Link extraction
Parsing documents to collect destination URLs.
What Link extraction does not show
A string that resembles a link may be ignored if it is not exposed in a crawlable element or rendered state.
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Questions about Link extraction
What is Link extraction?
Parsing documents to collect destination URLs.
What does Link extraction not show or guarantee?
A string that resembles a link may be ignored if it is not exposed in a crawlable element or rendered state.
Which area of the glossary does Link extraction belong to?
Crawling and indexing: How a crawler discovers, schedules, fetches and selects pages, and why a fetched page is not an indexed one.
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