A web crawler (also known as a web spider or web robot) is a program or automated script which browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner. This process is called Web crawling or ...

Meta has quietly unleashed a new web crawler to scour the internet and collect data en masse to feed its AI model. The crawler, named the Meta External Agent, was launched last month according to ...

Yahoo today announced that it has released the source code for its Anthelion web crawler designed for parsing structured data from HTML pages under an open source license. Web crawling is at the very ...

Web crawlers, used by search engines like Google and Bing to scan websites and index content, are also used by AI companies to train LLMs. These models learn from the content of websites and any other ...

iFixit’s CEO says ClaudeBot hit the website’s servers ‘a million times in 24 hours.’ iFixit’s CEO says ClaudeBot hit the website’s servers ‘a million times in 24 hours.’ is a news writer focused on ...