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What's the difference between a visual crawler and a classic crawler?


Asked by Roger Fitzgerald on Dec 14, 2021 FAQ



There are a number of "visual web scraper/crawler" products available on the web which will crawl pages and structure data into columns and rows based on the users requirements. One of the main difference between a classic and a visual crawler is the level of programming ability required to set up a crawler.
In fact,
A web crawler (also known as a web spider, spider bot, web bot, or simply a crawler) is a computer software program that is used by a search engine to index web pages and content across the World Wide Web. Indexing is quite an essential process as it helps users find relevant queries within seconds.
Consequently, While a crawler mostly deals with metadata that is not visible to the user at first glance, a scraper extracts tangible content. If you don’t want certain crawlers to browse your website, you can exclude their user agent using robots.txt. However, that cannot prevent content from being indexed by search engines.
Indeed,
Bingbot is one of the most popular web spiders powered by Microsoft. It helps a search engine, Bing, to create the most relevant index for its users. DuckDuckGo is probably one of the most popular search engines that do not track your history and follow you on whatever sites you are visiting.
In respect to this,
Slurp Bot is used for indexing and scraping of web pages to enhance personalized content for users. Bingbot is one of the most popular web spiders powered by Microsoft. It helps a search engine, Bing, to create the most relevant index for its users.