I'm curious if there's a method to explore every page on a website just by knowing its main URL. Is that even possible, and if so, how would I go about doing it?
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There are tools you can use, like a web crawler, that may help you discover more pages by scanning the site. Just be careful with how you use them since some sites don’t allow that kind of access.
You can't exactly get all the pages from a URL directly. It really depends on the website itself. Some sites have a sitemap, which lists all their pages, but not every site makes that available. If they do, you can usually find it by adding '/sitemap.xml' to the URL or checking their footer.
Got it! So if the sitemap isn't available, there's not really a way to pull all those page links? That's a bummer!
Cool, I'll look into that! Are there any recommended crawlers that are user-friendly?