How to Use web crawler in a Sentence

web crawler

noun
  • The organization uses web crawlers to capture snapshots of sites.
    Devika Rao, TheWeek, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Cloudflare, a company that oversees much of the internet’s web traffic, is digging its heels in over AI web crawlers.
    Samantha Elkins, NBC news, 1 July 2026
  • Moreover, the large-scale data scraping of Wikipedia by AI web crawlers placed a heavy toll on its servers, which are growing more expensive to maintain.
    Frank Landymore, Futurism, 15 Jan. 2026
  • This growth has naturally drawn the attention of font technology companies, some of which are enforcing end-user license agreements (EULAs) by using web crawlers.
    William Jones, USA Today, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Wired reported that 23 news organizations, including USA Today and the New York Times, are among the 241 sites denying Internet Archive’s web crawler access to their articles.
    Dave Lozo, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026

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