Scrapy for Beginners - A Complete How To Example Web Scraping Project

[@grahamfeeley9944]

I struggle to understand all commands in Python, however John has opened the door to me with his videos on scraping, Thank you John

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

I’m glad I can help Graham

[@mickelodiansurname9578]

As a coder since the 80's I can pretty much guarantee you will never learn all the functions, libraries, plugins or imports or methodologies in a programming language. There are just too many and you use most so infrequently. Maybe old languages like basic and pascal might have a low ceiling on functions etc.. But that is what having another tab open on google is for, cos you will never be the first to face a given problem.

[@obeliskphaeton]

​@@JohnWatsonRooney Hi John. Im trying to go thru this tutorial. But at around 15:30 mark, my code is exporting a blank file. I can't figure out why? Also the items scraped count (100) in your case < ---- this line is NOT available in my terminal output I am using the exact same code as you.

[@cornelius600]

To anyone struggling with setting things up, for this to work in 2022 you'll need: - Python 3.8 - pip 22.2.2 - Scrapy==2.6.2 - requests==2.6.0 - pyOpenSSL==22.0.0 Than it'll work. Thanks for the awesome tutorial, really helpful.

[@lucasgonzalezsonnenberg3204]

You helped me a lot.

[@valkiriaaquatica]

@@Serpent-DCLXV Maybe the webpage you are trying to request has banned your IP, try using proxies to change your IP address

[@EmilyAllan]

Great comment! Thank you.

[@EmilyAllan]

​@@valkiriaaquatica agreed. There needs to be respect for the speed at which you are querying the server. Too fast looks like a DDOS attempt.

[@apk1970]

Best beginners scrapy tutorial to date. Testing prior to building the spider.

[@SyedShah-os7ck]

This is first time I came across John's channel. What an amazing beginners tutorial on Scrapy..., it is clear, straightforward with an actual example project!! What I really like is John's non-salesman's method of providing all the relevant information and professionally nav through the content. Thank you John. cheers mate and keep making quality content.

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Thank you very much I’m glad I have helped you

[@eddievuong]

yours isn't the first scrapy video I watched, but definitely the best one out there. Thank you very much

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Thanks!

[@navturn]

This video is quite "old" but still perfectly relevant. I discovered you channel recently and love it. Thank you.

[@vitalchance5768]

Again, excellent video! There are so many idiotic tutorials online where the authors seemingly do not understand neither terminology nor the process flow of what they are teaching. In this great example even the recursive scraping was made easy and elegant and John actually pointed out that this is recursive scraping which, in its nutshell, is a foundation of any real life spider. Thank you!

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Thank you very kind!

[@omidasadi2264]

23 minutes teaching, without a second interrupt, just can say wonderful my friend..!

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Thank you very kind!

[@GlennCarnes]

Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you. I was reading a book on Web-Scraping but was totally lost as they short-circuited some of the vital steps in the process. This was a clear as day, and now I feel confident in pursuing the next level.

[@k.k6349]

holy lol, this was exactly what I was looking for. Actually I was struggling with some paid online course using scrapy and I looked up your playlist but couldn't find any scraping via scrapy and now here it is.

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Glad I can help!!

[@asmuchican490]

One of the best channel to learn web crawling. Good audio and video quality and easy to understand.

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Thank you!

[@10willian03]

Man, what an amazing tutorial, honestly I watched some other videos about Scrapy but none of them could make their lessons clear I was having no progress at all, until I came across your video Thanks a lot and congratulations for your work

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Thank you! I’m glad I was able to help!

[@victormaia4192]

I had already tried to learn scrapy and failed many times to follow the results from other videos, but I finally got similar resultsfollowing your steps, I felt I learned a lot, even with my mistakes, just had to use custom_settings and it runned perfectly.

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

That’s great!

[@ahmadhaidar719]

hi,what settings did you apply,because i have a problem runing the scrape and crawling.

[@dystopian_1]

You are the only Scrapy specialist that I follow in YT... hoping that you will keep sharing knowledge.

[@ferilukmansyah3037]

I just heard about scrapy framework, this tutorial is easy to understand, I am very grateful

[@mitchdask]

That's exactly what i was searching for!A well explained example of scrapy - simply amazing!You made me understand how it works!Many thanks!!!!!!!

[@exeprinced]

Same. Its very educational. Amazing video.

[@ahmd09]

The most Underrated Pythonista Ever

[@littlehonda272]

I only finish the beginner guide for python and your tutorial is amazingly easy to understand. looking forward to more demonstration tutorial! Many thanks!

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Thank you!

[@nsfmatt]

John, the content you produce is fantastic. I have learned a great deal from your videos. Thanks to this video in particular, I can now collect Major League Baseball scores quickly, easily, and accurately using a Python script that takes only a few seconds. Thank you!

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Hey! That’s fantastic thanks!

[@gianfrancodagostino3938]

Man great tutorial. Pretty straightforward. The additional tips like the -o and -O are just gold. Thank you.

[@tubelessHuma]

Brilliant John. Happy Scrapy Journey 👏💖

[@amineboutaghou4714]

Very clever initiative of making scrappy videos as there are only a few ou there in KZbin with much lower quality than yours. Good continuation !

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Thank you !

[@hails1244]

THIS was tremendously helpful. and I actually got my .json file output with all my results. thanks for everything.

[@shantanuraj7086]

This is one of the best videos I have seen so far. Thanks

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Thank you!

[@Niams993]

Wow, best tutorial I've seen so far about the basics of Scrapy, thanks a lot John !

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Glad you liked it!

[@antaljani]

Hi John, I just made it. However there are even more products on the page, the spider was worked properly. Thanks a lot for this tutorial, you helped a lot.

[@7Trident3]

Just getting started with scraping, using the "web scraper" plugin. It really is satisfying seeing the data in a usable way. Thank you for the basic tutorial, love your channel. Thanks to you, Scrapy will be another tool in the box, I might even try your BS tutorial?! You should do a video on "How it's done". Couldn't subscribe fast enough!

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Hey thank you! Very kind

[@alemanpp1234]

Thanks, the best scrapy video by far!! PD: in your "if" statement you could just do: if nextpage: print("blablabla") Both work but I think this look cleaner.

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Thanks a lot!

[@imherovirat]

Hey Buddy, I've been following your videos since last month. You are doing great. I really enjoy watching your videos and coding along with you. I was just thinking of learning scrapy boom and now the video is here. I haven't watched this but I'm saving for later it and leaving with a like and this comment. Just keep uploading few more videos and projects with scrapy. Thanks, Love from Nepal

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Thank you so much 😊 very kind

[@roataion7042]

I love you John! Switching to Scrapy for the next part of my project.

[@CurrentElectrical]

A nice and clean explanation, thank you from Canada.

[@exeprinced]

The python code is just beautiful

[@waleedshreef6787]

Dear John Thanks for all your help from others, and I wait for more from you. We are following you Regards Waleed

[@AmodeusR]

Awesome video, it helped me a lot to understand Scrapy and how to do somethings I wanted with a personal project.

[@LifePurposePath]

I would love to call you my Teacher 🥰. So, Sir thank you so much. I love your work.

[@UsamaAli-kr2cw]

Fantastic Stuffs you make Scrapy look easy when it is not.

[@jakepyrett1715]

Thanks so much for the content. Works perfectly and saved me hours of frustration! Thanks for adding the bonus pagination material.

[@ervankurniawan41]

You're channel is too sicks! Thanks for sharing the tutorial! Really helpful for me to get started learn scrapy from basics! 🌟

[@DagStylez]

This is a great tutorial on Scrapy. Very clear walk-through. Thank you!

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Thank you

[@juanotavalo]

Thank you, your tutorial was so simple to understand the basic functionality of scrapy.

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Glad you liked it

[@BYOong]

Thanks John, these are very practical tutorials for scrapy

[@djuzla89]

This was nice, exactly what I was looking for

[@firstandlast4435]

As I understand now the site somehow disallow to scrawl it (Probably I have mistaken, but i get 403 instead of 200). So, What it is all about? How does that happen? How can I check if a site will allow me to scrawl or not? Could I bypass it? And if yes, Is this legal or not?

[@Henry_Nunez]

John Watson Rooney 👍🔔 Gracias amigo.

[@hannsflip]

Very good tutorial, self explanatory!!!!

[@raffymcfee9846]

I can't scrape it. It gives me Ignoring response

[@RichPortah]

All your videos are the best 👍... I follow along with every one

[@AnjaliSingh-gi7ox]

This video on Scrapy is incredibly informative and helpful. It provided a clear understanding of the framework in a concise manner. Highly recommended!

[@10tksom28]

Thank you John! Your explanation is very comprehensive. Great tutorial!

[@adc9640]

Excellent tutorial video!! Had issue setting up virtual environment earlier. This video cleared everything up for me. Very clear steps on Scrapy as well!

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Thank you I’m glad it could help you out!

[@milesonme]

This was my first ever project on webscraping with Scrapy. Thank you so much. Can you please share the resources you used to learn scrapy, beautifulsoup and selenium too? Again,thank you

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Hey! thanks for watching. I learned Scrapy by just trying and doing, reading docs, googling errors. In itself it can be simple or complex, but it does require a higher level of Python skill. But its worth it

[@AL-sk9iv]

Just have to say, some legend.🙌

[@nachoeigu]

This video is amazing. 😍👏🏻 I would like snother similar like how to automate a spider from Scrapy in the Cloud so it can work 24/7. What do you think about this topic?

[@lifeisstr4nge]

Nice no-nonsense tutorial. Thanks ;)

[@137Official]

Your tutorials are so concise, cheers to the great content, so many useful details.

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Thank you!

[@Diamond_Hanz]

OMG.. TY. NYC in the house

[@Actanonverba01]

Good Work, John! I found them really useful. If I may suggest, I feel that numbering the videos is helpful. While I feel that your video naming is done well, it is not always clear to new students of the subject. Numbering gives me an idea of the flow of logic, tasks, and their difficulty that could/should be learned in what order. When someone like yourself has a good number of quality videos it is hard to know where to start. I know that free advice is worth every penny, but just food for thought. ;) Kudos!

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Thanks. Yes I really need to redo my playlists so I have a “start here” style one, I think that would be very useful

[@deifio]

Great tutorial! Covers all the basics and I think I can start building my own program now. Thank you!

[@IntricateMoon]

Thank you for this amazing tutorial John!!! 🤩

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Glad you liked it!

[@KhalilYasser]

Awesome my bro. Thanks a lot for these treasures.

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Thank you

[@ishaipsita7768]

hi i am getting a 403 error , what do i do ?

[@pranavkannambadi6865]

instead of inspecting the page, you should use selector gadget which is a chrome extension which allows you to get the the css code directly by just clicking on the part where you want to scrape.

[@keckelt]

Great tutorial and example products 🙂

[@cylam2109]

Hello from Hong Kong, it is a good video, thank you.

[@cylam2109]

Sorry one thing to ask, what to do if I just got a service 503 using Scrapy to fetch Amazon?

[@cylam2109]

Does it mean I got blocked using Scrapy? Normal service using Google Chrome to browse.

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Unforuantely amazon have changed the way they work and it now blocks more, i am working on a new amazon scraping video

[@harshsharma-je8wo]

Hi John please help, I using response.css('img::attr(data-src) ').extract() for finding url images of product which is 60 total in a page and in scrapy shell it is only finding my 35 in which only 4 are the product images and rest are other images I'm unable to get product images please help

[@nadyamoscow2461]

Your lessons are brilliant, thanks for sharing

[@salimbo4577]

Thank you so much. Very informative with just the essential stuff to use

[@beware5159]

Thank you for the tutorial man!

[@omari6108]

This is fantastic, and very helpful. Thanks a lot man

[@BeSharpInCSharp]

what a wonderful tutorial. thanks from the heart

[@ninja_modz]

Thank you so much the tutorial is very clear

[@softangles]

Hi John, I am following same steps as yours but program returns me empty array when I get items by css property

[@nicolas141299]

Thnk you :) very clear example

[@abukaium2106]

Great video..i request you to make a video how to use proxy in scrapy or how to prevent from getting blocked.

[@thedoomsday8659]

Use proxy rotation,user agents

[@solarflaer]

this dude is cool asf thanks g

[@abhishek894]

Fantastic stuff. Your way of going through each step is awesome. Thank you for sharing this.

[@jonathanfriz4410]

As always, gold content!

[@TauwinKul]

Thank you for the world class content.

[@joekakone]

Very clear ! Thank you a lot 😊. This is exactly what I was looking for ✅

[@GelsYT]

Hi John! whatever is in the start_urls -- it'll automatically go through the parse function when the scraping starts right? Thanks!

[@alexmulo]

Hi John, thanks for this nice tutorial. Would it be possible to make another video about the use of headers, rotating proxy and time.sleep with Scrapy? Thanks

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Yes more scrapy videos coming!

[@vampirekabir]

you are amazing man looking forward for more

[@nijatnurmamat4646]

Hallo John, Thanks for the amazing job. I have a question according to it. I have written the code in Jupyter notebook, it creates .ipynb instead .py. when I run scrapy crawl "name" it can not find the "name" od scrapy Spider that created, is it something to do with the file extension or is there other problems ? Thank you !

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Hi! I think you will need to create your spider outside of the notebooks as it won’t work properly. You can export your code and create the spider again inside a scrapy project and it should be fine

[@sergi0YT]

Whiksy Whisky! 🥃

[@swelanauguste6176]

Thanks for all the videos, would you be able to do an update video/series for Scrapy?

[@scraps7624]

Exactly what I was looking for, great video

[@theinstigatorr]

Couldn’t get past the forbidden by robot message when trying to scrape. Even after changing the flag in my settings file to false. Why is no one else bringing this up?

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Try adding a real user agent in, I believe there’s a setting in the scrapy settings file for one

[@techbystorm]

Thanks for the amazing video. Does scrapy fetch in asynchronous way?

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

It’s built on the twisted library which is asynchronous 👍

[@IanDangerfield]

dude this was awesome! Thank you

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Thanks glad you enjoyed it!

[@vitalchance5768]

Excellent video, thank you!

[@oyvindlindvi]

Very good video John! Thank you very much

[@spicemasterii6775]

Amazing video! Very clearly explained. Well done and thank you!

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Thanks!

[@manwhogrin7361]

This video helps me a lot, anyway thank you for the tutorial.

[@JohnWatsonRooney]

Glad it helped

[@ОлегАндрус-ю5е]

that's awesome man! thanks!

[@usmanafridi9668]

Thank you for such an awesome video!!

[@thebicycleman8062]

wow he makes it seem like it is super simple and common sense wht he is doing and to me it looks like something that u would find in an ancient cave on mars on another dimension universe..

[@suryaadiwijaya685]

Hi John im a newbie, how create "Crapy-Whiskeyshiop" from beginning? Open Power Shell? and the next step?

[@Yuri-wk8rk]

Thank you, nice tutorial

[@muhammaddenaadryan2411]

Easy to follow, thank you !

[@raphaelamponsah4016]

Your tuts are succinct!😉