The invention provides a content crawling method and device. The content crawling method comprises the steps of creating a plurality of crawling processes according to addresses of a plurality of to-be-crawled websites; when the crawling result of the crawling process is a network address, writing the network address into one of a plurality of address queues corresponding to the address type according to the address type of the network address, creating a crawling process corresponding to the address type according to the address queue, and repeating the previous step until the crawling resultis preset content. According to the content crawling method provided by the invention, the load pressure can be balanced, and the crawling range extension difficulty is reduced.