https://github.com/buihdk/scrapy-books

A demo of scraping book data from the website https://books.toscrape.com using Scrapy
https://github.com/buihdk/scrapy-books

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A demo of scraping book data from the website https://books.toscrape.com using Scrapy

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/buihdk/scrapy-books
• Owner: buihdk
• Created: 2023-05-16T06:50:55.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-05-18T04:52:28.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-13T11:21:59.017Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: ipython, scrapy, scrapy-spider
• Language: Python
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• Size: 24.4 MB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
This python tool is used to crawl book data from the website https://books.toscrape.com 

## Steps to crawl

- run `python -m venv venv` at root to create a virtual environment

- run `source venv/bin/activate` at root to activate the newly created virtual environment

- run `pip install -r requirements.txt` to install all the required modules for this python project

- run `scrapy crawl bookspider` inside web-scrapy/bookscraper/bookscraper to start crawling

### A few useful commands

- run `scrapy startproject bookscraper` inside web-scrapy to initiate a bookscraper project

- run `scrapy genspider bookspider books.toscrape.com` inside bookscraper/spiders to generate a spider bookspider

- run `pip3 install ipython`

- add `shell = ipython` in scrapy.cfg

- run `scrapy shell` for testing scrapy commands

- run `scrapy crawl bookspider -o bookdata.csv` to craw and output data to bookdata.csv 

- run `scrapy crawl bookspider -o bookdata.json` to craw and output data to bookdata.json