"Web Scraping vs Crawling – Which One Should I Use for My Project?"
Hey everyone! I'm kinda new to this whole data extraction thing and keep seeing "web scraping vs crawling" pop up everywhere. But tbh, I'm still confused about the difference.
From what I gather, web crawling is like a spider (lol) that just goes through pages to index them—think Googlebot. But web scraping is more about grabbing specific data, like prices or reviews, from those pages.
So for my project, I need to collect product info from a bunch of sites. Should I use crawling or scraping? Or both? And like... how do they even work together?
Any simple explanations or examples would be awesome! Thanks in advance, y'all.
(Also, sorry if this has been asked a million times—I did try searching but still lost 😅)
Hey everyone! I'm kinda new to this whole data extraction thing and keep seeing "web scraping vs crawling" pop up everywhere. But tbh, I'm still confused about the difference.
From what I gather, web crawling is like a spider (lol) that just goes through pages to index them—think Googlebot. But web scraping is more about grabbing specific data, like prices or reviews, from those pages.
So for my project, I need to collect product info from a bunch of sites. Should I use crawling or scraping? Or both? And like... how do they even work together?
Any simple explanations or examples would be awesome! Thanks in advance, y'all.
(Also, sorry if this has been asked a million times—I did try searching but still lost 😅)