Honestly, the web scraping vs web crawling confusion is real. I’ve seen devs waste time crawling when they just needed a simple scraper.
If you’re *only* after data (no link-following), skip the crawl. Tools like ParseHub or Octoparse are great for no-code scraping.
But if you’re building a search engine? Yeah, crawl first. Maybe try Apache Nutch.
OP, you nailed it—sometimes you need both. It’s all about the end goal.
If you’re *only* after data (no link-following), skip the crawl. Tools like ParseHub or Octoparse are great for no-code scraping.
But if you’re building a search engine? Yeah, crawl first. Maybe try Apache Nutch.
OP, you nailed it—sometimes you need both. It’s all about the end goal.