Questions tagged [web-crawler]

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Can I whitelist user agents that will execute JavaScript?

I'm building a SPA (single page application) so that when a browser request a page from my server, it only receives a small HTML and a big JavaScript app that then asks the appropriate data from the server, renders the HTML locally and generally…
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Is it considered bad practice to crawl through the mobile version of a site?

I am building a web spider to crawl through several different sites, but one of them uses javascript buttons instead of links for several functions. And while I could learn to follow them, it adds an extra layer of complexity I would rather avoid if…
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