Scrapy resources

Production ecosystem for backend web extraction

How Scrapy works and how its components interact

Common Scrapy questions answered in one place.

High-level summary of the framework capabilities and example spider.

Useful addons

scrapy-playwright

The modern standard for handling javascript sites and dynamic content, that adheres to the regular Scrapy workflow.

spidermon

A Framework that adds monitoring, validation, and alerting (Slack/Discord/Email) to your Scrapy spiders.

scrapy-zyte-api

Connects to Zyte's managed API for automatic proxy rotation, browser fingerprinting, and ban avoidance.

scrapy-poet

Separate the extraction logic from the parsing logic in your spiders. Also see Web Scraping Copilot (VS Code Extension) for code generation.

Scrapyd

It allows you to upload Scrapy projects and control their spiders using a JSON API.

Scrapy Cloud by Zyte

Fast and simple deployment with a free tier. Fully managed scaling, logging, and storage.

Industry insights, legal compliance updates, and high-level scraping strategy.

A "Cookbook" style collection of specific how-to guides (S3 integration, Cloudflare bypassing).

High-quality tutorials focusing on code cleanliness and database integration (MongoDB/Django).