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Scrapy, a fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework for Python.

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Scrapy

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Overview

Scrapy is a fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling 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: http://scrapy.org

Requirements

  • Python 2.6 or up
  • Works on Linux, Windows, Mac OSX, BSD

Install

The quick way:

pip install scrapy

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

Releases

You can download the latest stable and development releases from: http://scrapy.org/download/

Documentation

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

Community (blog, twitter, mail list, IRC)

See http://scrapy.org/community/

Contributing

See http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/contributing.html

Companies using Scrapy

See http://scrapy.org/companies/

Commercial Support

See http://scrapy.org/support/