crawler

Example Sentences

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He rewrote the code for a slow web crawler that Mr. Page had created to understand the relationship between links on different websites.

From New York Times

I was immediately smitten with the ritual, especially the idea of ordering burgers by the bagful, as if you were buying a sack of night crawlers.

From Washington Post

Thanks to a new study published in the Journal of Morphology, researchers have been able to learn a whole lot more about this very unusual creepy crawler.

From Salon

In the past, the developer has revamped its RPG series Persona as dungeon crawlers, brawlers, and rhythm games.

From The Verge

On Alibaba.com, the U.S. site of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, only Google’s crawler is given access to pages that list products.

From New York Times