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Web scraping and extraction
Breadcrumbs
Also called: Breadcrumb trail
The navigation trail on a page that shows where it sits in a site's hierarchy, such as Home › Tools › Drills.
In practice
Breadcrumbs are a cheap, reliable source of category context for mapping products into your own taxonomy.
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