Scrapy – Requests and Responses
The Scrapy Framework, built using Python, is one of the most popular open-source web crawling frameworks. The motivation behind Scrapy is to make searching through large Web pages and extraction of data efficient and easy. No matter the size or complexity of the website, Scrapy is capable of crawling any website. One of the core features of Scrapy is its ability to send HTTP requests and handle the respective responses.
Required Modules
Before diving into the Scrapy requests and responses demonstration, the following modules are expected to be installed:
To install Scrapy we can use pip as follow,
pip install scrapy
Scrapy – Requests and Responses
In this article, we will explore the Request and Response-ability of Scrapy through a demonstration in which we will scrape some data from a website using Scrapy request and process that scraped data from Scrapy response.