• airrow
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    1 year ago

    just a simple web crawler it sounds like

    • AliceOPMA
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      1 year ago

      I’m retarded what is a web crawler? Like a bot that crawls the web for certain search terms?

      • airrow
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        1 year ago

        i didn’t expect you to know but did expect you to look it up lol: https://infogalactic.com/info/Web_crawler

        it sounded like they were just trying to make a program that would basically copy the contents of a site to archive it or save the site. like you might see on the wayback machine on archive.org

        • AliceOPMA
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          1 year ago

          I should have. I’m being lazy sorry 😞 but why do they wanna do that though is my question

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            1 year ago

            many uses. for going back to (like keeping back up copies). sometimes they use the data for different projects. idk

            • AliceOPMA
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              1 year ago

              Come on. Tell me the cheese man O_O

              You guys know stuff ●_●