Great question! Scraping vs crawling can be super confusing at first.
If you just need product prices, scraping is totally enough—no need to overcomplicate it with crawling. Tools like BeautifulSoup or Scrapy (Python) are perfect for that.
But if you wanna map a whole site’s structure, crawling makes more sense. Think of it like building a sitemap—you’d use something like Scrapy’s CrawlSpider or even Screaming Frog for smaller sites.
Real-world example? I used scraping to grab hotel prices but switched to crawling when I needed to find all the pages on a travel site.
If you just need product prices, scraping is totally enough—no need to overcomplicate it with crawling. Tools like BeautifulSoup or Scrapy (Python) are perfect for that.
But if you wanna map a whole site’s structure, crawling makes more sense. Think of it like building a sitemap—you’d use something like Scrapy’s CrawlSpider or even Screaming Frog for smaller sites.
Real-world example? I used scraping to grab hotel prices but switched to crawling when I needed to find all the pages on a travel site.