Scrapy Python Web Crawler: What It Is, How It Works, and When to Add a Scraping API
Scrapy is Python's leading open-source web crawling framework, but it hits hard walls on JavaScript rendering and bot detection that a scraping API resolves without replacing Scrapy's strengths. Read on to learn how Scrapy works, where it falls short, and how to wire both together using the official Ujeebu Scrapy plugin or a custom middleware.