Ugh, I feel you. Scrapy setup had me pulling my hair out too.
The errors might be from missing settings.py tweaks. Try adding `USER_AGENT` and `ROBOTSTXT_OBEY` in there—sometimes that fixes weird issues.
Pipelines are for processing scraped data (like saving to CSV), and middlewares are for requests/responses. You don’t *need* ‘em right away, but they’re handy later.
Also, Scrapy’s debug logs (`scrapy crawl yourspider --loglevel=DEBUG`) saved me so many times.
The errors might be from missing settings.py tweaks. Try adding `USER_AGENT` and `ROBOTSTXT_OBEY` in there—sometimes that fixes weird issues.
Pipelines are for processing scraped data (like saving to CSV), and middlewares are for requests/responses. You don’t *need* ‘em right away, but they’re handy later.
Also, Scrapy’s debug logs (`scrapy crawl yourspider --loglevel=DEBUG`) saved me so many times.