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Scrapy's core handles crawling well and deliberately leaves almost everything else out: no bundled browser, no opinion about how you shape your data, no built-in answer for every anti-bot wrinkle. What it gives you instead is a clean way to add those things at the edges, exactly when you need them and never before.

You can now choose which Python browser library you want to use with scrapy-playwright. I go through why this is a huge deal for the right scraping demographic.

In our interview, a QA expert warns - before you delegate web scraping quality assurance to AI, make sure you can describe what ‘good’ looks like for yourself.

Learn how an investigative mindset helps scale data extraction from single requests to millions daily by building resilient, efficient scraping systems.

In this guide, you'll learn three things: how HTML tables are actually structured (so the parsing makes sense), how to extract clean tabular data using Python, and how to export it to CSV or Excel

AI-enabled code editors can now conjure scraping code on command. But is it any good? Here’s how Zyte re-engineered LLMs with Web Scraping Copilot to drive best-in-class output.

Learn how hybrid scraping combines headless browsers and lightweight HTTP clients to bypass JavaScript challenges efficiently. Reduce RAM usage, improve speed, and scale your web scraping pipelines with session reuse and TLS fingerprinting.

Track real-world gold and silver retail prices automatically using Zyte API, Python, and a Raspberry Pi with an e-ink display. Learn how to scrape rendered HTML, parse prices, and build an always-on trading dashboard.

Scrapy 2.14.0 modernizes the framework with native async/await, smarter scheduling, and cleaner spider configuration. Here’s what the new release means for production crawlers in 2026.

In this guide, we'll show you how to use Web Scraping Copilot (our VS Code extension) to automatically write 100% of your Items, Page Objects, and even your unit tests.

In this guide, we'll fix this by refactoring our spider to a professional, modern standard using Scrapy Items and Page Objects (via crapy-poet). We will completely separate our crawling logic from our parsing logic.

In this definitive guide, we will walk you through, step-by-step, how to build a real, multi-page crawling spider. You will go from an empty folder to a clean JSON file of structured data in about 15 minutes