Scrapy Review 2026

Scrapy is the most widely used Python web scraping framework — 55,000+ GitHub stars, powering 34% of production scrapers. Here is the complete guide to running Scrapy in 2026.

What You Need to Know

• Scrapy framework is free and open source
• Real production cost: $100-200/month (proxies + VPS)
• 200-1000+ requests per minute on static HTML
• JavaScript rendering via scrapy-playwright middleware
• Full proxy and CAPTCHA middleware support

Best For

High-volume crawling of product catalogs, news archives, real estate listings and any target with thousands to millions of static HTML pages.