Scraping vs Crawling – Which One Do You Actually Need for Your Project?
Hey everyone, been digging into this whole scraping vs crawling thing and tbh, it's a bit confusing at first.
Like, crawling seems to be about browsing and indexing pages (think Googlebot), while scraping is more about pulling specific data from those pages. But when do you actually use one over the other?
If I just need to collect product prices from a few sites, is scraping enough? Or if I wanna map out an entire website’s structure, do I *need* crawling?
Kinda feels like they overlap sometimes. Anyone got real-world examples where you picked one over the other? Or maybe you used both together?
Also, any tools you’d recommend for either? Cheers!
Hey everyone, been digging into this whole scraping vs crawling thing and tbh, it's a bit confusing at first.
Like, crawling seems to be about browsing and indexing pages (think Googlebot), while scraping is more about pulling specific data from those pages. But when do you actually use one over the other?
If I just need to collect product prices from a few sites, is scraping enough? Or if I wanna map out an entire website’s structure, do I *need* crawling?
Kinda feels like they overlap sometimes. Anyone got real-world examples where you picked one over the other? Or maybe you used both together?
Also, any tools you’d recommend for either? Cheers!