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web crawler

or web·crawl·er

[web-kraw-ler]

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noun Digital Technology.

(sometimes initial capital letter) a computer program that retrieves data from a website, as in order to index web pages for a search engine.

Compare bot¹.

Origin of web crawler

First recorded in 1990–95

Also called spider.

Related formsweb crawling, noun

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Related Words for web crawler

portal, gateway