Web Crawling vs. Web Scraping - What is the Difference?

Across the internet, there’s this common debate on whether web crawling and web scraping are the same. Although these processes are quite similar and go hand-in-hand, there’s this key factor differentiating the two.
Simply put, web crawling means going through data and clicking on it. Meanwhile, scraping refers to downloading the said data.
In this video, Gabija, the Product Marketing Team Lead of Oxylabs, goes through the basics of web crawling and web scraping, representing the processes visually. Gabija also talks about the difference between scraping and crawling, finally putting the debate to an end.
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In this web crawling vs web scraping video, we answer the following questions:
0:00 Intro
0:37 How does web crawling work?
1:17 How does web scraping work?
1:24 Web crawling vs. web scraping compared
2:21 Tools for crawling and scraping

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[mercantilism]

The process of searching targeted data is crawling while the process of downloading the data is called scraping

[busterdafydd]

2:22 web scraper in my books is a tool that will make metadata from the page, and so it parses all the body data. web crawler will download the pages while the parser "looks" at the pages and studies them while the web crawler will be more focused at jumping through the next portal

[kingofyoutube]

if girl in video:
return "more views, even if we don't understand"
else:
return "not interested"

[busterdafydd]

0:58 1. data is supposed to be metadata. sometimes websites don't provide very good metadata so you are required to scrape the data to make metadata

[johnmicheal]

That was straight to the point and crystal clear. Thanks.

[OneManCanStopTheMotorOfWorld]

I like your content straight, concise, and to the point ;)

[heatherryan]

What I would like to know is how in the heck did she get so good at writing backwards? You can write backwards better than I can write normally.

[abhikkumarde]

Didn't know Kriti Kharbanda is from Computer Science Background 😱😱😱
Wow...

[abiworldseccentric]

Hey are you writing by left hand also right to left (Reverse) direction, ..! Amazing ...!

[williamlowry]

Awesome Vid. What a cool gal to present the info 🤘🏼

[abdelhakbekheitia]

hi thanks for the video
can i download files from website with Jsoup library
i have a website that contains a lot of pdf files and when i click on document title it open the windows window to select the place to save the file
i want to download all these files with Jsoup
thanks a lot

[bhargavapothakamuri]

The question is, do we need to use both of them for looking and downloading ?

[louislai]

Does anyone realise she's writing in reverse from her perspective? Cool.

[Immanuel]

Might need a web crawlers to get her ig