Scrapy Scrapy (/ˈskreɪpaɪ/) is an application framework for crawling web sites and extracting structured data which can be used for a wide range of useful applications, like data mining, information processing or historical archival. In scrapy requests are scheduled and processed asynchronously . While this enables you to do very fast crawls (sending multiple concurrent requests at the same time, in a fault-tolerant way) Scrapy also gives you control over the politeness of the crawl through a few settings. You can do things like setting a download delay between each request, limiting amount of concurrent requests per domain or per IP, and even using an auto-throttling extension that tries to figure out these automatically. Our first Spider: Spiders are classes that you define and that Scrapy uses to scrape information from a website (or a group of websites). They must subclass Spider and define the initial requests to make, optionally how to follow links in the pages, ...