Web spider

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Web spider (plural Web spiders)

  1. (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

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