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Every automated crawler follows human-driven actions.
by zupa-hu 2y ago
Every automated crawler follows human-driven actions.
- gopher_space 2y agoWelcome to "Context".
- josh-sematic 2y agoConversely, every browser is a program that automatically executes HTTP requests.
- bayindirh 2y agoYet they respect a lot of things meant for machine to machine interaction. Like server return codes, cookie negotiations, and CAPTCHAs if they behave a certain way. So they sometimes hit bollards and turnstiles made for other types of code which executes HTTP requests. So they're bots basically, but better (or suitably) behaving ones.
- soulofmischief 2y agoBrowsers let you visit websites without regard for robots.txt.