Scrapy is a powerful and fast open-source web scraping framework for Python. It is used to extract data from websites, automate web crawling, and build scalable web spiders. Scrapy provides an efficient way to navigate and scrape large-scale websites while handling various challenges like pagination, request throttling, and data storage.

• Built-in support for handling requests, responses, and data extraction efficiently.
• Uses an asynchronous architecture for high-performance web crawling.
• Provides selectors like XPath and CSS for parsing and extracting structured data.
• Supports middleware for handling cookies, headers, proxies, and user agents.
• Can export data to multiple formats like JSON, CSV, and XML.
• Integrates with databases and cloud services for large-scale data storage.

To Check the Scrapy version:
$ scrapy version