README.md

scrapy-intro

Introduction to Scrapy presentation for CharPy meetup Sep. 25, 2013

To run the demo:

1. Download and install these packages

• Virtual Box, http://www.virtualbox.org/
• Vagrant, http://www.vagrantup.com/

2. Fire up the virtual machine and log in

git clone https://github.com/dmkoch/scrapy-intro
cd scrapy-intro
vagrant up
vagrant ssh

3. Install PyPI requirements

pip install -r /vagrant/requirements.txt

4. Run the spider

cd /vagrant/newsbot
scrapy crawl cnn -o articles.json

To build the presentation:

cd /vagrant
make
# presentation is created here: build/presentation.html