Top "Scrapy" questions

Scrapy is a fast open-source high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework written in Python used to crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages.

Access Django models with scrapy: defining path to Django project

I'm very new to Python and Django. I'm currently exploring using Scrapy to scrape sites and save data to the …

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Installing package dependencies for Scrapy

So among the many packages users need to install for Scrapy, I think I'm having trouble with pyOpenSSL. When I …

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Set headers for scrapy shell request

I know that you can scrapy shell -s USER_AGENT='custom user agent' 'http://www.example.com' to change the …

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CrawlerProcess vs CrawlerRunner

Scrapy 1.x documentation explains that there are two ways to run a Scrapy spider from a script: using CrawlerProcess using …

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How can I make scrapy crawl break and exit when encountering the first exception?

For development purposes, I would like to stop all scrapy crawling activity as soon a first exception (in a spider …

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Access django models inside of Scrapy

Is it possible to access my django models inside of a Scrapy pipeline, so that I can save my scraped …

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how to implement nested item in scrapy?

I am scraping some data with complex hierarchical info and need to export the result to json. I defined the …

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Crawling LinkedIn while authenticated with Scrapy

So I've read through the Crawling with an authenticated session in Scrapy and I am getting hung up, I am 99% …

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Scrapy, Python: Multiple Item Classes in one pipeline?

I have a Spider that scrapes data which cannot be saved in one item class. For illustration, I have one …

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How do I merge results from target page to current page in scrapy?

Need example in scrapy on how to get a link from one page, then follow this link, get more info …

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