Web Scraping using Python Scrapy_BS4 - using Scrapy and Python(2)

Scrapy Architecture

 

 

 Creating a Spider.

　　Spiders are classes that you define that Scrapy uses to scrape(extract) information from a website(s).

import scrapy

class QuoteSpider(scrapy.Spider):
    name = "quote"
    start_urls = [
        'https://bluelimelearning.github.io/my-fav-quotes/'
    ]

    def parse(self, response):
        for quote in response.css('div.quotes'):
            yield{
                'quote':quote.css('p.aquote::text').extract(),
                'author':quote.css('p.author::text').extract_first(),
            }

 

 

Running your spider and saving scrapped data.

scrapy runspider quotes_spiders.py -o quotes.xml

 

 

 

 

https://www.cleancss.com/strip-xml/

 

 

Scraping data with Scrapy Shell

scrapy shell "https://bluelimelearning.github.io/my-fav-quotes/"

 

 

 

 

 

 

response.css('title')

 

 

 

response.css('title::text').extract()

 

 

response.css('h1::text').extract()

 

 

quote = response.css("div.quotes")[0]
aquote = quote.css("p.aquote::text").extract()
aquote