Web Scraping is one of the skills that every Data Science professional should know. Web scraping means collecting data from a website you want for a particular task. There are many Python libraries that you can use to collect data from a website, one of them is PyScrappy which is an amazing Python library to collect data from websites like online shopping, social media, search engines, News, etc. So if you have never used the PyScrappy library in Python before then this article is for you. In this article, I will take you through a tutorial on PyScrappy in Python.

PyScrappy in Python

PyScrappy is an amazing Python library that can be used to collect data from websites like Flipkart, Alibaba, Snapdeal, Instagram, YouTube, Google, Yahoo, Bing, Wikipedia, and Yahoo Finance. It covers all the functions that you can easily use to collect data from websites in just a few lines of code. If you find it difficult to collect data and prepare it in the form of a DataFrame to use the collected data for further analysis then PyScrappy is for you as from collecting data to storing it to a DataFrame it does it all in just a few lines of code.

If you have never used this Python library before then you can easily install it in your system by using the pip command:

  • pip install PyScrappy

I hope you now have understood what is PyScrappy and what functionality it provides you to collect data from websites. Now in the section below, I will take you a tutorial on using PyScrappy to collect data from a website.

PyScrappy in Python (Tutorial)

To explain to you the use of this Python library for web scraping, I will use it to collect data from Flipkart:

                                                Name Price Original Price Description Rating 0  Qraa Men Hair and Beard Wax with Dead Sea Mine...  ₹399           ₹480       200 g    3.9 1  OLCY MG Long lasting super stylish hair pack o...  ₹299         ₹1,299      1200 g    4.6 2  urbangabru Hair Wax Zero To Infinity For Stron...  ₹299           ₹400       100 g    4.2 3  BEARDO Stronghold Hair Wax, 75 gm | Crystal Ha...  ₹215           ₹275        75 g    4.2 4            SET WET Matte Hair Styling Wax Hair Wax  ₹125           ₹170        60 g    4.1

In the above code, I have scrapped the search results about "Hair wax" from Flipkart. So this is how easy it is to use this library using Python to collect data from any website. Below are all the functions it provides to collect data from websites:

  1. abibaba_scrapper
  2. flipkart_scrapper
  3. image_scrapper
  4. instagram_scrapper
  5. snapdeal_scrapper
  6. wikipedia_scrapper
  7. youtube_scrapper

Summary

So this is how you can easily collect data from websites. PyScrappy is an amazing Python library that can be used to collect data from websites like Flipkart, Alibaba, Snapdeal, Instagram, YouTube, Google, Yahoo, Bing, Wikipedia, and Yahoo Finance. I hope you liked this article on a tutorial on PyScrappy to collect data from the internet. Feel free to ask your valuable questions in the comments section below.