Harvesting vs Scraping

Harvesting vs Scraping: Building Both Sides in Rust with Ares and Ceres

Two Rust projects, one conceptual divide. Ares fetches arbitrary web pages and uses LLMs to extract structured data; Ceres harvests metadata from CKAN portals and indexes it semantically. Together they show what it looks like to move from scraping scripts to production data pipelines.

February 20, 2026 · 14 min · 2907 words · Andrea Bozzo