tldr/pages/common/scrapy.md

scrapy

Web-crawling framework.

• Create a project:

scrapy startproject {{project_name}}

• Create a spider (in project directory):

scrapy genspider {{spider_name}} {{website_domain}}

• Edit spider (in project directory):

scrapy edit {{spider_name}}

• Run spider (in project directory):

scrapy crawl {{spider_name}}

• Fetch a webpage as scrapy sees it and print source in stdout:

scrapy fetch {{url}}

• Open a webpage in the default browser as scrapy sees it (disable javascript for extra fidelity):

scrapy view {{url}}

• Open scrapy shell for url, which allows interaction with the page source in python shell (or ipython if available):

scrapy shell {{url}}