“scrapy” became my alter ego.
it all started with my first ever python project, a simple web scraper that pulled headlines from top news sites.
i used the scrapy library by @ScrapyProject.
it wasn’t much, just a script.
but it was the first thing i built that actually worked.
and that made it special.
later, i realized something funny: most of my ideas felt like fragments, messy, raw, not yet stitched together.
so the word “scrapy” stuck.
i even launched a few nft projects under the name “ScrapyNFTs”, none of them took off (my art was pretty scrapy too lol).
nfts introduced me to web3, which led me to explore blockchain…
and eventually evolve into @scrapychain.
10 years after the release of 1.0, Scrapy has become table stakes for modern web scraping projects. Creator Shane Evans talks through Scrapy's current position in the industry.
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Before powering massive scraping operations globally, #Scrapy started as a workaround at a startup that needed structured data fast. @zytedata CEO and Scrapy creator Shane Evans takes a look at those early days of Scrapy 👇
#ScrapyAnniversary#WebScraping
Scrapy didn’t start in a lab. It started in a startup.
From solving real-world data problems to becoming one of the most trusted scraping frameworks out there—here’s how it all began.
👉 https://t.co/LfZ5758lQU
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Scrapy 2.6.1 is out, with security fixes around cookies also backported to Scrapy 1.8.2.
But it is not just security fixes! There is official Python 3.10 support, asyncio support no longer being experimental, and new features for feed exports:
https://t.co/I2QMP02s81
We have released Scrapy 2.5.1 and Scrapy 1.8.1, which fix a security issue that could lead to the leak of HTTP authentication credentials to target websites.
Find out more in the release notes: https://t.co/S5JwOK6t3U