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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.

Terms this definition uses

Parsing

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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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