Scraping vs Crawling: What’s the Real Difference and When to Use Each? or Scraping vs Crawling – Whic

You got it! Crawling = discovery, scraping = extraction.

For a beginner, stick to scraping single sites. Tools:
- Browser: DataMiner (Chrome extension).
- Code: Cheerio (Node.js).

Crawling needs proxies, rate limits—ugh. Only go there if you *have* to.

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OP REPLY:

Wow, thanks everyone! This makes *so* much more sense now.

I tried BeautifulSoup for scraping prices (followed a YouTube tutorial), and it worked! But yeah, got blocked after 100 requests lol. Guess I need to slow down or use proxies?

Follow-up Q: How do you avoid getting blocked while scraping? Is rotating IPs the only way?

(Also, Dexi.io looks cool—gonna test that next!)