This is a Scrapy project to scrape quotes from famous people from http://quotes.toscrape.com (github repo).

This project is only meant for educational purposes.

This project extracts quotes, combined with the respective author names and tags. The extracted data looks like this sample:

{
    'author': 'Douglas Adams',
    'text': '“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I ...”',
    'tags': ['life', 'navigation']
}

This project contains two spiders and you can list them using the list command:

$ scrapy list
toscrape-css
toscrape-xpath

Both spiders extract the same data from the same website, but toscrape-css employs CSS selectors, while toscrape-xpath employs XPath expressions.

You can learn more about the spiders by going through the Scrapy Tutorial.

You can run a spider using the scrapy crawl command, such as:

$ scrapy crawl toscrape-css

If you want to save the scraped data to a file, you can pass the -o option:

$ scrapy crawl toscrape-css -o quotes.json