Web Scraping Tutorial with Scrapy and Python for Beginners - Extracting Links from href Attributes

The video tutorial explains how to handle pagination in web scraping using Scrapy. It covers the process of navigating through paginated web pages, extracting URLs from pagination buttons, and efficiently managing these URLs in a scraping script. The tutorial also demonstrates how to inspect HTML elements to identify pagination links and use CSS selectors to target these elements. Finally, it shows how to run a Scrapy spider to scrape data from multiple pages.

What is the purpose of the next button in the pagination process?

Explain how to retrieve the link from the next button's code.

What is the significance of the href attribute in the context of the next button?

Describe the process of adding the next page URL to the start URLs list.

How does string formatting help in constructing the next page URL?

What happens when you click on the next page URL?

In the context of web scraping, why is it important to handle pagination?