scrapy-cffi 0.2.1

An asyncio-style web scraping framework inspired by Scrapy, powered by curl_cffi.

scrapy_cffi

An asyncio-style web scraping framework inspired by Scrapy, powered by curl_cffi.

scrapy_cffi is a lightweight asynchronous crawling framework that mimics the Scrapy architecture while replacing Twisted with curl_cffi as the underlying HTTP/WebSocket client. It is designed to be efficient, extensible, and suitable for both simple tasks and complex distributed crawlers.

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✨ Features

• Familiar Scrapy-style components: spiders, items, interceptors, pipelines
• Fully asyncio-based engine
• Built-in support for HTTP and WebSocket requests
• Lightweight signal system
• Plug-in ready interceptor and task manager design
• Redis-compatible scheduler (optional)
• Designed for high-concurrency crawling

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📦 Installation

From PyPI

pip install scrapy_cffi

From source

unstable on github

git clone https://github.com/aFunnyStrange/scrapy_cffi.git
cd curl_cffi
pip install -e .

🚀 Quick Start

scrapy-cffi startproject <project_name>
cd <project_name>
scrapy-cffi genspider <spider_name> <domain>
python runner.py

Notes:

The CLI command is scrapy_cffi in versions ≤0.1.4 and scrapy-cffi in versions >0.1.4 for improved usability.

📖 Documentation

Technical module-level documentation can be found in the docs/ directory on GitHub. Each core component (engine, downloader, middleware, etc.) has its own .md file.

📄 License

This project is licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License. Portions of the code (specifically item.py) are adapted from the Scrapy project. See LICENSE for details.