# What exactly are crawlers?

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**Category:** Data & reporting\
**Created:** [April 21, 2025, 2:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-exactly-are-crawlers/362811 "2025-04-21T14:41:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mittens](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittens/32/485149_2.png) [@Mittens](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittens)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2025, 2:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-exactly-are-crawlers/362811/1 "2025-04-21T14:41:05Z")

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So im seeing this

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/c/2/5/c25be6cabad2fb596808c75282653fb83d09c03b.png)  
and I was wondering what crawlers are?

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