Scraping vs Crawling: What’s the Real Difference and When Should You Use Each? Alternatively, if you want so

Scraping = extracting data. Crawling = discovering pages. Simple as that.

For prices, scraping tools like ParseHub or even simple browser extensions (e.g., Data Miner) work fine.

But if you’re trying to see how a site links internally, crawling is your friend. Check out Apache Nutch if you’re hardcore.

Pro tip: Sometimes you crawl first, then scrape the pages you find. Best of both worlds!