Web crawling as a concept is gaining momentum across all walks of the industry by the day. The relevance and number of use cases that have been recognized and utilized is just growing phenomenally. One can only gape in awe when observing the evolution of web crawling as a product and service over the past number of years since its inception in the early internet days.

Initially, web crawling was designed only for a small web base that the internet was almost two decades back. Howeve.........

This is in continuation to the “Web Crawling and Web Scraping: Mystery Behind Legal Lines”. In case you have missed out on the earlier two publications, you can click here for Part 1 and click here for Part 2.

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In the earlier version, we established basic concepts and the basic thought behind having web crawling and web scraping serices and its legality. In case you missed out on it, you can click here to read 'Web Crawling & Web Scraping: The Mystery Behind Legal Lines (Part 1)'

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While web scraping is used widely and contributes massively to .........

A few years back, not long ago, one of my batch mates studying computer science had a brilliant idea for a university project – this project was supposed to be his great escape plan from getting bad grades, this was supposed to salvage all the shortfalls he had in his semester grades. What was this project about? His brilliant idea was to deploy a mega web crawler to crawl and fetch results from multiple high flying and well-known websites and then publish all fetched and crawled data i.........

 In continuation to the earlier blog post on types and levels of web crawlers, there is much more to the series of categorization. In case you missed any of the previous awesome types of crawlers, click here to read about them.

Meanwhile, let’s move ahead and check out more interesting web crawlers and crawling process types.

Incremental Crawl

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