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This library provides kind of a framework and a lot of ready-to-use, so-called steps, that you can use as building blocks, to build your own crawlers and scrapers with. Before diving into the library, let's have a look at the terms crawling and scraping. For most real-world use cases, those two things go hand in hand, which is why this library helps with and combines both. A (web) crawler is a program that (down)loads documents and follows the links in it to load them as well. A crawler could just load actually all links it is finding (and is allowed to load according to the robots.txt file), then it would just load the whole internet (if the URL(s) it starts with are no dead end). ...