Software:Scrapy
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| Developer(s) | Zyte (formerly Scrapinghub) |
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| Initial release | 26 June 2008 |
| Written in | Python |
| Operating system | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Type | Web crawler |
| License | BSD License |
Scrapy (/ˈskreɪpaɪ/[1] SKRAY-peye) is a free and open-source web-crawling framework written in Python. Originally designed for web scraping, it can also be used to extract data using APIs or as a general-purpose web crawler.[2] It is currently maintained by Zyte (formerly Scrapinghub), a web-scraping development and services company.
Scrapy project architecture is built around "spiders", which are self-contained crawlers that are given a set of instructions. Following the spirit of other don't repeat yourself frameworks, such as Django,[3] it makes it easier to build and scale large crawling projects by allowing developers to reuse their code.
Some well-known companies and products using Scrapy are: Lyst,[4][5] Parse.ly,[6] Sayone Technologies,[7] Sciences Po Medialab,[8] Data.gov.uk’s World Government Data site.[9]
History
Scrapy was born at London-based web-aggregation and e-commerce company Mydeco, where it was developed and maintained by employees of Mydeco and Insophia (a web-consulting company based in Montevideo, Uruguay). The first public release was in August 2008 under the BSD license, with a milestone 1.0 release happening in June 2015.[10] In 2011, Zyte (formerly Scrapinghub) became the new official maintainer.[11][12]
References
- ↑ Commit 975f150
- ↑ Scrapy at a glance.
- ↑ "Frequently Asked Questions" (in en-US). http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/faq.html#did-scrapy-steal-x-from-django.
- ↑ Bell, Eddie; Heusser, Jonathan. "Scalable Scraping Using Machine Learning". http://talks.lystit.com/dsl-scraping-presentation/#/4.
- ↑ Scrapy | Companies using Scrapy
- ↑ Montalenti, Andrew (October 27, 2012). "Web Crawling & Metadata Extraction in Python" (in en-US). https://speakerdeck.com/amontalenti/web-crawling-and-metadata-extraction-in-python.
- ↑ "Scrapy Companies". https://scrapy.org/companies/.
- ↑ Hyphe v0.0.0: the first release of our new webcrawler is out!
- ↑ Ben Firshman [@bfirsh] (21 January 2010). "World Govt Data site uses Django, Solr, Haystack, Scrapy and other exciting buzzwords bit.ly/5jU3La #opendata #datastore". https://twitter.com/bfirsh/status/8025368963.
- ↑ Medina, Julia (19 June 2015). "Scrapy 1.0 official release out!". scrapy-users (Mailing list).
- ↑ Hoffman, Pablo (2013) (in en-US). List of the primary authors & contributors. https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/blob/master/AUTHORS. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
- ↑ Interview Scraping Hub.
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