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

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Web crawling vs scraping is like exploring vs stealing candy from a store.

Crawling = walking through aisles (indexing). Scraping = grabbing the candy (data).

For prices, scraping’s enough—try Import.io. For site structure, crawl with Heritrix.

Legal? Some sites will block you, others won’t. Just don’t break things.

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