Web Scraping Tutorial with Scrapy and Python for Beginners - How to Follow Links

This video tutorial covers the use of the Scrapy request class to extract URLs from websites and send requests from a spider. It explains how to follow links, set up custom callbacks, and scrape data such as product details. The tutorial demonstrates using the Scrapy shell to fetch and inspect responses, and how to handle these responses to extract information using CSS selectors. Advanced techniques like using regular expressions for data extraction are also discussed.

What is the purpose of using the Scrapy request class?

How can we extract URLs from a website using Scrapy?

What information can we extract from a product details page?

Describe the process of sending a request to a product details page.

What does a 200 status code indicate when fetching a response?

How can we select the availability data from the response?

What is the significance of using regular expressions in data extraction?