Honestly, the line between web scraping and crawling blurs sometimes.
I use both for my job—crawl to find URLs, then scrape the data.
For tools:
- Crawling: Apache Nutch (old but reliable)
- Scraping: PyQuery (like BeautifulSoup but with jQuery syntax)
Big sites? Rotate proxies or get wrecked.
I use both for my job—crawl to find URLs, then scrape the data.
For tools:
- Crawling: Apache Nutch (old but reliable)
- Scraping: PyQuery (like BeautifulSoup but with jQuery syntax)
Big sites? Rotate proxies or get wrecked.
