README.rst

Scrapy

Overview

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

Requirements

• Python 2.7 or Python 3.4+
• Works on Linux, Windows, Mac OSX, BSD

Install

The quick way:

pip install scrapy

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

Documentation

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

Releases

You can find release notes at https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/news.html

Community (blog, twitter, mail list, IRC)

See https://scrapy.org/community/

Contributing

See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/master/contributing.html

Code of Conduct

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct (see https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).

By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms. Please report unacceptable behavior to opensource@scrapinghub.com.

Companies using Scrapy

See https://scrapy.org/companies/

Commercial Support

See https://scrapy.org/support/