Scrapy is a python library that help you to scrape website data at ease
Use the package manager pip to install foobar.
pip install scrapy
- With great support of a Webinar from Prateek Sir by CodingBlocks i was able to scrape data of a e-commerce website "Flipkart".
- I took a webpage and extracted all product_price, product_name, product_rating upto 5 pages.
- Scraped data is then store in .json, .csv or .xml file and can be used for any purpose.
- Scrapy does all the hard work for us, while we just type few lines of code.
- code consist of the website-url we want to fetch data and css-selectors which contains our data.
- Then using Scrapy command line tools we can start our website scraping.
- On more details on how Scrapy works can be found here.
- Get your all classmates semester marks at one click.(if your university uploads marks at a websites protal)
- Scraping Amazon for specific category of books.
- This method is used in populor serch engines to get relavent pages to your search result