Kinda like a digital librarian. The main purpose of a web crawler program is to catalog the internet so search engines can find stuff fast.
It visits pages, reads the text, and saves a copy in a giant database. That’s why when you search, results show up in seconds.
If you wanna play with one, try Apache Nutch—it’s open-source!
It visits pages, reads the text, and saves a copy in a giant database. That’s why when you search, results show up in seconds.
If you wanna play with one, try Apache Nutch—it’s open-source!