Web spider

English

Alternative forms

• web spider

Noun

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

Synonyms

• ant
• automatic indexer
• bot
• Web crawler
• Web robot
• Web scutter

Anagrams

• spider web, spider-web, spiderweb