The Scrapy tutorial course part I: How to get started with web scraping using Scrapy

Developed by Pablo Hoffman and Shane Evans, Scrapy is an open source python framework built specifically for web data extraction. With Scrapy spiders, you are able to download HTML, parse and process the data, and save it in either CSV, JSON or XML file formats.

This video covers the basics of web scraping using your web browser, Scrapy shell and CSS selectors.

After watching this, you will know:

• How to identify the data via browser's "inspect element" tool
• How to build CSS selectors using Scrapy Shell

If you like what you saw, we can recommend you to also check out the links below:

• The Scrapy tutorial course part II: How to create your first Scrapy spider
• The Scrapy tutorial course part III: How to scrape multiple items per page
• Scrapy tutorial
• The 30 CSS selectors you must memorize
• An interactive tutorial on CSS selectors