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Start from a verified source URL
The crawler begins with a public website URL that you are authorized to process. That starting page becomes the first node in the crawl.
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Website Crawler Guide: How Website Crawling Works
Website crawling is the process of systematically discovering reachable pages and public resources from a starting URL. In website reconstruction workflows, crawling provides the structural map required to understand how a site is organized before capture or rebuilding begins.
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Discover internal links
Internal navigation and same-site links reveal additional public pages. A crawler records those relationships so the website can be treated as a connected structure rather than isolated documents.
3
Map public assets
Pages commonly depend on stylesheets, JavaScript, fonts, images and icons. Identifying those resources is important when the goal is reliable capture or reconstruction.
4
Normalize and deduplicate URLs
The same page can sometimes be reached through several URL variations. A useful crawl process normalizes URLs and avoids repeatedly processing equivalent destinations.
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Validate the resulting crawl
After discovery, important pages and assets should be checked for successful responses and obvious failures before the crawl is used as project input.