Implementing concurrency in web scraping projects can significantly reduce scraping time from hours to minutes or seconds.
Concurrency is particularly effective in web scraping as it is primarily I/O-bound, and the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) in Python is not a significant limitation for I/O-bound tasks.
Python offers libraries like asyncio, aiohttp, concurrent.futures, multiprocesssing, and Scrapy for implementing concurrency in web scraping.
To avoid issues in concurrent scraping, it is important to control and manage concurrency, handle errors properly, debug asynchronous code, and be respectful to websites by following scraping best practices.