Web Crawler or SpiderbotA web crawler or spiderbots is a program used by search engines to collect data from the Internet. When a crawler visits a website, it selects all content from the website and stores it in a database.
It also stores all the external and internal links of the website and will visit them at a later time, this is how it moves from one website to another.
References –
- https://www.twaino.com/en/definition/c/crawler-or-robot/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler
- https://www.elastic.co/what-is/web-crawler
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