scrapy/quotesbot resource
This is a sample Scrapy project for educational purposes observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 3627
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1008
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1360 stars · 788 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
A sample Scrapy project that scrapes quotes, authors, and tags from quotes.toscrape.com using two spiders (CSS selectors and XPath). It is intended purely for educational purposes to accompany the Scrapy tutorial.
Use cases
- learn how to write a scrapy spider
- example of css selectors vs xpath in scrapy
- practice web scraping with python
- scrape quotes from a website
- understand scrapy project structure
- export scraped data to
When to choose
- you are learning Scrapy and want a minimal working example
- you want to compare CSS selector and XPath spider implementations
- you need a sandbox site and sample code for a scraping tutorial
When to avoid
- you need a production-ready scraper for real websites
- you want a general-purpose scraping framework (use Scrapy itself)
- you need maintained tooling with active feature development
Facets
learning-resource · maturity maintenance
web-scraping parser developer-tools crawlers education web-development developer-tools python cross-platform cli scrapy example-project spiders css-selectors xpath tutorial
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/scrapy/quotesbot · fetched 2026-08-28 · 5a52df56d146
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| scrapy/quotesbot | main | 32 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="scrapy/quotesbot")
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