/scrapy_python

scrapy_python

Primary LanguagePython

Scrapy

Installation

    sudo apt-get install python-dev
sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo pip install Scrapy

Source Code of Scrapy : https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy

Examples

  • hello_world
    This is the hello world example for scrapy. In this example we simple create a spider and craw a website and print its contents onto the screen.
  • basic_spider
    This is a simple one page parser that generates a csv file out of it.
  • recursive-spider
    This is a recursiver scrapper which navigates through the link and scrapes each and every page and outputs the scrapped doc into csv document.
  • linkedin-crawler
    This is a linkedin crawler that craws the linkedin public directory. Currently this is in development phase. This execution of the crawler generates the XML file with utf-8 encoding.

How to Execute

  1. Download the repository git clone https://github.com/arpitbbhayani/scrapy_python.git
  2. Install scrapy and setup your machine sudo apt-get install python-dev sudo apt-get install python-pip sudo pip install Scrapy
  3. Execute a spider hello-world scrapy runspider scrapy_python/hello_world/hello_world/spiders/hello_world_spider.py
  • b. basic-spider scrapy runspider scrapy_python/basic_spider/basic_spider/spiders/BasicSpider.py
  • c. recursive-spider scrapy runspider scrapy_python/recursive_spider/recursive_spider/spiders/BasicSpider.py
  • d. linkedin-crawler scrapy runspider scrapy_python/linkedin_crawler/linkedin_crawler/spiders/LinkedInSpider.py

Tutorials

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