How could I use the automatic retries but still assign a value when all the retries fail?

[matrs]

Using PlaywrightCrawler, I define multiple variables like this:

let x = await page
    .locator(cssSelector)
    .textContent()
    .then((str) => {
      // some code here
    })
    .catch((err) => {
      console.log("ERROR CATCHED X", err);
      return [];
)

That works OK, but I'm not using the automatic retries because I'm catching the error. I would like to use the automatic retries but if they all fail, return a specific value.

I guess one way to do this is to use failedRequestHandler, and define all the variables used in my other routers and set them to a specific value. Is that the proper way to accomplish this, or is there another way to do it?

[metalwarrior665]

failedRequestHandler is the standard way to solve this. You can store any data to request.userData so you have them available in the failed handler as well.