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Getting up and going with the Scrapy library.
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- Scrapy web site
- Scrapy installation guide
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Python has a great module available
which provides a more full-featured way
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to quickly extract data
you need from websites.
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With Scrapy, we write the rules
regarding the data we want extracted and
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let it do the rest.
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Let's get Scrapy installed and
then set up our first spider project.
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Let's look at the Scrapy
installation guide.
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We see that it will run on Python 2.7 and
3.4 and higher,
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and can be installed using conda or
from PyPI with pip.
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