Web Scraping Tutorial with Scrapy and Python for Beginners

Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. In this course, you'll start by learning the fundamentals of web scraping, including what it is and how it works. You'll be introduced to Scrapy, one of the most powerful and widely-used Python frameworks for web scraping, and get hands-on experience setting it up on various operating systems. As you progress, you'll dive into core Scrapy com…