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web crawler
Also known as ant, automatic indexer, web spider, web scutter, web crawlers, spider, search engine spider
internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web, typically for the purpose of Web indexing (web spidering)
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Architecture of a Web crawler
A web crawler, sometimes called a spider or spiderbot and often shortened to crawler, is an Internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web and that is typically operated by search engines for the purpose of Web indexing (web spidering).