Web Scraping vs Web Crawling: What’s the Real Difference and When to Use Each? or Web Scraping vs Web

Fun fact: Google’s original algo was basically a crawler. Now *that’s* scale.

For web scraping vs web crawling, I’d say:

- Need links? Crawl (try Heritrix).
- Need data? Scrape (check out PyQuery).

But yeah, OP’s right—combo is often key.