Traditional Web Crawling Vs LLM Agents: Choosing The Right Approach
Traditional web crawling & scraping are being replaced by Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT, offering dynamic adaptability & multi-tasking capabilities, but at a high computational cost & limited precision.
Web crawling and scraping are essential for gathering structured data from the internet. Traditional techniques have dominated the field for years, but the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s GPT has introduced a new paradigm. Let’s explore the differences, advantages, and drawbacks of these approaches. Traditional Web Crawling & Scraping How It Works: Traditional approaches rely on: Code-driven frameworks like Scrapy, Beautiful Soup, and Selenium. Parsing HTML structures using CSS selectors, XPath, or regular expressions. Rule-based logic for task automation...