Scrapy specifications
- Pricing
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- Best for
- Scrapy is perfect for developers who want to quickly build fast and customizable web scrapers in Python. Used by million
- Category
- Web Scraping & Browser Automation
- Key capabilities
- Open source data extraction frameworkWrite rules to extract dataBuild spiders in PythonFast and powerfulFree to useMaintained by thriving community
- Website
- scrapy.com
- Listing type
- Directory profile
What Scrapy does
Scrapy Scrapy is a powerful open-source tool designed for web scraping and data extraction. It helps you gather public web data easily and efficiently. With over 19,000 stars and 3,600 forks on GitHub, it’s widely trusted by developers. Scrapy stands out for its speed, flexibility, and strong community support, making complex data scraping much simpler. Scrapy shines when you need to build fast web scrapers or spiders to crawl websites and extract structured data. You can get started in minutes by writing simple Python code to define what data you want. Results come quickly, helping you save time on manual data collection or large-scale web projects. In your tech stack, Scrapy serves as a powerful data collection engine feeding into analytics, CRMs, or data enrichment tools. However, it’s not ideal for scraping highly interactive JavaScript-heavy sites without extra setup. It works best
Core capabilities
- Open source data extraction framework
- Write rules to extract data
- Build spiders in Python
- Fast and powerful
- Free to use
- Maintained by thriving community
Pricing
| Model | Free |
|---|---|
| Observed pricing | Managed Service Get a Demo Get Started All there is to know about the latest prospecting techniques. Subscribe Growth Agency Inboxes Grow your revenue Ressources Tech Stack Video Content Case Studies |
Pricing read from the vendor’s public pages and re-checked each quarter. Seat minimums and annual commitments are excluded unless stated.
Who it fits
Scrapy is perfect for developers who want to quickly build fast and customizable web scrapers in Python. Used by million
How we classify it
Listed under Web Scraping & Browser Automation, Lead Scraping. Verdicts are written from public pricing, documentation and hands-on trials — not from vendor briefings.
Henryk Wexel runs Quota Engine. He spent a decade selling B2B software and building outbound systems — as a founder, as a seller at Silverfort and Cradlepoint, and as the person on the hook for pipeline numbers. He writes the reviews here because he has bought, deployed, argued about and cancelled most of the tools in this index. Based in Palma de Mallorca.