Web Scraping Tutorial with Scrapy and Python for Beginners - Setting Up Custom Callback Function

The video tutorial explains how to use Scrapy to scrape data from a website. It starts with selecting ebook items using Scrapy shell and proceeds to demonstrate how to create a URL and send a request using Scrapy. The tutorial also covers how to handle responses with the default parse method and how to define custom parse methods using callbacks for specific URLs, such as product details pages.

What is the purpose of using the C selector in Scrapy?

• To create a new URL

• To select and extract specific elements from the HTML

• To send HTTP requests

• To define a custom callback method

How can you specify the URL in a Scrapy request?

• By using a dictionary

• By using a list

• By using keyword arguments

• By using a loop

What happens by default when Scrapy sends a request and receives a response?

• The request is sent again

• The response is ignored

• The parse method is called

• The URL is changed

Why would you define a custom callback method in Scrapy?

• To change the base URL

• To handle different types of responses

• To select different HTML elements

• To stop the request from being sent

What is the role of the callback keyword argument in a Scrapy request?

• To specify the HTTP method

• To determine the request timeout

• To define the function that processes the response

• To set the request headers