01-03-startScrapyProject (part 3 in series 16:39)

01

Be in the directory where you created the venv, Type,

scrapy

To see available command, we want startproject

scrapy startproject <project name>

02

Type startproject command for scrapy followed by the name you want

scrapy startproject bookscraper

03

Change into the bookscraper directory, Then into the sub directory bookscraper, same name as parent.

This has all the files for the spider to run, the parents has this whole directory and the scrapy.cfg file

cd bookscraper

03

Go back after doing more of the project and explain each default folder and class, He starts explaining it around 20:20

  • create bookscraper.py
  • adjust items
  • adjust pipelines
  • adjust middlewares