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Hello world with Scrapy - Python Tutorial
From the course: Web Scraping with Python
Hello world with Scrapy
- [Instructor] Enough talk about web scraping theory. Let's build our first actual scraper. So you should already have Pip installed, which is the Python package installer. If you don't, go get it, review the Python package management, and then come back to this video. But Pip makes it really easy to install Scrapy with a one-liner. So pip install Scrapy, with a capital S. If you run into issues, check out the Scrapy installation guide, but after this is installed, you should have access to all the command line tools. So try Scrapy --help, just to make sure everything looks good. All right, so now we want to scrape a web page with Scrapy. So here's the page we're going to scrape, pythonscraping.com/linkedin/ietf.html. Nothing too fancy, I replicated a very famous IETF, that is, the Internet Engineering Task Force, paper, added some tags, cleaned it up a little bit, just so we can sort of use it as target practice for web…
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