Web Scraping30 min read

Documentation and Handover

Learn how to document your scraper so anyone can run, maintain, and extend it without confusion.

David Miller
December 21, 2025
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A scraper without docs becomes useless after some months.

Good documentation answers: - what it does - how to run it - how to configure - where data goes - common errors

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README example outline

``` # Project Name

What it does Scrapes product prices from example.com

Setup pip install -r requirements.txt

Run python main.py

Config Edit config.py

Output Data saved to SQLite DB

Notes Respect robots.txt ```

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Inline code comments

```python # Fetch HTML from target URL html = fetch(url) ```

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Graph: knowledge transfer

```mermaid flowchart LR A[Developer] --> B[Docs] B --> C[Next Maintainer] ```

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Remember - Write README - Explain configs and outputs - Your future self will thank you

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