Scrapy

Not to be confused with Scrapie.
Scrapy
Developer(s)Zyte (formerly Scrapinghub)
Initial release26 June 2008 (2008-06-26)
Stable release
2.11.2[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 14 May 2024; 4 months ago (14 May 2024)
Repository
Written inPython
Operating systemWindows, macOS, Linux
TypeWeb crawler
LicenseBSD License
Websitescrapy.org Edit this on Wikidata

Scrapy (/ˈskreɪpaɪ/[2] SKRAY-peye) is a free and open-source web-crawling framework written in Python. Originally designed for web scraping, it can also be used to extract data using APIs or as a general-purpose web crawler.[3] It is currently maintained by Zyte (formerly Scrapinghub), a web-scraping development and services company.

Scrapy project architecture is built around "spiders", which are self-contained crawlers that are given a set of instructions. Following the spirit of other don't repeat yourself frameworks, such as Django,[4] it makes it easier to build and scale large crawling projects by allowing developers to reuse their code.

Some well-known companies and products using Scrapy are: Lyst,[5][6] Parse.ly,[7] Sayone Technologies,[8] Sciences Po Medialab,[9] Data.gov.uk’s World Government Data site.[10]

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  2. ^ "Commit 975f150". Archived from the original on 2021-10-18. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
  3. ^ Scrapy at a glance Archived 2018-09-17 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ^ "Frequently Asked Questions". Frequently Asked Questions, Scrapy 2.8.0 documentation. Archived from the original on 11 November 2020. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
  5. ^ Bell, Eddie; Heusser, Jonathan. "Scalable Scraping Using Machine Learning". Archived from the original on 4 June 2016. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
  6. ^ "Scrapy | Companies using Scrapy". Archived from the original on 2020-11-12. Retrieved 2015-07-28.
  7. ^ Montalenti, Andrew (October 27, 2012). "Web Crawling & Metadata Extraction in Python". Web Crawling & Metadata Extraction in Python - Speaker Deck. Archived from the original on September 19, 2020. Retrieved May 11, 2015.
  8. ^ "Scrapy Companies". Scrapy | Companies using Scrapy. Archived from the original on 2020-11-12. Retrieved 2017-11-09.
  9. ^ "Hyphe v0.0.0: the first release of our new webcrawler is out!". Archived from the original on 2016-06-13. Retrieved 2015-07-28.
  10. ^ Ben Firshman [@bfirsh] (21 January 2010). "World Govt Data site uses Django, Solr, Haystack, Scrapy and other exciting buzzwords http://bit.ly/5jU3La #opendata #datastore" (Tweet) – via Twitter.