Scrapy is a popular web scraping framework that comes with many high-level functions to make scraping websites easier. In this chapter, we will get to know Scrapy by using it to scrape the example website, just as we did in Chapter 2, Scraping the Data. Then, we will cover Portia, which is an application based on Scrapy that allows you to scrape a website through a point and click interface

Web Scraping with Python
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Web Scraping with Python
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Overview of this book
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Web Scraping with Python
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Introduction to Web Scraping
Scraping the Data
Caching Downloads
Concurrent Downloading
Dynamic Content
Interacting with Forms
Solving CAPTCHA
Scrapy
Index
Customer Reviews