News Feed Forums General Web Scraping What’s the difference between web scraping and web crawling?

  • Ezio Ougein

    Member
    11/11/2024 at 6:58 am

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

  • Eliza Naeema

    Member
    11/11/2024 at 8:19 am

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

  • Pietronella Tia

    Member
    11/11/2024 at 9:44 am

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

  • Najoua Piotr

    Member
    11/12/2024 at 5:11 am

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

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