextdc`)

Domain: www.nextdc.com · Kind: operator · Priority: 1 · Enabled: yes
License / attribution: Publicly accessible operator pages; factual data only; © NEXTDC Limited — attribution “NEXTDC”
Coverage: AU, NZ, MY, JP

# What it collects

Facility records (kind: facility) via parser(s) nextdc_facility_v1 in apps/worker/src/connectors/operators2/apac.ts.

Fields published by the pages and captured: name, code, city, countryIso2, itCapacityMw, buildingSqm (technical space), rackCount, tier, certifications, status.

Every field carries an extraction method in methods (e.g. json-ld:PostalAddress, regex:it_mw_v1, attr:data-value+MW, lookup:city-country) for provenance. Coordinates are only taken from JSON-LD / embedded JSON / map links published by the operator — never geocoded. Status defaults to operational unless the page uses pipeline wording (under construction / coming soon / planned).

# Discovery

Sitemaps: https://www.nextdc.com/sitemap.xml
Include: /data-centres/[a-z-]+-data-centres/[a-z]{1,2}\d{1,2}-[a-z-]+$, /news/, /media-releases?/, /newsroom/
Exclude: \?, #
Classify: /data-centres/[a-z-]+-data-centres/[a-z]{1,2}\d{1,2}-[a-z-]+$ → facility_pages (facility_page); /(news|media-releases?|newsroom)/. → newsroom (press_release)

Newsroom URLs (when configured) rely on the GenericConnector news fallback (press_release → news_event when data-center relevant).

# Schedule & fetch

Schedule: facility_pages weekly, newsroom daily, sitemap weekly
Fetch: L1→L2, 15 rpm, concurrency 2, robots.txt respected, max 20 premium credits/run. All pages are served at L1 (plain HTTP); maxLevel is capped at 2 so false-positive “blocked” heuristics (HubSpot / cookie-consent strings) never spend Scrapfly credits.

# Quirks

Facility pages /data-centres/-data-centres/- publish IT capacity, technical space, rack capacity, Tier and certifications. robots.txt allows / (HubSpot preview paths excluded).

# Verification (live, 2026-09-11)

try-connector --limit N: discovered 128 URLs (newsroom=103, facility_pages=25); sampled pages → 4 entities, 4 valid, 0 rejected, 0 premium credits.