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What is the difference between a web crawler and web scraper?
What is the difference between a web crawler and web scraper?
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Written by Josh
Updated over a week ago

Simply put, the main difference between a web crawler and a web scraper is that a crawler goes through pages and clicks on them to create indices or collections, and a web scraper downloads these pages to extract a specific set of data for analysis purposes.

For more in-depth information about the differences between crawling and scraping, check out our extensive blog post.

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