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“scrapy” became my alter ego. it all started with my first ever python project, a simple web scraper that pulled headlines from top news sites. i used the scrapy library by @ScrapyProject. it wasn’t much, just a script. but it was the first thing i built that actually worked. and that made it special. later, i realized something funny: most of my ideas felt like fragments, messy, raw, not yet stitched together. so the word “scrapy” stuck. i even launched a few nft projects under the name “ScrapyNFTs”, none of them took off (my art was pretty scrapy too lol). nfts introduced me to web3, which led me to explore blockchain… and eventually evolve into @scrapychain.

10 years after the release of 1.0, Scrapy has become table stakes for modern web scraping projects. Creator Shane Evans talks through Scrapy's current position in the industry. #ScrapyAnniversary #OpenSource #WebScraping

Scrapy didn’t start in a lab. It started in a startup. From solving real-world data problems to becoming one of the most trusted scraping frameworks out there—here’s how it all began. 👉 zyte.com/blog/the-rise-of-sc… #ScrapyAnniversary #OpenSource #Python

Scrapy 2.8.0 is out. This is a maintenance release, with minor features, bug fixes, and cleanups. See the full changelog at docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/ne…

Have you got what it takes to be called a web scraping whizz? Join the @ExtractSummit 2022 Coding Contest to find out!

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Scrapy 2.6.2 and 1.8.3 are out, addressing a security issue: docs.scrapy.org/en/2.6/news.… 2.6.2 also addresses the remaining regressions of 2.6.0.

Scrapy 2.6.1 is out, with security fixes around cookies also backported to Scrapy 1.8.2. But it is not just security fixes! There is official Python 3.10 support, asyncio support no longer being experimental, and new features for feed exports: docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/ne…

Have you not tried Playwright and Scrapy together yet? Get started in 10 minutes! youtube.com/watch?v=0wO7K-So… Thank you, @jhnwr!!!

We have released Scrapy 2.5.1 and Scrapy 1.8.1, which fix a security issue that could lead to the leak of HTTP authentication credentials to target websites. Find out more in the release notes: docs.scrapy.org/en/2.5/news.…

An introduction to Scrapy from @bsekiewicz , winner of the Extract Summit 2021 Coding Contest: worksmarter.pl/en/post/websc…

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There are prizes for the first 3 people with all data correctly scraped. The solutions must run on Scrapy Cloud. #scrapy #scraping #Python

Thanks to @NoelTautges, itemadapter 0.3.0 makes it possible to use #pydantic models as Scrapy items!

We have moved our IRC channel to Libera.Chat: web.libera.chat/?channel=#sc… Mind, however, that you’ll probably find more people on Discord: discord.gg/fbCHpAm6KM

We are on Discord now, join us! discord.gg/fbCHpAm6KM