Having trouble with your scrapy setup? Need help getting started? or What’s the best way to handle a

CAPTCHAs are the worst. I ended up using scrapy-splash for JS-heavy sites. It’s a bit slower but handles rendering better.

For timeouts, check your retry settings too. RETRY_TIMES and RETRY_HTTP_CODES in settings.py can save you.

And yeah, docs are good but the scrapy community on GitHub is gold for niche issues.