Scrapy (/ˈskreɪpi/ SKRAY-pee) is a free and open source web crawling framework, written in Python. Originally designed for web scraping, it can also be used to extract data using APIs or as a general purpose web crawler. It is currently maintained by Scrapinghub Ltd., a web scraping development and services company.Scrapy project architecture is built around ‘spiders’, which are self-contained crawlers which are given a set of instructions.