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Katharine Jarmul is a data scientist and Pythonista based in Berlin, Germany. She runs a data science consulting company, Kjamistan, that provides services such as data extraction, acquisition, and modelling for small and large companies. She has been writing Python since 2008 and scraping the web with Python since 2010, and has worked at both small and large start-ups who use web scraping for data analysis and machine learning. When she's not scraping the web, you can follow her thoughts and activities via Twitter (@kjam)
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Different Spider Types

In this Scrapy example, we have utilized the Scrapy CrawlSpider, which is particularly useful when crawling a website or series of websites. Scrapy has several other spiders you may want to use depending on the site and your extraction needs. These spiders fall under the following categories:

  • Spider: A normal scraping spider. This is usually used for just scraping one type of page.
  • CrawlSpider: A crawl spider; usually used for traversing a domain and scraping one (or several) types of pages from the pages it finds by crawling links.
  • XMLFeedSpider: A spider which traverses an XML feed and extracts content from each node.
  • CSVFeedSpider: Similar to the XML spider, but instead can parse CSV rows within the feed.
  • SitemapSpider: A spider which can crawl a site with differing rules by first parsing the Sitemap.

Each of these spiders are included in your default Scrapy installation, so you can access...

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