Using CrawlSpider for Automated Web Scraping in Scrapy
Overview
When scraping an entire website like Qiushibaike (Chinese joke site), you have two approaches:
Method 1: Use Scrapy's base Spider class with recursive crawling (manual request callbacks).
Method 2: Use CrawlSpider for automated link extraction and crawling (cleaner and more efficient).
This guide covers:
CrawlSpider introduction
Crawl ...
Posted on Sun, 24 May 2026 19:45:48 +0000 by sheraz