Web scraping vs web crawling is all about intent.
Crawling = "I need to find stuff."
Scraping = "I need to get stuff."
If you’re pulling data from a few known pages, scraping tools like BeautifulSoup or even Excel Power Query (yes, really!) work.
For crawling, Scrapy is solid, but tbh, most people overestimate how much they need it. Unless you’re building a search engine, scraping is usually enough.
Crawling = "I need to find stuff."
Scraping = "I need to get stuff."
If you’re pulling data from a few known pages, scraping tools like BeautifulSoup or even Excel Power Query (yes, really!) work.
For crawling, Scrapy is solid, but tbh, most people overestimate how much they need it. Unless you’re building a search engine, scraping is usually enough.