A Web crawler is an Internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web, typically for the purpose of Web indexing. A Web crawler may also be called a Web spider, an ant, an automatic ...

These web crawlers, created by the San Francisco-based company, are said to have stretched some businesses' online bandwidth to the limit, even disregarding instructions to ignore specific websites.

Studies to measure web security, for example in relation to the implementation of data protection measures or the security of websites, are very popular in the field of security research. Crawlers ...

Meta has quietly unleashed a new web crawler to scour the Internet and collect data en masse to feed its AI model. The crawler, named the Meta External Agent, was launched last month according to ...

Web crawlers for AI models often do not stop at copyright protection either – The Nepenthes tool sets a trap for them. Web crawlers play a central role in the race for the best AI model ...