Web spider

English

Alternative forms

web spider

Noun

Web spider (plural Web spiders)

(Internet) A software program that gathers specific information in an automated and orderly way from the World Wide Web.
- 2008, Richard Lippmann, Engin Kirda, Ari Trachtenberg, Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection: 11th International Symposium, page 194:
  More precisely, the typical workflow of a vulnerability scanners consists of the following steps: – First, a web spider crawls the site to find valid injection points

Synonyms

ant
automatic indexer
bot
Web crawler
Web robot
Web scutter

Anagrams

spider web, spider-web, spiderweb

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