Great question! Scraping vs crawling can be confusing at first. Think of crawling as the "discovery" phase—like a spider moving through links to find pages. Scraping is the "extraction" part where you pull out the data you need.
If you just need data from a few known sites, scraping alone might be enough (try BeautifulSoup or Scrapy). But if you need to find new pages or links first, you’ll need a crawler (like Scrapy’s built-in crawler or Apache Nutch).
Real-world example: Google uses crawling to find pages, then scraping (or parsing) to index their content.
If you just need data from a few known sites, scraping alone might be enough (try BeautifulSoup or Scrapy). But if you need to find new pages or links first, you’ll need a crawler (like Scrapy’s built-in crawler or Apache Nutch).
Real-world example: Google uses crawling to find pages, then scraping (or parsing) to index their content.