Web-crawling software, also known as web-scraping software, is a type of software used to automatically collect data from websites. It is typically used by search engines to index webpages and by businesses to monitor competitor prices. The two solutions for the term WEB-CRAWLING SOFTWARE are BOT and BOTS. BOT stands for 'ROBOT' and is a computer program that performs automated tasks. BOTS stands for 'ROBOTS' and is the plural form of BOT.