What is the main purpose of a web crawler program? Can someone explain? or What is the main purpose o

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Hey! So, the main purpose of a web crawler program is basically to scan and index web pages so search engines like Google can organize and rank them.

They’re like digital librarians—constantly hopping from link to link, grabbing info. Some sites block them ’cause they don’t wanna get overloaded with requests or maybe they just don’t wanna be indexed (like private forums).

If you wanna play around with one, check out Scrapy—it’s a cool Python tool for building your own crawler.

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