It works! I have plans for building an HMM capable of recognizing language of origin from a word's orthographical form.
After you have scrapy installed you can run it with the following command while in the project directory. This will create a large JSON file of word and origins pairs.
scrapy crawl etymonline.com -o etymonline_data.json -t json -s LOG_FILE=etymonline_data.log -L WARNING-L used to set Log levels.