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Scrapy

by Scrapy · Open source Python framework for web scraping and crawling

37.7 — BenchRank score out of 100

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Overview

Scrapy is an open source Python framework for web scraping. `scrapy startproject` lays out a project with spiders, items, pipelines and settings, and `scrapy crawl` runs it. The core covers CSS and XPath selectors, an async engine with throttling, item pipelines and feed exports to JSON, CSV and S3; browser rendering, monitoring and anti-ban come from add-ons.

Best for: Python developers building maintainable crawlers that extract public web data at scale.
Pricing: No prices are shown; the pages describe Scrapy as free, open source and BSD-licensed.

Strengths and trade-offs

Strengths

CSS and XPath selectors, mixable, with regex and defaults
Scaffolds a full project: spiders, items, pipelines, settings
Async engine with throttling; feed exports to JSON, CSV, S3
15+ years of releases, 500+ contributors, maintained by Zyte

Trade-offs

Browser rendering, monitoring and anti-ban need separate extensions
Python-only; assumes you can write and maintain spider code
Reactor-less mode was still experimental at v2.15.0
A framework you host yourself, not a managed scraping service

How this score is made up

Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.

MCP support: 0 out of 100
API quality: 10 out of 100
Documentation: 50 out of 100
Agent friendliness: 61 out of 100
Changelog: 100 out of 100
Marketing site structure: 80 out of 100
Operational trust: 0 out of 100

Measured, but not part of the score

Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.

Openness: 60 out of 100
Maintenance: 100 out of 100

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