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    <h2>Welcome to Scrapy</h2>

    <blockquote><p>
    Scrapy is a high level scraping and web crawling framework for writing
    spiders to crawl and parse web pages for all kinds of purposes, from
    information retrieval to monitoring or testing web sites.
    </p></blockquote>
    
    <h3>Features</h3>

    <dl>
    <dt>Productive</dt>
    <dd>Just write the rules to extract texts from pages and Scrapy will crawl the entire site for you</dd>

    <dt>Scalable</dt>
    <dd>Scrapy is being used in production to scrape more than 500 sites daily, all in one server</dd>

    <dt>Distributed<dt>
    <dd>If you need more processing/bandwith power Scrapy comes bundled with master/slave cluster that lets you scrape with as many machines as you want</li>

    <dt>Extensible</dt>
    <dd>Scrapy was designed with extensibility in mind and so it provides several mechanisms to plug new code without having to touch the framework core</li>

    <dt>Portable</dt>
    <dd>Scrapy runs on Linux, Windows and Mac</dd>

    <dt>100% Python</dt>
    <dd>Scrapy is completely written in Python, which makes it very easy to hack it</dd>
    </dl>

    <h3>Project status</h3>

    <p>
    We're currently preparing the first official release of Scrapy with a
    very stable API. At the moment we consider the API quite stable, and
    we're writing documentation, tutorials and examples to make it easier
    to start using it.
    </p>

    <h3>Where to start?</h3>

    <p> 
    Please start by reading <a href="/docs/">the documentation</a> and check
    out the community resources where you can ask for further help while we
    improve the documentation.
    </p>

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