MapTheNet is an open, non-profit research project that crawls the public web at the domain level to build a comprehensive map of how websites link to one another. No personal data. No page content. Just the structure.
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Our crawler visits publicly accessible websites and records only the domain-level link relationships between them. This data is aggregated into a graph that researchers, educators, and policymakers can use to study the topology and health of the open web.
Learn MoreWe do not collect page content, personal data, cookies, or individual URLs. Our crawler respects robots.txt directives and rate limits every request. Domain owners can opt out at any time.
Our Data PolicyAll crawl data is released under an open license. Download compressed CSV exports or query our public API.