You got it right! Web crawling vs scraping is all about discovery vs extraction.
For your project, if the product pages are already known, just scrape. No need to overcomplicate it.
But if you’re starting from scratch, you’ll need a crawler to find those pages first.
Legal stuff: Public data is usually fair game, but some sites get salty. Use proxies and rotate user agents to avoid bans.
Tools: Scrapy, Puppeteer, or even Apify if you want a no-code option.
For your project, if the product pages are already known, just scrape. No need to overcomplicate it.
But if you’re starting from scratch, you’ll need a crawler to find those pages first.
Legal stuff: Public data is usually fair game, but some sites get salty. Use proxies and rotate user agents to avoid bans.
Tools: Scrapy, Puppeteer, or even Apify if you want a no-code option.