Web scraping vs web crawling? Think of it like this:
- Crawling = walking through a library and noting down all the book titles.
- Scraping = opening a specific book and copying a paragraph you need.
If you already know the URLs, just scrape. If you need to *find* the URLs first, then crawl.
For tools, I’d say:
- Scraping: Try Octoparse (no-code) or Puppeteer (JavaScript).
- Crawling: Scrapy or Screaming Frog (for smaller projects).
Hope that helps!
- Crawling = walking through a library and noting down all the book titles.
- Scraping = opening a specific book and copying a paragraph you need.
If you already know the URLs, just scrape. If you need to *find* the URLs first, then crawl.
For tools, I’d say:
- Scraping: Try Octoparse (no-code) or Puppeteer (JavaScript).
- Crawling: Scrapy or Screaming Frog (for smaller projects).
Hope that helps!