When I’m writing webscrapers I mostly just pivot between selenium (because the website is too “fancy” and definitely needs a browser) and pure requests calls (both in conjunction with bs4).

But when reading about scrapers, scrapy is often the first mentioned Python package. What am I missing out on if I’m not using it?

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Yep try scrapy. And also it handles for you the concurrency of your pipelines items, configuration for every part,…

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