scrapy Command Examples

Web-crawling framework. More information: https://scrapy.org.

• 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 the source to 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 a Python shell (or IPython if available):

scrapy shell {{url}}