Scrapy and friends
Open source at our heart

Where it all started
Make building spiders a breeze
Scrapy is an open source Python framework built specifically for web scraping by MDMS co-founders Pablo Hoffman and Shane Evans. Out of the box, Scrapy spiders are designed to download webpage data (HTML, JSON, XML…), parse and process the data and save it in any structured data format (e.g. CSV, JSON, XML).


Scrapy and friends
Open source at our heart
Scrapy boasts a wide range of built-in extensions and middlewares designed for handling cookies and sessions as well as HTTP features like compression, authentication, caching, user-agents, robots.txt and crawl depth restriction. It is also very easy to extend through the development of custom middlewares or pipelines to your web scraping projects which can give you the specific functionality you require.
Giving you the power of Data Extraction
Scrapy
Scrapy is our open source web crawling framework written in Python. Scrapy is one of the most widely used and highly regarded frameworks of its kind; very powerful yet easy to use
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Spidermon
Spidermon is our battle-tested open source spider monitoring library for Scrapy.
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DateParser
DateParser is our library for parsing human-readable dates and times. Supports 18 languages..
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Eli5
A library for debugging machine learning classifiers and explaining their predictions.y.
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Formasaurus
Formasaurus figures out the type of an HTML form using machine learning. Is it a login, search, sign up, password recovery, contact form, etc..
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W3lib
W3lib provides a number of useful web-related functions for your web scraping projects..
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ScrapyRT
ScrapyRT let’s you reuse your spider’s logic to extract data from web pages through a single HTTP request..
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Queuelib
Queuelib lets you create disk-based queues in Python..
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Parsel
Parsel lets you extract data from XML/HTML documents using XPath or CSS selectors.
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Cssselect
CSS Selectors for Python
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Itemloaders
Library to populate items using XPath and CSS with a convenient API
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Itemadapter
Common interface for data container classes.
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Protego
A pure-Python robots.txt parser with support for modern conventions..
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Price-parser
Extract price amount and currency symbol from a raw text string.
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Spidermon
Parse numbers written in natural language.
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Dev tools that make scraping easy
Scrapy Cloud
Scrapy Cloud is our battle-tested platform for running and managing web crawlers.
Easily build crawlers and deploy them instantly. Your spiders run in the cloud, scaling on demand from thousands to billions of pages.
MDMS API Enterprise
Supercharge Your Data Scraping Team. When data collection is too important to outsource, but laws, bans and proxies still keep you up at night. We have the perfect solution for you.
Software + Strategy = Zyte API Enterprise.