We have paused all crawling as of Feb 6th, 2025 until we implement robots.txt support. Stats will not update during this period.
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They do have a dedicated "Crawler" page.
And they do mention there that they use a website crawler for their Developer Tools and Network features.
Maybe the definition of the term "crawler" has changed but crawling used to mean downloading a web page, parsing the links and then downloading all those links, parsing those pages, etc etc until the whole site has been downloaded. If there were links going to other sites found in that corpus then the same process repeats for those. Obviously this could cause heavy load, hence robots.txt.
Fedidb isn't doing anything like that so I'm a bit bemused by this whole thing.