Using Django database layer outside of Django?

I’ve got a nice database I’ve created in Django, and I’d like to interface with through some python scripts outside of my website stuff, so I’m curious if it’s possible to use the Django database API outside of a Django site, and if so does anyone have any info on how it can be done? Google hasn’t yielded many hits for this.

How can I use executemany to insert into MySQL a list of dictionaries in Python

I’m currently using MySQL and Python to scrape data from the web. Specifically, I am scraping table data and inserting it into my database. My current solution works, but I feel it is extremely inefficient and will most likely lock up my database if I don’t rewrite the code. Here is what I currently use (partial code):