Scrapy — What It Is and How to Handle It

Scrapy is a popular open-source Python web scraping framework by Zyte, used for data extraction and web crawling at scale.

Operator: Zyte | Type: Scraper | Category: Scraper

Scrapy is classified as scraper. Use Centinel to monitor its behavior and decide whether to allow, block, challenge, or monetize its access to your content.

Centinel automatically detects Scrapy using behavioral fingerprinting. When detected, you can allow it, block it, challenge it with an interstitial page, or set a per-request licensing fee — all enforced in real-time with under 2ms latency.