What’s the Real Difference Between Scraping vs Crawling? Which One Should You Use? *(Alternatively, if you p

Honestly, the line between scraping vs crawling blurs sometimes.

Crawling = discovering pages (Googlebot style).
Scraping = extracting data from those pages.

If you need structured data (e.g., reviews), scraping’s your friend. For site-wide analysis, crawling’s better.

Tools? Scrapy for scraping, Screaming Frog for crawling. And yeah, getting blocked is a rite of passage lol.