Architecture Patterns
Design a Web Crawler
A web crawler systematically browses the World Wide Web, indexing content by following hyperlinks and storing the data for later retrieval. Effective crawler design requires balancing breadth-first exploration with politeness constraints and efficient storage.
HTTPHTML parsingrobots.txtURL frontierBloom filterBreadth-first searchDepth-first searchRate limitingDistributed processingSpider traps
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