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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.

How do I use the Python Scrapy module to list all the URLs from my website?

I want to use the Python Scrapy module to scrape all the URLs from my website and write the list …

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fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'basetsd.h'

So i have been trying to install Scrapy for Python for the last couple of days. Trying anything i could …

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How to scrape PDFs using Python; specific content only

I am trying to get data from PDFs available on the site https://usda.library.cornell.edu/concern/publications/3t945…

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How to install libxml2 in virtualenv?

I have virtualenv with --no-site-packages option. I'm using scrapy in it. Scrapy uses libxml2 by import libxml2. How to install …

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Scrapy throws ImportError: cannot import name xmlrpc_client

After install Scrapy via pip, and having Python 2.7.10: scrapy Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/scrapy", line 7, …

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How to generate the start_urls dynamically in crawling?

I am crawling a site which may contain a lot of start_urls, like: http://www.a.com/list_1_2_3.htm …

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How to access scrapy settings from item Pipeline

How do I access the scrapy settings in settings.py from the item pipeline. The documentation mentions it can be …

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how to filter duplicate requests based on url in scrapy

I am writing a crawler for a website using scrapy with CrawlSpider. Scrapy provides an in-built duplicate-request filter which filters …

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Run a Scrapy spider in a Celery Task

This is not working anymore, scrapy's API has changed. Now the documentation feature a way to "Run Scrapy from a …

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scraping the file with html saved in local system

For example i had a site "www.example.com" Actually i want to scrape the html of this site by …

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