Yes, BeautifulSoup is focused on parsing not crawling (BS supports the lxml parser out of the box). Scrapy is more of an opinionated scraping framework whereas

Yes, BeautifulSoup is focused on parsing not crawling (BS supports the lxml parser out of the box). Scrapy is more of an opinionated scraping framework whereas BS is a parsing library for scraping. I think the choice depends on what exactly you're trying to build and scale. I like both personally, though I'd use BS for simple MVPs and Scrapy if I wanted to crawl thousands of pages.