Web scraping using Scrapy

We have learned about, explored, and used different Python libraries for web scraping in the current and previous chapters. Scrapy is one of the few open source web crawling frameworks written in Python that allows dynamic adaptation, a project-based scope, and modular extensibility for web scraping tasks.

As per Scrapy’s official website, https://scrapy.org/, it is simple, fast, collaborative, and yet extensible. Scrapy was previously maintained by Scrapinghub, but now it is maintained by Zyte (https://www.zyte.com/) and some other contributors.

Listed here are a few important features that make Scrapy popular and make it stand out among the Python web crawling frameworks:

• Built-in support for parsing, traversing, XPath, CSS selectors, and regex
• Handles HTTP requests and responses using built-in libraries
• Modular structure and components allow developers to focus on a specific task and manage coding collaboratively
• Provides...