Web Scraping Tutorial with Scrapy and Python for Beginners - Logging into Websites with FormRequest

This video tutorial explains how to use Scrapy to log into a website by sending form data to a specific URL. It covers setting up a Scrapy spider, configuring form requests with user credentials, handling responses, and extracting data from HTML structures. The tutorial demonstrates running the spider to verify successful login and data extraction.

What is the first step in logging into a website using Scrapy?

• Sending a GET request to the homepage

• Modifying the HTML of the login page

• Sending form data to a specific URL

• Using a proxy server to mask the IP

What method is used in Scrapy to send data along with a request?

• FormRequest

• POST request

• GET request

• DataRequest

How is form data passed in a Scrapy FormRequest?

• As a plain text string

• As a dictionary of key-value pairs

• As a list of tuples

• As a JSON object

What is the default callback method for handling responses in Scrapy?

• self.process

• self.parse

• self.handle_response

• self.callback

Which CSS selector is used to extract data from the response in the example?

• div.container > div.row > div

• header.main > nav.menu

• footer.info > ul.list

• span.data > p.text