Web-crawling software

The answer

BOT

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BOT answer page.

Used 14 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2015. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• BOTS (6 uses in xd)

Other clues for BOT

Every other clue in this collection answered by BOT, most used first.

• Automaton, for short - used 63 times, most recently in 2026
• Droid - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
• Plant sci. - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• Spam generator - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• CAPTCHA target - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Spam sender - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Autonomous program - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Automated Twitter account - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Computerized task performer - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• 'Droid - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• Spam producer - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Web address - URL, used 196 times
• Web portal with a butterfly logo - MSN, used 42 times
• Web address, briefly - URL, used 28 times
• Web address part - DOT, used 20 times
• Web address, for short - URL, used 18 times
• "Charlotte's Web" monogram - EBW, used 16 times

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