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.

For more information including a list of features check the Scrapy homepage at: https://scrapy.org

Requirements

• Python 2.7 or Python 3.4+
• Works on Linux, Windows, Mac OSX, BSD

Install

The quick way:

pip install scrapy

For more details see the install section in the documentation: https://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/intro/install.html

Documentation

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

Releases

You can find release notes at https://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/news.html

Community (blog, twitter, mail list, IRC)

See https://scrapy.org/community/

Contributing

See https://doc.scrapy.org/en/master/contributing.html

Companies using Scrapy

See https://scrapy.org/companies/

Commercial Support

See https://scrapy.org/support/