What’s the difference between web scraping and web crawling?

[Ezio Ougein]

Web scraping is focused on extracting specific data from websites rather than indexing entire sites.

[Eliza Naeema]

Crawlers usually respect robots.txt, while scrapers may sometimes ignore it to extract the data needed.

[Pietronella Tia]

Scraping usually involves parsing HTML to retrieve specific content, while crawling might just be about discovering URLs.

[Najoua Piotr]

Crawlers are often part of larger indexing projects, like Googlebot, while scrapers are built for specific use cases, like price monitoring.