Web Scraping Tutorial with Scrapy and Python for Beginners - Building a Python Spider to Scrape Data from Websites

Web Scraping Tutorial with Scrapy and Python for Beginners - Building a Python Spider to Scrape Data from Websites

Assessment

Interactive Video

Information Technology (IT), Architecture

University

Hard

Created by

Quizizz Content

FREE Resource

The video tutorial explains how to create a web scraping spider using Scrapy in Python. It covers the creation of a spider class, inheriting from Scrapy's spider, setting start URLs, defining the parse method to handle responses, and extracting data using CSS selectors. The tutorial demonstrates how to yield extracted data into a file, focusing on scraping ebook titles and prices.

Read more

5 questions

Show all answers

1.

OPEN ENDED QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

What is the purpose of creating a spider in Scrapy?

Evaluate responses using AI:

OFF

2.

OPEN ENDED QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

How do you define the start URLs in a Scrapy spider?

Evaluate responses using AI:

OFF

3.

OPEN ENDED QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

What method is used to process the response received from a request in Scrapy?

Evaluate responses using AI:

OFF

4.

OPEN ENDED QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

Explain how data is selected from the response in a Scrapy spider.

Evaluate responses using AI:

OFF

5.

OPEN ENDED QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

What happens to the extracted values in a Scrapy spider after they are yielded?

Evaluate responses using AI:

OFF