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Scrapy (/ ˈ s k r eɪ p aɪ / [2] SKRAY-peye) is a free and open-source web-crawling framework written in Python. Originally designed for web scraping, it can also be used to extract data using APIs or as a general-purpose web crawler. [3] It is currently maintained by Zyte (formerly Scrapinghub), a web-scraping development and services company.
Common Crawl is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that crawls the web and freely provides its archives and datasets to the public. [1] [2] Common Crawl's web archive consists of petabytes of data collected since 2008. [3] It completes crawls approximately once a month. [4] Common Crawl was founded by Gil Elbaz. [5]
Web scraping is the process of automatically mining data or collecting information from the World Wide Web. It is a field with active developments sharing a common goal with the semantic web vision, an ambitious initiative that still requires breakthroughs in text processing, semantic understanding, artificial intelligence and human-computer interactions.
Googlebot is the web crawler software used by Google that collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Google Search engine. This name is actually used to refer to two different types of web crawlers: a desktop crawler (to simulate desktop users) and a mobile crawler (to simulate a mobile user).
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.
Crawljax is a free and open source web crawler for automatically crawling and analyzing dynamic Ajax-based Web applications. [1] One major point of difference between Crawljax and other traditional web crawlers is that Crawljax is an event-driven dynamic crawler, capable of exploring JavaScript-based DOM state changes. Crawljax can be used to ...
Crawler-based search engines are those that use automated software agents (called crawlers) that visit a Web site, read the information on the actual site, read the site's meta tags and also follow the links that the site connects to performing indexing on all linked Web sites as well. The crawler returns all that information back to a central ...
Nutch is coded entirely in the Java programming language, but data is written in language-independent formats. It has a highly modular architecture, allowing developers to create plug-ins for media-type parsing, data retrieval, querying and clustering. The fetcher ("robot" or "web crawler") has been written from scratch specifically for this ...