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A crawler is a computer program with the purpose to visit web sites and do something with the information on it.

Many crawlers crawl for search engines to index whatever page they visit. Such crawlers often return several times per day to check for updates.

Another use is to gather information such as mail addresses or something that suits the owner. This kind of crawlers check all the links on the page and visit them after the information collection, and in this way never stopping but keep crawling all over (the public parts of) the Web.

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