# Scrapfly reviews nine Scrapy extensions and middlewares for 2026

> Scrapfly tested nine Scrapy extensions and middlewares against Scrapy 2.18, covering rendering, TLS fingerprints, proxies, extraction, shared queues, and deployment.

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- Beat: Open Source & Tooling · Evidence: Primary source · Type/significance: analysis/2 · First seen: 2026-09-05T14:58:11.129344+00:00 · Updated: 2026-09-05T14:58:11.129344+00:00 · Edition: 2026-09-06
- Framing: model-written (headline, standfirst, why it matters, tags); source facts deterministic

## Briefing
- Scrapfly: Scrapfly tested nine Scrapy extensions and middlewares against Scrapy 2.18, covering rendering, TLS fingerprints, proxies, extraction, shared queues, and deployment.

## Why it matters
Scrapy remains a core tool for many extraction workflows, but its ecosystem of third-party extensions can be hard to evaluate. This roundup gives practitioners a curated, up-to-date reference for common integration needs, saving time that would otherwise be spent testing compatibility with the latest Scrapy release.

## Sources
- Primary source · Scrapfly · 2026-08-31 — [9 Scrapy Extensions and Middlewares for 2026](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/best-scrapy-extensions-middlewares)

## Watch next
Which of these extensions have seen active maintenance since the review was published?

Topics: Scrapfly, Scrapy, scrapy, extensions, middlewares, web-scraping, tls-fingerprinting, proxies, rendering

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