OP Reply:
Wow, thanks everyone! This totally clears up the web scraping vs web crawling confusion for me. I think I’ll start with scraping since I already know the sites I need data from.
Gonna try BeautifulSoup first—seems beginner-friendly.
Quick follow-up: Anyone have tips for avoiding getting blocked while scraping? Heard some sites don’t like bots, even for simple stuff.
Y’all are legends! 🙌
Wow, thanks everyone! This totally clears up the web scraping vs web crawling confusion for me. I think I’ll start with scraping since I already know the sites I need data from.
Gonna try BeautifulSoup first—seems beginner-friendly.
Quick follow-up: Anyone have tips for avoiding getting blocked while scraping? Heard some sites don’t like bots, even for simple stuff.
Y’all are legends! 🙌