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 ...

Moreover, AI crawlers are much more aggressive than standard crawlers. As the InMotionhosting web hosting company notes, they also tend to disregard crawl delays or bandwidth-saving guidelines and ...

Cloudflare has now exposed several secret details about Perplexity's crawling practices, alleging that the AI company uses 'stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives.' ...

This happens when the web crawler downloads several irrelevant web pages. To maintain the freshness of the database, web crawlers adopt a polling method or use multiple crawlers.

OpenAI has announced the launch of its web crawler GPTBot, which trains and enhances artificial intelligence capabilities, and the company said will improve AI models.

Configured as a trap behind a web server (e.g. /nepenthes), any web crawler that accesses it will be presented with an endless number of (randomly generated) pages with many URLs to follow.

The crawler would also need some way to enable user defined processing of downloaded files for example by using call backs to user scripts. The crawler should be multithreaded and ideally would allow ...

AI crawler wars threaten to make the web more closed for everyone There’s an accelerating cat-and-mouse game between web publishers and AI crawlers, and we all stand to lose.

In a recent blog post, Daniel Cid, CTO of Securi, a company that provides website security monitoring and related services, published details of a recent SQL Injection attempt. That in itself isn ...