Definitions
Something that crawls, or a program that automatically scans web pages.
Word origin
From crawl (“to move slowly, by dragging the body along the ground”) + -er.
Used in a sentence
“Crawler-based search engines have three major elements. The first is the spider, also called the crawler, which visits a web page, reads it, and then follows links to other pages within the site.”
“These serve as an algorithmic way to judge the “mobileness” of a site, and similar algorithms are likely to be used by the search crawlers.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Web-indexing program”7 letters
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