What is Web Crawler?

A crawler is a program that visits Web sites and peruses their pages and other data so as to make passages for an search engine3 index.The real web crawlers on the Web all have such a program, which is otherwise called an "spider" or a "bot." Crawlers are ordinarily modified to visit locales that have been presented by their proprietors as new or refreshed. Whole locales or particular pages can be specifically gone by and filed.
 
A web crawler or an Internet bot help in collecting information about a website and related links to the website. Web crawler validates HTML code and hyperlinks of a website. A Web crawler is also known as a Web spider, automatic indexer or simply crawler. Web spiders help search engines in indexing process. They crawl one page at a time through a website until all pages have been indexed.
 
A web crawler (also known as a web spider or web robot) is a program or automated script which browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner. This process is called Web crawling or spidering. Many legitimate sites, in particular search engines, use spidering as a means of providing up-to-date data.
 
Web crawler is an automated script that browses the World Wide Web in a methodical manner in order to provide up to date data to the particular search engine. The process of web crawling involves a set of website URLs that need to be visited, called seeds, and then the search engine crawler visits each web page and identifies all the hyperlinks on the page, adding them to the list of places to crawl.
 
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