Scrapy
High-level, asynchronous web crawling & scraping framework with spiders, pipelines, middlewares, and selectors.
79
Hero Score
Popularity
76
Performance
100
Ecosystem
75
Maturity
85
Dev Experience
57
⭐ 62,045 stars⬇ 1.5M downloads/wkFirst release: Dec 2009Last release: May 2026
Async Support: YesPlugin Extensions: HighSpeed: Very fastDoc Quality: HighLearning Curve: Medium
Pros
- • Async, production-ready crawling with Twisted; scales well
- • Strong community, examples, and docs
- • Built-in selectors (parsel) & robust middleware system
Cons
- • Heavier setup than simple parsers
- • Learning curve for full framework concepts
- • Overkill for small one-off parses