Scrapy - Web Scraping Framework Tool
Open-source Python framework for fast, scalable web crawling and scraping.
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Use Scrapy to build structured web crawlers and data pipelines efficiently. Built around reusable ‘spiders’, Scrapy handles HTTP, concurrency, parsing via CSS/XPath selectors, and export to formats like JSON or CSV. It integrates into CI systems, supports middlewares, and scales smoothly for large projects. Ideal for developers, data engineers, researchers, and teams needing reliable extraction of structured data from websites or APIs.
Use Cases
Building scalable web scrapers for ecommerce or research
Extracting and exporting structured data from websites
Monitoring competitor pricing or content changes
Feeding scraped data into analytics or ML pipelines
Automating data pipelines in CI/CD workflows
Standardising scraping with reusable spider modules
Integrations
Twisted engine,CSS selectors, XPath,Downloader middleware,Scheduler and Spider middleware,Feed exporters (JSON, CSV, XML),CI/CD tools via pipelines,Extensions via plugins,Community add-ons (Spidermon, Frontera)
Standout Features
Highly concurrent async crawling
Structured spider-based projects
Pluggable middleware architecture
Support for CSS/XPath parsing
Flexible data export options
Strong open-source community
Who is it for?
Software Engineer, Data Engineer, Web Developer, Researcher, DevOps Engineer
Tasks it helps with
Crawl websites asynchronously using spiders
Parse HTML using CSS selectors or XPath
Manage concurrency for large-scale scraping
Use middleware for custom request/response handling
Export structured data to JSON, CSV, XML, databases
Integrate scraping into CI/CD pipelines
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