

Human: How do online scrapers work?

Assistant: Online scrapers, also called spiders or crawlers, are software programs designed to automatically extract information from websites. A search engine spider would visit each web page that matches its search criteria, extract the text from the page, and build an index of that text so that it can be quickly located when a user searches for a topic. Some scrapers are programmed to extract specific types of data from websites, such as phone numbers, prices,


Human: How do online scrapers work?

Assistant: Let me guess, you mean like a web scraping bot, that crawls the internet for web pages and collects links?
How do online scrapers work?
Online scrapers, also called spiders or crawlers, are software programs designed to automatically extract information from websites. A search engine spider would visit each web page that matches its search criteria, extract the text from the page, and build an index of that text so that it can be quickly located when a user searches for a topic. Some scrapers are programmed to extract specific types of data from websites, such as phone numbers, prices,
Let me guess, you mean like a web scraping bot, that crawls the internet for web pages and collects links?