Web Crawler
This project is maintained by milosnowcat
Web Crawler
This project provides a web crawler built with Scrapy that extracts book titles, prices, and availability from a website. To get started using this project, follow the installation steps below.
Before installing the project, make sure you have Python installed on your system. You can download Python from python.org.
Clone the GitHub repository to your local machine using the following command:
git clone https://github.com/milosnowcat/crawler.py.git
Navigate to the crawler.py
directory:
cd crawler.py
Install Scrapy using pip:
pip install -r requirements.txt
Run the spider to start crawling:
scrapy crawl books
This will start the web crawling process and extract book information from the specified website.
That’s it! You have successfully installed and executed the Crawler.py project.
The Crawler.py project is a web crawler built with Scrapy that extracts book titles, prices, and availability from a website. Here are the steps for using the project.
Ensure you have followed the installation steps mentioned in the “Installation of the Crawler.py Project” section.
After running the scrapy crawl books
command, the spider will start crawling the website http://books.toscrape.com/.
Crawler.py
class:
parse_item
callback function is used to extract book information from these pages.The extracted information includes book titles, prices, and availability.
The crawled data is printed to the console in JSON format.
You can customize the spider to save the data to a file, database, or perform other actions as needed.
Ctrl + C
in your terminal.That’s it! You have successfully used the Crawler.py project to scrape book information from a website using Scrapy.