python scrapy code example

Example 1: python web crawler

import scrapy

class BlogSpider(scrapy.Spider):
    name = 'blogspider'
    start_urls = ['https://blog.scrapinghub.com']

    def parse(self, response):
        for title in response.css('.post-header>h2'):
            yield {'title': title.css('a ::text').get()}

        for next_page in response.css('a.next-posts-link'):
            yield response.follow(next_page, self.parse)

Example 2: scrapy create project

scrapy startproject projectname

Example 3: how to run scrapy inside a nm

import scrapy
from scrapy.crawler import CrawlerProcess

class MySpider(scrapy.Spider):
    # Your spider definition
    ...

process = CrawlerProcess(settings={
    "FEEDS": {
        "items.json": {"format": "json"},
    },
})

process.crawl(MySpider)
process.start() # the script will block here until the crawling is finished