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Deploying a web crawler

Deploying a web crawler online or on a live server will certainly improve the effectiveness of the crawling activity, with its speed, updated technology, web spaces, anytime usage, and so on. Local tests and confirmation are required before deploying online. We need to own or buy web spaces with web-hosting companies or the cloud server.

Scrapy Cloud at https://scrapinghub.com/scrapy-cloud from Scrapinghub at https://scrapinghub.com/ is one of the best platforms to deploy and manage the Scrapy Spider. The Scrapy Cloud provides an easy and interactive interface to deploy Scrapy and is free, with some of the additional features listed here:

Coding/managing and running Spider
Deploying Spider to cloud
Downloading and ...

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