They’re totally different! Crawling is about *finding* pages (like Googlebot), while scraping is about *taking* data from those pages (like pulling product reviews).
If you know the exact URLs, just scrape. No need to crawl. Tools like BeautifulSoup (Python) or Puppeteer (JS) are great for scraping.
But if you’re exploring a site with tons of links (like Wikipedia), you’ll need a crawler first. Scrapy does both, btw.
If you know the exact URLs, just scrape. No need to crawl. Tools like BeautifulSoup (Python) or Puppeteer (JS) are great for scraping.
But if you’re exploring a site with tons of links (like Wikipedia), you’ll need a crawler first. Scrapy does both, btw.