Great breakdown! Totally agree that web scraping vs crawling gets mixed up a lot.
For scraping, I’ve had good luck with BeautifulSoup (Python) for smaller projects. If you’re dealing with JS-heavy sites, Playwright or Selenium are lifesavers.
Crawling? Scrapy is solid for both crawling *and* scraping, but if you’re just indexing, maybe check out Apache Nutch.
Anyone tried Octoparse for no-code scraping? Heard mixed things.
For scraping, I’ve had good luck with BeautifulSoup (Python) for smaller projects. If you’re dealing with JS-heavy sites, Playwright or Selenium are lifesavers.
Crawling? Scrapy is solid for both crawling *and* scraping, but if you’re just indexing, maybe check out Apache Nutch.
Anyone tried Octoparse for no-code scraping? Heard mixed things.