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Scrapy file, only running the initial start_urls instead of running though the whole list

As the title states, I am trying to run my scrapy program, the issue I am running into is that it seems to be only returning the yield from the initial url (https://www.antaira.com/products/10-100Mbps).
I am unsure on where my program is not working, in my code I have also left some commented code on what I have attempted.
import scrapy
from ..items import AntairaItem
class ProductJumperFix(scrapy.Spider): # classes should be TitleCase
name = 'productJumperFix'
allowed_domains = ['antaira.com']
start_urls = [
'https://www.antaira.com/products/10-100Mbps',
'https://www.antaira.com/products/unmanaged-gigabit'
'https://www.antaira.com/products/unmanaged-10-100Mbps-PoE'
'https://www.antaira.com/products/Unmanaged-Gigabit-PoE'
'https://www.antaira.com/products/Unmanaged-10-gigabit'
'https://www.antaira.com/products/Unmanaged-10-gigabit-PoE'
]
#def start_requests(self):
# yield scrappy.Request(start_urls, self.parse)
def parse(self, response):
# iterate through each of the relative urls
for url in response.xpath('//div[#class="product-container"]//a/#href').getall():
product_link = response.urljoin(url) # use variable
yield scrapy.Request(product_link, callback=self.parse_new_item)
def parse_new_item(self, response):
for product in response.css('main.products'):
items = AntairaItem() # Unique item for each iteration
items['product_link'] = response.url # get the product link from response
name = product.css('h1.product-name::text').get().strip()
features = product.css(('section.features h3 + ul').strip()).getall()
overview = product.css('.products .product-overview::text').getall()
main_image = response.urljoin(product.css('div.selectors img::attr(src)').get())
rel_links = product.xpath("//script/#src[contains(., '/app/site/hosting/scriptlet.nl')]").getall()
items['name'] = name,
items['features'] = features,
items['overview'] = overview,
items['main_image'] = main_image,
items['rel_links'] = rel_links,
yield items
Thank you everyone!
Follow up question, for some reason when I run "scrapy crawl productJumperFix" im not getting any output from the terminal,not sure how to debug since I can't even see the output errors.

Try using the start_requests method:
For example:
import scrapy
from ..items import AntairaItem
class ProductJumperFix(scrapy.Spider):
name = 'productJumperFix'
allowed_domains = ['antaira.com']
def start_requests(self):
urls = [
'https://www.antaira.com/products/10-100Mbps',
'https://www.antaira.com/products/unmanaged-gigabit',
'https://www.antaira.com/products/unmanaged-10-100Mbps-PoE',
'https://www.antaira.com/products/Unmanaged-Gigabit-PoE',
'https://www.antaira.com/products/Unmanaged-10-gigabit',
'https://www.antaira.com/products/Unmanaged-10-gigabit-PoE',
]
for url in urls:
yield scrapy.Request(url, callback=self.parse)
def parse(self, response):
for url in response.xpath('//div[#class="product-container"]//a/#href').getall():
product_link = response.urljoin(url) # use variable
yield scrapy.Request(product_link, callback=self.parse_new_item)
def parse_new_item(self, response):
for product in response.css('main.products'):
items = AntairaItem()
items['product_link'] = response.url
name = product.css('h1.product-name::text').get().strip()
features = product.css(('section.features h3 + ul').strip()).getall()
overview = product.css('.products .product-overview::text').getall()
main_image = response.urljoin(product.css('div.selectors img::attr(src)').get())
rel_links = product.xpath("//script/#src[contains(., '/app/site/hosting/scriptlet.nl')]").getall()
items['name'] = name,
items['features'] = features,
items['overview'] = overview,
items['main_image'] = main_image,
items['rel_links'] = rel_links,
yield items

Web Scraping all Urls from a website with Scrapy and Python

I am writing a web scraper to fetch a group of links
(located at tree.xpath('//div[#class="work_area_content"]/a/#href')
from a website and return the Title and Url of all the leafs sectioned by the leafs parent. I have two scrapers: one in python and one in Scrapy for Python. What is the purpose of callbacks in the Scrapy Request method? Should the information be in a multidimensional or single dimension list ( I believe multi-dimensional but it enhances complication)? Which of the below code is better? If the scraper code is better, how do I migrate the python code to the Scrapy code?
From what I understand from callbacks is that it passes a function's arguments to another function; however, if the callback refers to itself, the data gets overwritten and therefore lost, and you're unable to go back to the root data. Is this correct?
python:
url_storage = [ [ [ [] ] ] ]
page = requests.get('http://1.1.1.1:1234/TestSuites')
tree = html.fromstring(page.content)
urls = tree.xpath('//div[#class="work_area_content"]/a/#href').extract()
i = 0
j = 0
k = 0
for i, url in enumerate(urls):
absolute_url = "".join(['http://1.1.1.1:1234/', url])
url_storage[i][j][k].append(absolute_url)
print(url_storage)
#url_storage.insert(i, absolute_url)
page = requests.get(url_storage[i][j][k])
tree2 = html.fromstring(page.content)
urls2 = tree2.xpath('//div[#class="work_area_content"]/a/#href').extract()
for j, url2 in enumerate(urls2):
absolute_url = "".join(['http://1.1.1.1:1234/', url2])
url_storage[i][j][k].append(absolute_url)
page = requests.get(url_storage[i][j][k])
tree3 = html.fromstring(page.content)
urls3 = tree3.xpath('//div[#class="work_area_content"]/a/#href').extract()
for k, url3 in enumerate(urls3):
absolute_url = "".join(['http://1.1.1.1:1234/', url3])
url_storage[i][j][k].append(absolute_url)
page = requests.get(url_storage[i][j][k])
tree4 = html.fromstring(page.content)
urls3 = tree4.xpath('//div[#class="work_area_content"]/a/#href').extract()
title = tree4.xpath('//span[#class="page_title"]/text()').extract()
yield Request(url_storage[i][j][k], callback=self.end_page_parse_TS, meta={"Title": title, "URL": urls3 })
#yield Request(absolute_url, callback=self.end_page_parse_TC, meta={"Title": title, "URL": urls3 })
def end_page_parse_TS(self, response):
print(response.body)
url = response.meta.get('URL')
title = response.meta.get('Title')
yield{'URL': url, 'Title': title}
def end_page_parse_TC(self, response):
url = response.meta.get('URL')
title = response.meta.get('Title')
description = response.meta.get('Description')
description = response.xpath('//table[#class="wiki_table]/tbody[contains(/td/text(), "description")/parent').extract()
yield{'URL': url, 'Title': title, 'Description':description}
Scrapy:
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import scrapy
from scrapy.linkextractor import LinkExtractor
from scrapy.spiders import Rule, CrawlSpider
from datablogger_scraper.items import DatabloggerScraperItem
class DatabloggerSpider(CrawlSpider):
# The name of the spider
name = "datablogger"
# The domains that are allowed (links to other domains are skipped)
allowed_domains = ['http://1.1.1.1:1234/']
# The URLs to start with
start_urls = ['http://1.1.1.1:1234/TestSuites']
# This spider has one rule: extract all (unique and canonicalized) links, follow them and parse them using the parse_items method
rules = [
Rule(
LinkExtractor(
canonicalize=True,
unique=True
),
follow=True,
callback="parse_items"
)
]
# Method which starts the requests by visiting all URLs specified in start_urls
def start_requests(self):
for url in self.start_urls:
yield scrapy.Request(url, callback=self.parse, dont_filter=True)
# Method for parsing items
def parse_items(self, response):
# The list of items that are found on the particular page
items = []
# Only extract canonicalized and unique links (with respect to the current page)
links = LinkExtractor(canonicalize=True, unique=True).extract_links(response)
# Now go through all the found links
item = DatabloggerScraperItem()
item['url_from'] = response.url
for link in links:
item['url_to'] = link.url
items.append(item)
# Return all the found items
return items

Scrapy Spider not following Request callback using yield

I'm new to scrapy and I cant get my spider to enter parse_votes in code bellow, even though I set it as callback. The others parse methods are working fine, I don't get any ERROR and checked the 'link' variable which has the correct info. HELP?
EDIT - Full code
class DeputadosSpider(scrapy.Spider):
name = "deputies"
allowed_domains = ["camara.leg.br"]
start_urls = ["http://www2.camara.leg.br/deputados/pesquisa"]
def parse(self, response):
sel = Selector(response)
sel_options = sel.xpath('//*[#id="deputado"]/option[position()>1]')
iteration = 1
# get deputies pages
for sel_option in sel_options:
item = DeputiesInfo()
item["war_name"] = sel_option.xpath("text()").extract()
item["link_id"] = sel_option.extract().partition('?')[-1].rpartition('"')[0]
item["page_link"] = 'http://www.camara.leg.br/internet/Deputado/dep_Detalhe.asp?id=' + item["link_id"]
item["id"] = iteration
iteration += 1
# go scrap their page
yield scrapy.Request(item["page_link"], callback=self.parse_deputy, meta={'item': item})
def parse_deputy(self, response):
item = response.meta['item']
sel = Selector(response)
info = sel.xpath('//div[#id="content"]/div/div[1]/ul/li')
# end to fill the data
item["full_name"] = info.xpath("text()").extract_first()
item["party"] = info.xpath("text()").extract()[2].partition('/')[0]
item["uf"] = info.xpath("text()").extract()[2].partition('/')[-1].rpartition('/')[0]
item["legislatures"] = info.xpath("text()").extract()[5]
item["picture"] = sel.xpath('//div[#id="content"]/div/div[1]//img[1]/#src').extract()
# save data to json file
file = open('deputies_info.json', 'a')
line = json.dumps(dict(item)) + ",\n"
file.write(line)
# colect votes info
get_years = sel.xpath('//*[#id="my-informations"]/div[3]/div/ul/li[1]/a[position()<4]')
for get_year in get_years:
vote = VotesInfo()
vote["deputy_id"] = item["id"]
vote["year"] = get_year.xpath("text()").extract_first()
link = get_year.xpath("#href").extract_first()
print(vote["year"])
print(link)
# go to voting pages
yield scrapy.Request(link, callback=self.parse_votes, meta={'vote': vote})
def parse_votes(self, response):
#vote = response.meta['vote']
print('YYYYYYYYYYYYYUHUL IM IN!!')

Your problem is allowed_domains, because the link you are trying to request in parse_deputy is for example: http://www.camara.gov.br/internet/deputado/RelVotacoes.asp?nuLegislatura=55&nuMatricula=410&dtInicio=01/01/2016&dtFim=30/12/2016
and its domain is camara.gov.br so add it to allowed_domains.
allowed_domains = ["camara.leg.br", "camara.gov.br"]
PS: I ran your code commentingallowed_domains, and parse_votes works perfectly.

I ran your spider and found why it nerver enters parse_votes.
I checked the link in yield scrapy.Request(link, callback=self.parse_votes, meta={'vote': vote}) and found out that it is not in the same domain
The link belongs to the camara.gov.br domain, which does not belong to the allowed_domains = ["camara.leg.br"]
So you need to add this domain to the allowed_domains list.
allowed_domains = ["camara.leg.br", "camara.gov.br"]

how to scrape Tripadvisor dynamically using scrapy and python

I am trying to scrape TripAdvisor's reviews, but I cannot find the Xpath to have it dynamically go through all the pages. I tried yield and callback but the thing is I cannot find the xpath for the line that goes to the next page. I am talking about This site
Here Is my code(UPDATED):
from scrapy.spiders import Spider
from scrapy.selector import Selector
from scrapy.http import Request
from scrapingtest.items import ScrapingTestingItem
class scrapingtestspider(Spider):
name = "scrapytesting"
allowed_domains = ["tripadvisor.in"]
base_uri = "tripadvisor.in"
start_urls = [
"http://www.tripadvisor.in/Hotel_Review-g297679-d300955-Reviews-Ooty_Fern_Hill_A_Sterling_Holidays_Resort-Ooty_Tamil_Nadu.html"]
output_json_dict = {}
def parse(self, response):
sel = Selector(response)
sites = sel.xpath('//a[contains(text(), "Next")]/#href').extract()
items = []
i=0
for sites in sites:
item = ScrapingTestingItem()
#item['reviews'] = sel.xpath('//p[#class="partial_entry"]/text()').extract()
item['subjects'] = sel.xpath('//span[#class="noQuotes"]/text()').extract()
item['stars'] = sel.xpath('//*[#class="rate sprite-rating_s rating_s"]/img/#alt').extract()
item['names'] = sel.xpath('//*[#class="username mo"]/span/text()').extract()
items.append(item)
i+=1
sites = sel.xpath('//a[contains(text(), "Next")]/#href').extract()
if(sites and len(sites) > 0):
yield Request(url="tripadvisor.in" + sites[i], callback=self.parse)
else:
yield items

If you want to select the URL behind Next why don't you try something like this:
next_url = response.xpath('//a[contains(text(), "Next")]/#href).extract()
And then yield a Request with this URL? With this you get always the next site to scrape and do not need the line containing the numbers.
Recently I did something similar on tripadvisor and this approach worked for me. If this won't work for you update your code with the approach you are trying to see where it can be approved.
Update
And change your Request creation block to the following:
if(sites and len(sites) > 0):
for site in sites:
yield Request(url="http://tripadvisor.in" + site, callback=self.parse)
Remove the else part and yield items at the end of the loop when the method finished with every parsing.

I think it can only work if you make a list of urls you want to scrap in a .txt file.
class scrapingtestspider(Spider):
name = "scrapytesting"
allowed_domains = ["tripadvisor.in"]
base_uri = "tripadvisor.in"
f = open("urls.txt")
start_urls = [url.strip() for url in f.readlines()]
f.close()

Scrapy Spider just crawls and does not scrape

I am making a project in which I have used scrapy to scrape items from web sites, but the problem is, the xpaths of the 1st 2 pages of that site is different from the xpaths of the other pages.
As the result my spider just scrapes the items from first two pages and just simply crawls over the other pages.
How can I make my spider also scrape the items of the pages too??
I am also including my spider here so that u can see through my spider if needed.
from scrapy.spider import BaseSpider
from scrapy.selector import HtmlXPathSelector
from project2.items import Project2Item
from scrapy.http import Request
class ProjectSpider(BaseSpider):
name = "project2spider"
allowed_domains = ["http://directory.thesun.co.uk/"]
current_page_no = 1
start_urls = [
'http://directory.thesun.co.uk/find/uk/computer-repair'
]
def get_next_url(self, fired_url):
if '/page/' in fired_url:
url, page_no = fired_url.rsplit('/page/', 1)
else:
if self.current_page_no != 1:
#end of scroll
return
self.current_page_no += 1
return "http://directory.thesun.co.uk/find/uk/computer-repair/page/%s" % self.current_page_no
# the parse procedure, and here is the codes which declares which field to scrape.
def parse(self, response):
fired_url = response.url
hxs = HtmlXPathSelector(response)
sites = hxs.select('//div[#class="abTbl "]')
for site in sites:
item = Project2Item()
item['Catogory'] = site.select('span[#class="icListBusType"]/text()').extract()
item['Bussiness_name'] = site.select('a/#title').extract()
item['Description'] = site.select('span[last()]/text()').extract()
item['Number'] = site.select('span[#class="searchInfoLabel"]/span/#id').extract()
item['Web_url'] = site.select('span[#class="searchInfoLabel"]/a/#href').extract()
item['adress_name'] = site.select('span[#class="searchInfoLabel"]/span/text()').extract()
item['Photo_name'] = site.select('img/#alt').extract()
item['Photo_path'] = site.select('img/#src').extract()
#items.append(item)
yield item
next_url = self.get_next_url(fired_url)
if next_url:
yield Request(next_url, self.parse, dont_filter=True)
for other pages I need to use this: sites = hxs.select('//div[#class="icListItem"]')
How can I include this in my spider so that it can scrape items form other pages too..
At present its just scraping 1st two pages and simply crawls over other pages.

What did you try so far?
One solution would be using an index-like parameter passed as a meta data when calling for the next page. Something like:
def parse(self, response):
hxs = HtmlXPathSelector(response)
2nd_xpath = False
try:
if response.meta['index'] > 1:
2nd_xpath = True
index = response.meta['index']
except KeyError:
index = 0
sites = (hxs.select('//div[#class="icListItem"]') if 2nd_xpath
else hxs.select('//div[#class="abTbl "]'))
...
request = Request(next_url, self.parse, dont_filter=True)
request.meta['index'] = index + 1
yield request
That code sure as hell can be improved but you get the idea.