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TL;DR: Scrapy-Playwright lets you render JavaScript-heavy pages directly inside Scrapy spiders by controlling real Chromium, Firefox, or WebKit browsers through Playwright. This tutorial walks you through installation, configuration, page interactions, AJAX interception, anti-detection, and a production-ready project structure so you can scrape dynamic sites without leaving the Scrapy ecosystem.
Scrape Expedia hotel listings with Python using JS rendering, proxies, CSS selectors, and pagination, then clean and export data to CSV.
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TL;DR: Scrapy is a high-speed, asynchronous crawling framework built for extracting structured data from static pages at scale. Selenium automates real browsers and handles JavaScript-heavy sites, but at a much higher resource cost. Most production scraping projects benefit from knowing when to use each, or when to combine them.
TL;DR: Scrapy is a full crawling framework that handles requests, parsing, and data export in one package. Beautiful Soup is a lightweight parsing library you pair with an HTTP client like requests. Choose Scrapy when you need large-scale, concurrent crawling with built-in pipelines. Choose Beautiful Soup when you want a fast, minimal setup for parsing a handful of pages.
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