Web Scraping Tutorial with Scrapy and Python for Beginners - Selecting and Extracting Data using CSS Selector and Xpath

The video tutorial explains how to use CSS selectors and XPath to select data in web scraping. It covers methods like 'get' and 'get all' for extracting data, and compares them with the 'extract' method from older Scrapy versions. The tutorial highlights the differences and similarities between these methods, emphasizing the transition from 'extract' to 'get' and 'get all' for better readability and functionality.

What is the purpose of the 'text' selector in Scrapy?

• To select attributes

• To select text content

• To select elements

• To select all data

Describe how to get the first title using the extract method.

• Use extract first

• Use get method

• Use get all method

• Use CSS selector