Create Your First Scrapy Spider - Python Scrapy Beginner Series [Part 1]

In this video, we go through how to set up your first Python Scrapy spider and how to scrape data from a live website.

How to setup a python virtual environment:    • PYTHON VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS (Beginner...  

If you'd like to follow along with the video we also have the full article which you can read here: https://thepythonscrapyplaybook.com/s...

The code can also be downloaded from our github account here: https://github.com/ScrapeOps/python-s...

00:00 - Getting started, prerequisites
01:33 - Create a Scrapy Project & Scrapy Spider
04:07 - Finding the items to scrape with Scrapy Shell
12:42 - Adding the extracting code to our Spider
15:41 - Running our Spider
16:43 - Saving the scraped data in JSON or CSV format
18:08 - Navigating to the next page with our Spider
24:30 - Outro, explaining the next video in series