Web Crawling is a form of web scraping that involves systematically browsing the web to collect data from multiple web pages. It is often used to gather large amounts of data from websites, such as search engines, social media platforms, and e-commerce sites.
Broad crawling is even more extreme form of crawling where a generic scraping solution is applied to many different websites. This is often done to collect data for research, analysis, or to build datasets for machine learning.
Today, web crawling is used in a variety of applications, including search engines, data mining, and web archiving. It is a powerful tool for collecting and analyzing data from the web.
To start understanding web crawling see our introduction on URL extraction:
For more on web crawling in the context of web scraping and data programming, see below 👇
