Scrapy is a fast open-source high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework written in python, used to crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages. It can be used for a wide range of purposes, from data mining to monitoring and automated testing.

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How to optimize a pipline for storing item in mysql?

I am using scrapy framework for data scraping and dumping item in MySQL database. Here is my pipeline that is inserting output to MySQL, but its taking so much time. Any suggestions on how to ...
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python / scrapy default initialization of items

i am writing a scraper, using scrapy , in which i need to populate item with default values at first , is there any good way to populate items with default values other then my code logic def ...
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python / scrapy code optimization

i wrote this code in python/ scrapy for data extraction it works fine for me but i am newbie in python so any suggestions for code optimization would be welcomed , and thanks in advance. def ...