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 2.7
- 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/