Executed and Managed Scrapy Spiders for Data Extraction

📅 2024-03-22 — Session: Executed and Managed Scrapy Spiders for Data Extraction

🕒 04:45–06:10
🏷️ Labels: Scrapy, Web Scraping, Data Extraction, Python, File Management
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The primary objective of this session was to manage and execute web scraping tasks using Scrapy spiders, specifically focusing on the CategoriasSpider for product data extraction and addressing file management issues in the pipeline.

Key Activities

• Scrapy Spider Execution Summary: Reviewed the execution results of a Scrapy spider, including metrics on requests, responses, and items processed.
• Managing CategoriasSpider: Provided guidelines for using the CategoriasSpider class to ethically scrape product data from the Precios Claros website.
• Running CategoriasSpider: Executed the CategoriasSpider class in a Scrapy project, detailing setup and execution processes.
• Fixing File Naming Issue: Resolved a FileNotFoundError in the web scraping pipeline by adjusting filename formats and ensuring directory existence.

Achievements

• Successfully executed and managed Scrapy spiders for data extraction.
• Addressed and resolved file naming issues in the pipeline.

Pending Tasks

• Review and optimize the scraped data for further processing and analysis.