All You Need to Know About Web Crawling

1. ALL YOU NEED TO
KNOW ABOUT WEB
CRAWLING
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2. Web crawling, also known as spidering, involves finding
and downloading web pages. A web crawler, or spider,
is a program that downloads web pages, extracts
hyperlinks, and continuously downloads linked pages.
This process allows a substantial portion of the
"surface web" to be crawled, with thousands of pages
downloaded per second.
What is Web
Crawling?

3. Features of a
Good Crawler
Robustness
Distributed
Scalability
Performance and efficiency
Quality
Extensibility

4. What are the different
types of web
crawlers?
General-purpose web crawlers
Focused web crawlers
Incremental web crawlers
Distributed web crawlers
Focused crawler
Vertical search engine crawlers

5. How does a
web crawler
work?
Start with a list of URLs
Visit each URL
Collect data
Follow links
Index and store data
Repeat the process

6. Web
Crawling
Applications
Web crawling has a wide
range of applications
across various industries
and fields, including:
Search engine indexing
Website optimization
Market research
Social media monitoring
News and media
E-commerce
Intellectual property protection

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8. Why should I choose web
scraping when I can get
the data manually?
Because,
Web Scraping = Data +
Efficiency - Boredom.