# What is a Spider?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-is-a-spider/330001>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [November 16, 2012, 11:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-is-a-spider/330001 "2012-11-16T11:24:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![samayaranjan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@samayaranjan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/samayaranjan)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 11:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-is-a-spider/330001/1 "2012-11-16T11:24:58Z")

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A “spider” is a software program ?