Scrapy is a free and open-source web-crawling framework written in Python. Originally designed for web scraping, it can also be used to extract data using APIs or as a general-purpose web crawler. It was developed and is maintained by Zyte formerly Scrapinghub, a web-scraping...


Scrapy vs Kimono Comments


- Scrapy is Free and Open Source





















































All the infrastructure bits that come with it if you need. Its pretty much impossible to do a significant crawl all by yourself (proxy management hell), so being able to get things working first and then lean on the backend infrastructure the scrapy guys have is a major relief.