# scrapy/quotesbot

This is a sample Scrapy project for educational purposes

Repository: https://github.com/scrapy/quotesbot
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/quotesbot
Homepage: http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/intro/tutorial.html
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2023-11-29T22:31:31+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3627, "days_push": 1008, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1360, forks 788 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:29.869188+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: web-scraping, parser, developer-tools
- domain: crawlers, education, web-development, developer-tools
- platform: python, cross-platform, cli
- tags: scrapy, example-project, spiders, css-selectors, xpath, tutorial

## Member repositories
- scrapy/quotesbot (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:29.869188+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:41:40.348163+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/scrapy/quotesbot (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:29.869188+00:00, sha 5a52df56d146)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.