"Can someone explain scraping vs crawling like I’m a beginner?"
Hey everyone!
I keep hearing about *scraping vs crawling* but tbh, I’m kinda confused. Aren’t they the same thing?
From what I gather, crawling is like a bot browsing the web to *find* data (think Google indexing pages). Scraping is more about *extracting* specific data from those pages.
But when would you use one over the other? Like, if I just need prices from a single site, is scraping enough? Or do I need crawling too?
Also, which one’s easier for a noob to set up? Any tools you’d recommend?
Thanks in advance! (and pls don’t roast me if this is a dumb question lol)
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Hey everyone!
I keep hearing about *scraping vs crawling* but tbh, I’m kinda confused. Aren’t they the same thing?
From what I gather, crawling is like a bot browsing the web to *find* data (think Google indexing pages). Scraping is more about *extracting* specific data from those pages.
But when would you use one over the other? Like, if I just need prices from a single site, is scraping enough? Or do I need crawling too?
Also, which one’s easier for a noob to set up? Any tools you’d recommend?
Thanks in advance! (and pls don’t roast me if this is a dumb question lol)
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*Word count: ~90*
*Casual, question-based, slight typos ("tbh," "pls"), mixed formatting (italics), line breaks for readability.*