Web crawler

internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web, typically for the purpose of Web indexing (web spidering) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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A web crawler or spider is a computer program that automatically fetches the contents of a web page. The program then analyses the content, for example to index it by certain search terms. Search engines commonly use web crawlers.[1]

  • HTTrack – a web crawler released in 1998

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