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spider-generator

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Scaffold Scrapy spiders with best practices.

Software Engineering#scaffolding#generator#web-scraping#crawling#scrapy#spider
Authorgizix
Version1.0.0
Installs0

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What problem does it solve?

This Skill guides generating well-structured Scrapy spiders, applying industry best practices for error handling, rate limiting, and data extraction patterns to accelerate data gathering with fewer bugs.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Basic Spider templates with proper settings and data extraction patterns.
  • CrawlSpider templates with rules-based navigation for complex sites.
  • API Spider templates for JSON or API-based scraping.
  • Built-in guidance on error handling, retries, and polite crawling.

Quick Start

Use the spider-generator to scaffold a new spider named "my_spider" for "example.com", with start URL "https://example.com/products" and customize selectors as needed.

Dependency Matrix

Required Modules

None required

Components

Standard package

💻 Claude Code Installation

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Please help me install this Skill:
Name: spider-generator
Download link: https://github.com/gizix/cc_projects/archive/main.zip#spider-generator

Please download this .zip file, extract it, and install it in the .claude/skills/ directory.
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