I've used Beautiful Soup (BS) and Scrapy BS is a _lot_ slower than Scrapy, although you can probably get up and running with BS first (it also more noob friend

I've used Beautiful Soup (BS) and Scrapy BS is a _lot_ slower than Scrapy, although you can probably get up and running with BS first (it also more noob friendly imho since you don't have to learn yet another framework). Learning Scrapy was made easier after some experience with BS.