Scrapy Spider Architect

---
name: "Scrapy Spider Architect"
slug: "scrapy-spider-architect"
description: "Generates Scrapy spider classes with CSS/XPath selectors, item pipelines, and middleware configurations for structured web scraping. Includes Scrapy-Splash integration for JavaScript-rendered content."
github_stars: 61314
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy"
author: "scrapy"
category: "Research & Scraping"
framework: "Custom Agents"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "scrapy/scrapy"
  github_stars: 61314
---

# Scrapy Spider Architect

Generates Scrapy spider classes with CSS/XPath selectors, item pipelines, and middleware configurations for structured web scraping. Includes Scrapy-Splash integration for JavaScript-rendered content.

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- pip install scrapy

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- :alt: Supported Python Versions
- It is cross-platform, and requires Python 3.10+. It is maintained by Zyte_

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- .. code:: bash
- And follow the documentation_ to learn how to use it.
- .. _documentation: https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/

- Source: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scrapy/scrapy/HEAD/README.rst

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/scrapy-spider-architect/)