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Scrapy
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Overview
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Scrapy is a fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework, used to
crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages. It can be used for
a wide range of purposes, from data mining to monitoring and automated testing.

For more information including a list of features check the Scrapy homepage at:
http://scrapy.org

Requirements
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* Python 2.6 or up
* Works on Linux, Windows, Mac OSX, BSD

Install
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The quick way::

    pip install scrapy

For more details see the install section in the documentation:
http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/intro/install.html

Releases
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You can download the latest stable and development releases from:
http://scrapy.org/download/

Documentation
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Documentation is available online at http://doc.scrapy.org/ and in the ``docs``
directory.

Community (blog, twitter, mail list, IRC)
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See http://scrapy.org/community/

Contributing
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See http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/contributing.html

Companies using Scrapy
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See http://scrapy.org/companies/

Commercial Support
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See http://scrapy.org/support/