Setting up
To run Crawlee on your computer, ensure you meet the following requirements:
You can verify these by running the following commands:
python --version
pip --version
Installation
Crawlee is available as the crawlee
PyPI package.
pip install crawlee
Additional, optional dependencies unlocking more features are shipped as package extras.
If you plan to use BeautifulSoupCrawler
, install crawlee
with beautifulsoup
extra:
pip install 'crawlee[beautifulsoup]'
If you plan to use PlaywrightCrawler
, install crawlee
with the playwright
extra:
pip install 'crawlee[playwright]'
Then, install the Playwright dependencies:
playwright install
You can install multiple extras at once by using a comma as a separator:
pip install 'crawlee[beautifulsoup,playwright]'
Verify that Crawlee is successfully installed:
python -c 'import crawlee; print(crawlee.__version__)'
Next steps
Next, you will learn how to create a very simple crawler and u Crawlee components while building it.