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“” - proxyDriftX77 - 15-04-2025

Simple way to think of it:

Crawling = "What’s out there?"
Scraping = "Give me this exact thing."

For scraping, I love BeautifulSoup. For crawling, Screaming Frog is gold.

And lol, getting blocked is basically a badge of honor at this point.