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Crawl

Updated: 10/02/2017 by Computer Hope

Crawl describes a bot, script, or program that visits a web page and grabs its content and links. Once completed, the program visits the next link in the list or a link obtained from the web page it had recently visited.

Internet terms, Metacrawler, Search engine, Spider

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