What's the Difference Between Web Crawling vs Scraping? Need Help Understanding! or Web Crawling vs S

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Web crawling vs scraping is a common confusion. Crawling is about indexing pages, scraping is about pulling data from them.

For your project, if you already have the URLs, skip crawling. Otherwise, you’ll need both.

Legality is tricky. Some sites allow scraping, others don’t. Always check robots.txt and terms of service.

Tools: Scrapy for crawling + scraping, or BeautifulSoup for lighter tasks.

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