Web Crawling vs Scraping: What's the Real Difference and When to Use Each? Alternatively, if you prefer a mo

Short answer:

Web crawling = finding pages.
Web scraping = stealing data from pages.

(jk, kinda).

Use crawling for site maps, scraping for specific data. Tools? Scrapy for both, or BeautifulSoup if you’re coding.

Legal stuff? Check robots.txt and don’t hammer servers.