Scrapy: Powerful Web Scraping & Crawling with Python

Python Scrapy Tutorial – Learn how to scrape websites and build a powerful web crawler using Scrapy, Splash and Python

What you’ll learn

Creating a web crawler in Scrapy
Crawling a single or multiple pages and scrape data
Deploying & Scheduling Spiders to ScrapingHub
Logging into Websites with Scrapy
Running Scrapy as a Standalone Script
Integrating Splash with Scrapy to scrape JavaScript rendered websites
Using Scrapy with Selenium in Special Cases, e.g. to Scrape JavaScript Driven Web Pages
Building Scrapy Advanced Spider
More functions that Scrapy offers after Spider is Done with Scraping
Editing and Using Scrapy Parameters
Exporting data extracted by Scrapy into CSV, Excel, XML, or JSON files
Storing data extracted by Scrapy into MySQL and MongoDB databases
Several real-life web scraping projects, including Craigslist, LinkedIn and many others
Python source code for all exercises in this Scrapy tutorial can be downloaded
Q&A board to send your questions and get them answered quickly

Python Level: Intermediate. This Scrapy tutorial assumes that you already know the basics of writing simple Python programs and that you are generally familiar with Python’s core features (data structures, file handling, functions, classes, modules, common libraries, etc.).
Python 2.7+ or Python 3.3+
Any operating system (Linux, Mac, Windows) is good.
Positiveness and willingness to learn new things and to ask questions (if any) at the Q&A board of the course.
If you do not know what Scrapy is or why you should use it, please read the course description and watch the preview lectures BEFORE joining the course.

This Scrapy tutorial is meant for those who are familiar with Python and want to learn how to create an efficient web crawler and scraper to navigate through websites and scrape content from pages that contain useful information.
NEW Update: This Scrapy course now includes a dedicated section about Splash and how to use it with Scrapy to extract data from JavaScript websites.