fetcher
/ˈfɛtʃər/
noun
- A person or animal that fetches something, especially a dog trained to retrieve.
- He hired a fetcher to bring supplies from the warehouse.
- The Labrador is an excellent fetcher of tennis balls.
- The puppy was a natural fetcher from the very first game.
- (computing) A component or program that retrieves data from a source.
- This data fetcher pulls information from multiple databases.
- The email fetcher downloads messages from the server.
- The web fetcher collects pages for offline reading.