PyRank
scrapy

scrapy

Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.
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scrapy has 6.2M monthly downloads and 63K GitHub stars. Version 2.17.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2009.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jul 2026.

It is built on top of cryptography, cssselect and defusedxml. It is used by 407 tracked packages, including scrapy-playwright, scrapy-zyte-api and advertools.

GitHub topics include scraping, crawling and framework.

Downloads
Day
98.5K
Week
1.1M
Month
6.2M
Stars
63.0K
Forks
11.8K
Issues
402
Version
2.17.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
97
Adoption
60
Community
80
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3 days ago
Monthly downloads
6,190,530
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
6,190,530
Stars
62,951
Stars per 1k downloads
10.17
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
• Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
158,693
Month daily avg
206,351
Momentum
-23.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
• Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
BSD-3-Clause
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
1 days ago
Total releases
112
Releases/year
6.8
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
• Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
622
Monthly downloads
6,190,530
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
87
 
Issue Burden
6.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.4
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
5.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 54.4K
Windows 1.3K
macOS 433

Python Versions

3.11
37.0% 18.6K
3.12
25.5% 12.8K
3.13
15.4% 7.8K
3.10
12.1% 6.1K
2.7
10.0% 5.0K

Top Countries

1. US US
39.5K
2. RU RU
7.3K
3. DE DE
2.2K
4. NL NL
1.8K
5. IE IE
1.3K
6. AU AU
750
7. CN CN
725
8. KR KR
704
9. SG SG
556
10. IN IN
537
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
December 12, 2009
Last Release
Yesterday
Last Commit
3 days ago
Latest Version
2.17.0
Total Releases
112
Contributors
622
Open PRs
187
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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