Web Scraping vs Web Crawling: What’s the Difference and When to Use Each? Alternatively, if you prefer a mor

The web scraping vs web crawling debate is wild because both are useful but for totally different things.

Scraping:
- Extracting data from a few pages (e.g., stock prices).
- Tools: BeautifulSoup, Selenium.

Crawling:
- Indexing entire sites (e.g., building a custom search engine).
- Tools: Scrapy, Heritrix.

Pro tip: Always check robots.txt unless you wanna get blocked.