• AliceOPMA
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    10 months 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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      10 months 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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        10 months ago

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

        • airrow
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          10 months 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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            10 months ago

            Come on. Tell me the cheese man O_O

            You guys know stuff ●_●