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title: Web scraping
slug: '2767'
canonical_url: https://docs.coveo.com/en/2767/
collection: glossary
source_format: adoc
---
# Web scraping
{doctitle} is a Sitemap and Web [source](https://docs.coveo.com/en/246/) configuration option that lets administrators exclude irrelevant sections, create [metadata](https://docs.coveo.com/en/218/), and generate sub-[items](https://docs.coveo.com/en/210/) when [indexing](https://docs.coveo.com/en/204/) web pages.