We can inform Scrapy to limit the crawl to only pages within a specified set of domains. This is an important task, as links can point to anywhere on the web, and we often want to control where crawls end up going. Scrapy makes this very easy to do. All that needs to be done is setting the allowed_domains field of your scraper class.
Limiting crawling to a single domain
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