What is TestCrawler?

TestCrawler is not a widely recognized or branded web crawler; rather, it appears to be a generic or custom-built bot, often used by developers or QA engineers for testing purposes. Its primary function is to simulate the behavior of a web crawler, allowing website administrators or developers to verify how their sites respond to automated crawling, indexing, or scraping activities. TestCrawler may be used to check for proper robots.txt handling, evaluate site performance under crawl load, or ensure that content is accessible to legitimate search engines. Since it is not associated with any major search engine or commercial service, its presence in server logs usually indicates internal testing or development activity rather than public indexing.

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