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Python 3 scrapy Library Script to Build Spider to Crawl Website URL's and Generate XML Sitemap File
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Jun 3, 2025
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uh hello guys welcome to this video So
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in this video I will show you a new
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Python package which is scrappy Scrappy
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is a very popular library inside Python
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It's a crawler kind of a crawler spider
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which is used for web scraping It's a
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web crawling framework and using this
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library we'll be building a simple
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sitemap generator for our website So
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this is their website official website
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Here's scrappy It's an open-source
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Python scraping library So the command
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is simple First of all install this
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library pip install scrappy I've already
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installed it Now to install Now to
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basically make a brand new project you
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come to the command line and simply
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execute this command here which is
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scrappy S C R A P Y scrappy start
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project and then followed by your
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project name So let's suppose I say
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sitemap gen So this is a command here
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scrappy start project sitemap gen So
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whatever your your project name So
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simply enter and then it will start it
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will create your project inside this
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directory So it is giving you
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instructions that cd into this directory
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and
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then start this So I will see cd into
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this
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So if you try to open this it will look
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something like this This is a basic
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structure of a scrappy project This is
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your project name and a set of spiders
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are there Inside this you will see this
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folder spiders is there Go to this
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folder and create your own spider So
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let's suppose I say I want to create
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a
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sitemap
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spider You can define your own spider
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This can be any name but I'm just
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calling it as sitemap spider is equal to
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py So right here you define your spider
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So I will first of all import the
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scrappy package like this And then we
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also need from
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scrappy
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spiders we need to import the crawl
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spider and the root And then from
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scrappy dot link
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extractors we need to
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import link extractor And then from XML
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dot
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E3 after importing all these packages
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now we just need to initialize the class
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here which will be responsible for
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sitemap
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spider and here we'll be passing this
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crawl spider
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Inside this function you first of all
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name your spider whatever is your spider
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name So I will say sitemap
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spider and whatever is the allowed
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domains So here you will paste your
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domain name So I will paste my own
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domain name which is free media
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tools.com I need to generate a sitemap
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of this So after
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that then we will basically create
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another variable here start
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URLs again you need to paste the same
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URL
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http alongside with
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https so here you don't need to write
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https but here you need to write https
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So after
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that we now need to write some rules
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that need to be followed while crawling
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the website So right
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here we define rules like this link
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extractor we also have the call back
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function as well So parse item follow is
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equal to true So this is the thing
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So after that we define a function After
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this we define a function
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parse
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item self
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response we get the URL response dot
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URL self dots save URL
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We'll save the sitemap file So here you
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can name your sitemap whatever you want
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to So I'm just naming it as
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sitemap.xml So after
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that here we write this to save the site
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map So you
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basically construct the site
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map using the URLs which are crawled
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like this and then we contain the right
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method right here to actually write the
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site map at that appropriate location So
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if I run this
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project so the command to run this
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project is really simple You simply
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say you say scrappy and then c r a w l
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scrappy crawl followed by your sitemap
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spider name
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So whatever is your name of the spider
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that you have given sitemap spider
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So just enter
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it and after that the application will
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run and it will create a site
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map Just need to make sure that you
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whatever you call this
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So I think I made a mistake here
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So now you can see it is crawling the
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website here as you can
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see In this easy way you can replace any
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URL So in this way you can see we are
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crawling geeks forge geeks.org org But
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uh here I can replace my own website
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free media tools There was just a typo
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mistake what was there So again if I run
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this
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now so you can see
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So in this way you can do this very
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easily Sorry I made a mistake here This
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need free media tools.com not that was
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the problem
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So now you can see it is crawling my
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website
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freemediatools.com each page and it is
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constructing the site map using this
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scrapey library I found it this library
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to be very useful guys It can actually
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it's a very good web scraping library
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and it can crawl
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anything So you can see it is crawling
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each page and it is storing it inside
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the sitemap file So once it is completed
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it will give you a notification that
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your process has been completed So you
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can use this library I have given all
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the script in the description of the
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video So if you want to get the full
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source code the link is given in the
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description
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So you can see it is crawling each and
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every page and inside the sitemap file
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and can format the
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document So in this way you can
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construct the site map very easily using
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this script So thank you very much for
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watching this video and uh also check
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out my website
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freemediattools.com which contains
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thousands of tools