Annotation

At the Portia start page, the page prompts you to enter a project. Once you enter that text, then there is a textbox to enter the URL of the website you want to scrape, such as http://example.webscraping.com.

When you've typed that, Portia will then load the project view:

Once you click the New Spider button, you will see the following Spider view:

You will start to recognize some of the fields from the Scrapy spider we already built earlier in this chapter (such as start pages and link crawling rules). By default, the spider name ...

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