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Using Scrapy
============

This section describes all key concepts of Scrapy.

Chapter 1. Main topics
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   architecture
   shell
   spiders
   items
   loaders
   selectors
   request-response

Chapter 2. Extension Mechanisms
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   item-pipeline
   downloader-middleware
   spider-middleware
   scheduler-middleware
   extensions

Chapter 3. Services
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   settings
   logging
   signals
   stats
   email

Chapter 4. Administration consoles
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   webconsole
   telnetconsole

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Chapter 5. Reference
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   exceptions
   link-extractors

Appendix 1: Third party tools
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   firefox
   firebug