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Beautiful Soup and Scrapy Crawler are used for doing web scraping in Python. Both of these tools have the same use case but have different functionalities. Web scraping is useful in data collection and analysis in fields like research, marketing, and business intelligence. In this article, we will understand the difference between Beautiful Soup and Scrapy Crawler and how they are used in web scraping. Feature Beautiful Soup Scrapy Parsing Used for parsing HTML and XML documents Uses a combination of parsing and crawling to extract data from websites. Ease of Use Simple ... Read More

Scrapy spiderScrapy spider is a class which provides the facility to follow the links of a website and extract the information from the webpages.This is the main class from which other spiders must inherit.ScrapinghubScrapinghub is an open source application to run Scrapy spiders. Scrapinghub turns web content into some useful data or information. It allows us to extract the data from webpages, even for complex webpages.We are going to use scrapinghub to deploy scrapy spiders on cloud and execute it.Steps to deploy spiders on scrapinghub −Step1 −Create one scrapy project −After installing scrapy, just run the following command in your ... Read More

One of the best frameworks for developing crawlers is scrapy. Scrapy is a popular web scraping and crawling framework utilizing high-level functionality to make scraping websites easier.Installation Installing scrapy in windows is easy: we can use either pip or conda(if you have anaconda). Scrapy runs on both python 2 and 3 versions.pip install ScrapyOrconda install –c conda-forge scrapyIf Scrapy is installed correctly, a scrapy command will now be available in the terminal −C:\Users\rajesh>scrapy Scrapy 1.6.0 - no active project Usage: scrapy [options] [args] Available commands: bench    Run quick benchmark test fetch    Fetch a URL using the ... Read More