scrapy-playwright VS scrapy-splash

scrapy-playwright is an integration between Scrapy and Playwright. It enables scraping dynamic web pages with Scrapy by processing the web scraping requests using a Playwright instance.

To integrate Playwright with Scrapy, we will use the scrapy-playwright library. Then, we will scrape https://www.mintmobile.com/product/google-pixel-7-pro-bundle/ to demonstrate how to extract data from a website using Playwright and Scrapy.

Scrapy-playwright

your website is a dynamic there is many integration on scrappy can help you This the best best one https://github.com/scrapy-plugins/scrapy-playwright

This concern should be lifted if you are a Scrapy lover. There is a Scrapy integration for playwright, that gives you a lot of freedom and lets you operate from a Scrapy spider.

Now we need to modify scrapy's settings to allow it to work with playwright. Instructions can be found on playwright's GitHub page. We need to add settings for DOWNLOAD_HANDLERS and TWISTED_REACTOR. New settings that were added can be found between ###. This is what the settings file should look like:

You can use something like scrapy-playwright[0] to run a headless browser framework as your download handler. I think there are versions for some of the other headless systems, if you prefer those.

[0] https://github.com/scrapy-plugins/scrapy-playwright

[1]: https://github.com/scrapy-plugins/scrapy-playwright/issues/61

I have also modified the settings.py from according to steps 1-5 from https://github.com/scrapy-plugins/scrapy-splash

To add to u/nemec, here are the docs for scrapy splash which I’ve used several times (and just requires you to spin up their docker container to get started): https://github.com/scrapy-plugins/scrapy-splash

Your best bet is scrapy splash as you're dealing with dynamically generated html: https://github.com/scrapy-plugins/scrapy-splash