scraper
A scraper is a program that automatically finds and collects information from web pages.
A scraper loads web pages and extracts information such as text, prices or contact details according to set rules. Collecting data this way is called web scraping.
Unlike a crawler, which follows links to discover pages broadly as search engines do, a scraper focuses on pulling specific data out of particular pages. Scrapers are also used to gather data for analysis and for training AI models.
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