Scrapy Vs. Crawlee

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Scrapy

Scrapy is an open-source Python-based web scraping framework that extracts data from websites. With Scrapy, you create spiders, which are autonomous scripts to download and process web content. The limitation of Scrapy is that it does not work very well with JavaScript rendered websites, as it was designed for static HTML pages. We will do a comparison later in the article about this.

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puppeteer

In Crawlee, you can scrape JavaScript rendered websites using the built-in headless Puppeteer and Playwright browsers. It is important to note that, by default, Crawlee scrapes in headless mode. If you don't want headless, then just set headless: false.

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Import { PlaywrightCrawler } from 'crawlee'; Const crawler = new PlaywrightCrawler({ requestHandler: async ({ page }) => { const title = await page.title(); const price = await page.textContent('.price'); await crawler.pushData({ url: request.url, title, price }); } }) Await crawler.run(['http://example.com']);.