Web Crawler

Web Crawler is a feature of Oxylabs Scraper APIs that lets you spider any website, select useful content, and have it delivered in bulk.

If you want to learn more about web crawlers, check this blog post for a detailed explanation.

Yes. You can try out the Web Crawler feature by claiming a free trial of either our E-Commerce Scraper API or Web Scraper API directly from our dashboard.

Web Crawler can discover all pages on a website and fetch data at scale and in real time.

The tool follows the links from the initial web page to other pages until it has visited and indexed all the pages it can find on a particular website.

The answer depends on the specific task at hand. Before crawling, make sure you are in line with the applicable laws regarding your access to a particular public domain. Our team suggests seeking professional legal guidance. Check our blog post on the legalities of public web data gathering.

Web crawlers are used by individuals and organizations – anyone who needs to collect data from websites – including but not limited to: 

• Search engines index and organize web pages, allowing users to easily find relevant information.

• E-commerce companies gather information about their competitors' products, prices, and promotions.

• Marketing professionals collect data on their target audience, monitor social media mentions, and track online reputation of their brand.

• Government agencies monitor websites for illegal or harmful content and gather intelligence for security purposes.

• Website owners check their website's search engine rankings, identify broken links, and track their brand's online reputation.