From b1063d9b2ca1a6bfb947fdd8b0158633184114ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Adri=C3=A1n=20Chaves?= Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 17:22:49 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Use the description from README.rst on index.rst --- docs/index.rst | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst index 0a96aa88e..cedde8f38 100644 --- a/docs/index.rst +++ b/docs/index.rst @@ -4,7 +4,13 @@ Scrapy |version| documentation ============================== -This documentation contains everything you need to know about Scrapy. +Scrapy is a fast high-level `web crawling`_ and `web scraping`_ framework, used +to crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages. It can be used +for a wide range of purposes, from data mining to monitoring and automated +testing. + +.. _web crawling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler +.. _web scraping: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping Getting help ============