Great question! Web crawling vs scraping can be confusing at first, but they’re totally different beasts.
Crawling is like sending a bot to explore and index pages (think Google). Scraping is about extracting specific data from those pages.
If you just need product prices, scraping alone is fine—no need for a crawler unless the site has dynamic links. Tools like BeautifulSoup or Scrapy (Python) work great for scraping.
Pro tip: Check the site’s robots.txt before scraping to avoid trouble.
Crawling is like sending a bot to explore and index pages (think Google). Scraping is about extracting specific data from those pages.
If you just need product prices, scraping alone is fine—no need for a crawler unless the site has dynamic links. Tools like BeautifulSoup or Scrapy (Python) work great for scraping.
Pro tip: Check the site’s robots.txt before scraping to avoid trouble.