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by rakoo 1255 days ago
> Not for services loading specific URLs due to (sometimes indirect) user requests.

A crawler has a list of resources it periodically checks to see if it changed, and if it did, indexes it for user requests.

Contrary to this totally-not-a-crawler, with its own database of existing resources, that periodically checks if anything changed, and if it did, caches content and builds chescksums.