Web Scraping Dictionary
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Definition updated on July 2023
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Robots.txt
What is robots.txt?
Search engine spiders are given specific pages or sections of a website to not index via a file called Robots.txt. The majority of significant search engines, including Google, Bing, and Yahoo, are aware of and abide by Robots.txt instructions.
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