Awesome Scrapy

A curated list of awesome packages, articles, and other cool resources from the Scrapy community. Scrapy is a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.

Table of Contents

• Apps
  • Visual Web Scraping
  • Distributed Spider
  • Scrapy Service
  • Monitor
  • Avoid Ban
  • Data Processing
  • Process Javascript
  • Other Useful Extensions
• Resources
  • Articles
  • Exercises
  • Video
  • Book

Apps

Visual Web Scraping

• Portia Visual scraping for Scrapy

Distributed Spider

• scrapy-redis Redis-based components for Scrapy.

Scrapy Service

• scrapyscript Run a Scrapy spider programmatically from a script or a Celery task - no project required.

• scrapyd A service daemon to run Scrapy spiders

• scrapyd-client Command line client for Scrapyd server

• python-scrapyd-api A Python wrapper for working with Scrapyd's API.

• SpiderKeeper A scalable admin ui for spider service

• scrapyrt HTTP server which provides API for scheduling Scrapy spiders and making requests with spiders.

Monitor

• scrapy-sentry Logs Scrapy exceptions into Sentry

• scrapy-statsd-middleware Statsd integration middleware for scrapy

• scrapy-jsonrpc An extension to control a running Scrapy web crawler via JSON-RPC

• scrapy-fieldstats A Scrapy extension to log items coverage when the spider shuts down

Avoid Ban

• HttpProxyMiddleware A middleware for scrapy. Used to change HTTP proxy from time to time.

• scrapy-proxies Processes Scrapy requests using a random proxy from list to avoid IP ban and improve crawling speed.

• scrapy-rotating-proxies Use multiple proxies with Scrapy

• scrapy-random-useragent Scrapy Middleware to set a random User-Agent for every Request.

• scrapy-fake-useragent Random User-Agent middleware based on fake-useragent

• scrapy-crawlera Crawlera routes requests through a pool of IPs, throttling access by introducing delays and discarding IPs from the pool when they get banned from certain domains, or have other problems.

Data Processing

• scrapy-elasticsearch A scrapy pipeline which send items to Elastic Search server

• scrapy-mongodb MongoDB pipeline for Scrapy.

• scrapy-s3pipeline Scrapy pipeline to store chunked items into AWS S3 bucket

• scrapy-sqs-exporter Scrapy extension for outputting scraped items to an Amazon SQS instance

• scrapy-kafka-export Scrapy extension which writes crawled items to Kafka

• scrapy-rss-exporter An RSS exporter for Scrapy

Process Javascript

• scrapy-splash Make Scrapy can understand Javascript

Other Useful Extensions

• scrapy-djangoitem Scrapy extension to write scraped items using Django models

• scrapy-deltafetch Scrapy spider middleware to ignore requests to pages containing items seen in previous crawls

• scrapy-crawl-once This package provides a Scrapy middleware which allows to avoid re-crawling pages which were already downloaded in previous crawls.

• scrapy-magicfields Scrapy middleware to add extra fields to items, like timestamp, response fields, spider attributes etc.

• scrapy-pagestorage A scrapy extension to store requests and responses information in storage service.

Resources

Articles

• Scrapy VS Beautiful Soup

• Scrapy VS Selenium

• Web Scraping in Python using Scrapy (with multiple examples)

• Scrapy Tutorial Series: Web Scraping Using Python

• Advanced Web Scraping: Bypassing "403 Forbidden," captchas, and more

Exercises

• Learn and improve web scraping skills with Web Scraping Exercises

Video

• Scrapy: Powerful Web Scraping & Crawling with Python Online courses on Udemy

Book

• Learning Scrapy