lol the web scraping vs web crawling debate is like asking if you need a car or a bike. Depends on where you’re going!
Need data from a handful of sites? Scrape it with something like ParseHub or even a simple Python script.
But if you’re trying to index a whole website or follow links (like building a search engine), then yeah, you’ll need a crawler.
Pro tip: If you’re just starting, don’t overthink it. Scraping is way easier to learn first.
Need data from a handful of sites? Scrape it with something like ParseHub or even a simple Python script.
But if you’re trying to index a whole website or follow links (like building a search engine), then yeah, you’ll need a crawler.
Pro tip: If you’re just starting, don’t overthink it. Scraping is way easier to learn first.