Scrapy

Overview

Scrapy is a fast high-level web crawling and web scraping framework, used to crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages. It can be used for a wide range of purposes, from data mining to monitoring and automated testing.

Scrapy is maintained by Zyte (formerly Scrapinghub) and many other contributors.

Check the Scrapy homepage at https://scrapy.org for more information, including a list of features.

Requirements

• Python 3.6+
• Works on Linux, Windows, macOS, BSD

Install

The quick way:

pip install scrapy

See the install section in the documentation at https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/intro/install.html for more details.

Documentation

Documentation is available online at https://docs.scrapy.org/ and in the docs directory.

Releases

You can check https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/news.html for the release notes.

Community (blog, twitter, mail list, IRC)

See https://scrapy.org/community/ for details.

Contributing

See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/master/contributing.html for details.

Code of Conduct

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct (see https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).

By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms. Please report unacceptable behavior to opensource@zyte.com.

Companies using Scrapy

See https://scrapy.org/companies/ for a list.

Commercial Support

See https://scrapy.org/support/ for details.