Python Scrapy Tutorial #4 – Items & Item Loaders

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Welcome to the fourth episode of the Python Scrapy Tutorial Series! In this video, we dive into using Items and Item Loaders — tools that help you structure, clean, and manage your scraped data effectively in Scrapy.

🔍 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

– How to define Scrapy Item classes to structure your scraped data.
– Using ItemLoader to clean and populate fields from raw HTML.
– Applying input and output processors like MapCompose, TakeFirst, and Join.
– Writing reusable data transformation functions.
– Integrating Items and Loaders into your existing spider workflow.

🧩 Learn About:

– Why Items are better than plain dictionaries for scraped data.
– How to normalize and clean data as it’s scraped.
– Using CSS/XPath selectors inside Item Loaders.
– Debugging and best practices for scalable scraping projects.

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