Introduction to Item Loaders
Item loaders, allow a smoother way, to manage scraped data. Many times, we may need to process, the data we scrape. This processing can be:
- Refining or editing the text present.
- Replacing any characters present, with another, or, replace missing data, with proper characters.
- Strip undesired characters.
- Clean whitespace characters.
In this article, we will do the following processing –
- Remove, the ‘£’ (pound) currency, from the Book Price.
- Replace, the ‘&’ sign wherever present in the Book title, with ‘AND’.
Scrapy – Item Loaders
In this article, we are going to discuss Item Loaders in Scrapy.
Scrapy is used for extracting data, using spiders, that crawl through the website. The obtained data can also be processed, in the form, of Scrapy Items. The Item Loaders play a significant role, in parsing the data, before populating the Item fields. In this article, we will learn about Item Loaders.
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