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Scrapy response uniform blank rows making it impossible to format response output

I want to remove the [ ] brackets scrapy adds to all it's output, to do this you simply add [0] at the end of an xpath statement as follows:
'a[#class="question-hyperlink"]/text()').extract()[0]
this solves the [ ] problem in some cases but in other cases scrapy returns every second row of output as blank and as such the moment it gets to the second row when using [0] i'm given the error:
Index error: list index out of range
How can I prevent scrapy from creating blank rows ? It seems like this is a common problem, but everyone faces this problem when exporting to CSV while for me it's with the scrapy response before exporting as CSV.
Items.py:
import scrapy
from scrapy.item import Item, Field
class QuestionItem(Item):
title = Field()
url = Field()
class PopularityItem(Item):
votes = Field()
answers = Field()
views = Field()
class ModifiedItem(Item):
lastModified = Field()
modName = Field()
The spider that doesn't output every second row as blank and thus works with [0]:
from scrapy import Spider
from scrapy.selector import Selector
from stack.items import QuestionItem
class QuestionSpider(Spider):
name = "questions"
allowed_domains = ["stackoverflow.com"]
start_urls = [
"http://stackoverflow.com/questions?pagesize=50&sort=newest",
]
def parse(self, response):
questions = Selector(response).xpath('//div[#class="summary"]/h3')
for question in questions:
item = QuestionItem()
item['title'] = question.xpath(
'a[#class="question-hyperlink"]/text()').extract()[0]
item['url'] = question.xpath(
'a[#class="question-hyperlink"]/#href').extract()[0]
yield item
The spider that gives every second row of output as blank:
from scrapy import Spider
from scrapy.selector import Selector
from stack.items import PopularityItem
class PopularitySpider(Spider):
name = "popularity"
allowed_domains = ["stackoverflow.com"]
start_urls = [
"https://stackoverflow.com/",
]
def parse(self, response):
popularity = response.xpath('//div[contains(#class, "question-summary narrow")]/div')
for poppart in popularity:
item = PopularityItem()
item['votes'] = poppart.xpath(
'div[contains(#class, "votes")]//span/text()').extract()#[0]
item['answers'] = poppart.xpath(
'div[contains(#class, "answered")]//span/text()').extract()#[0]
item['views'] = poppart.xpath(
'div[contains(#class, "views")]//span/text()').extract()#[0]
yield item
Pipelines.py
import pymongo
import logging
class StackPipeline(object):
def process_item(self, item, spider):
return item
from scrapy.conf import settings
from scrapy.exceptions import DropItem
from scrapy import log
class MongoDBPipeline(object):
def __init__(self):
connection = pymongo.MongoClient(settings['MONGODB_SERVER'], settings['MONGODB_PORT'])
self.db = connection[settings['MONGODB_DB']]
def process_item(self, item, spider):
collection = self.db[type(item).__name__.lower()]
logging.info(collection.insert(dict(item)))
return item

The easiest way to handle an error like this is to catch it and deal with it then (in this case, by just moving on past the blank lines).
class PopularitySpider(Spider):
name = "popularity"
allowed_domains = ["stackoverflow.com"]
start_urls = ["https://stackoverflow.com/"]
def parse(self, response):
popularity = response.xpath('//div[contains(#class, "question-summary narrow")]/div')
for poppart in popularity:
try:
item = PopularityItem()
item['votes'] = poppart.xpath('div[contains(#class, "votes")]//span/text()').extract()[0]
item['answers'] = poppart.xpath('div[contains(#class, "answered")]//span/text()').extract()[0]
item['views'] = poppart.xpath('div[contains(#class, "views")]//span/text()').extract()[0]
except IndexError:
continue
yield item

DropItem if parsed url contains key words (pipeline)

I am trying to build a spider for a school project where I am scraping recipes from allrecipes.com. Everything is working really well, however I seem to be unable to remove duplicate recipes where one url contains the actual recipe, and the other contains the same url with "video=true" appended.
Here is my attempt to dealing with this in pipelines.py:
from scrapy.exceptions import DropItem
from scrapy import log
class DuplicatesPipeline(object):
# minCal = 50
def __init__(self):
self.urls_seen = set()
def process_vids(self, item, spider):
video = "video=true"
url = str(item.get('url'))
if video in url:
raise DropItem("Contains video")
else:
return item
def process_item(self, item, spider):
unique_id = item.get('url')
if unique_id in self.urls_seen:
raise DropItem("Duplicate Item found (%s)" % unique_id)
else:
self.urls_seen.add('url')
return item
settings.py:
# Scrapy settings for dirbot project
BOT_NAME = 'dirbot'
SPIDER_MODULES = ['dirbot.spiders']
NEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'dirbot.spiders'
DEFAULT_ITEM_CLASS = 'dirbot.items.Website'
ITEM_PIPELINES = {'dirbot.pipelines.DuplicatesPipeline': 300,}
items.py:
from scrapy.item import Item, Field
class Website(Item):
name = Field()
url = Field()
description = Field()
kcal = Field()
carbs = Field()
fat = Field()
protein = Field()
main = Field()
sugar = Field()
fibre = Field()
author = Field()
rating = Field()
img = Field()
dnot.py:
from scrapy.spider import Spider
from scrapy.contrib.linkextractors.sgml import SgmlLinkExtractor
from scrapy.selector import Selector
from scrapy.http import Request
from scrapy.http.request import Request
from dirbot.items import Website
from scrapy.contrib.spiders import CrawlSpider,Rule
import urlparse
import scrapy
page = "http://allrecipes.com/recipes/main.aspx?Page=%d#recipes"
class DmozSpider(Spider):
name = "dnot"
allowed_domains = ["allrecipes.com"]
start_urls = [page % 1]
rules = [Rule(SgmlLinkExtractor(allow=('allrecipes.com'), restrict_xpaths = '//a[contains(.,"NEXT")]'),
callback="parse", follow= True),
]
def __init__(self):
self.page_number = 1
def parse(self, response):
print "-------------------------------------------------"
print self.page_number
print "-------------------------------------------------"
sel = Selector(response)
sites = response.xpath('//div[#id="divGridItemWrapper"]')
items = []
for site in sites:
item = Website()
recipe = response.xpath('//a[contains(#href, "/Recipe/")]/#href').extract()
url = "http://www.allrecipes.com"
for nth in recipe:
go = urlparse.urljoin(url, str(nth))
items.append(item)
for link in go:
yield Request(go, self.recipes)
if self.page_number <= 3:
self.page_number += 1
yield Request(page % self.page_number)
else:
pass
def recipes(self,response):
item = Website()
sel = Selector(response)
recipe = response.xpath('//div[#id="content-wrapper"]')
items = []
print "second page - %s" % response.url
for i in recipe:
item['url'] = response.url
item['description'] = i.xpath('//span[#itemprop="description"]/text()').extract()
item['name'] = i.xpath('//h1[#itemprop="name"]/text()').extract()
item['kcal'] = i.xpath('//ul/li[contains(.,"kcal")]/span/text()').extract()
item['carbs'] = i.xpath('//ul/li[contains(.,"Carbohydrates")]/following-sibling::li[1]//span[#id="lblNutrientValue"]/text()').extract()
item['fat'] = i.xpath('//ul/li[contains(.,"Fat")]/following-sibling::li[1]//span[#id="lblNutrientValue"]/text()').extract()
item['protein'] = i.xpath('//ul/li[contains(.,"Protein")]/following-sibling::li[1]//span[#id="lblNutrientValue"]/text()').extract()
item['main'] = "allrecipes.com"
item['sugar'] = i.xpath('//li/span[#itemprop="sugarContent"]/text()').extract()
item['fibre'] = i.xpath('//li/span[#itemprop="proteinContent"]/text()').extract()
item['author'] = i.xpath('//span[#id="lblUser0"]/text()').extract()
item['rating'] = i.xpath('//div[#class="rating-stars-img"][1]/meta[1][#itemprop="ratingValue"]/#content').extract()
item['img'] = i.xpath('//img[#id="imgPhoto"]/#src').extract()
items.append(item)
yield item
I am a little new with Python, and I'm not sure if I need to convert the item['url'] into a string or not; however I have tried with the "str" and without. I have also tried a few other methods that others have used for doing something similar, but nothing has worked for me so far.
Hoping someone can point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance!
Example:
item['url'] = http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Delicious-Ham-and-Potato-Soup/Detail.aspx?evt19=1&referringHubId=1
item['url'] = http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Delicious-Ham-and-Potato-Soup/Detail.aspx?evt19=1&referringHubId=1&video=true

You need to create a class that implements the process_item method on the pipelines.py file, something like:
from urllib import urlencode
from urlparse import urlparse, urlunparse, parse_qs
class DuplicatesPipeline(object):
def __init__(self):
self.ids_seen = set()
def process_item(self, item, spider):
url = item['url']
u = urlparse(url)
query = parse_qs(u.query)
query.pop('video', None)
u = u._replace(query=urlencode(query, True))
unique_id = urlunparse(u)
if unique_id and unique_id in self.ids_seen:
raise DropItem("Duplicate Item found (%s)" % unique_id)
else:
self.ids_seen.add(unique_id)
return item
Then you need to add that class, to settings.py
ITEM_PIPELINES = {
'yourproject.pipelines.DuplicatesPipeline': 300,
}
Also, your process_vids method isn't being used.
let me know if it helps you.

Scrapy TypeError: Request url must be str or unicode [duplicate]

I am new to python programming and using scrapy. I have setup my crawler and so far it was working until I got to the point where I wanted to figure out how to download images. The error I am getting is cannot import name NsiscrapePipeline. I dont know what I am doing wrong and I dont understand some of the documentation as I am new. Please help
Items File
from scrapy.item import Item, Field
class NsiscrapeItem(Item):
# define the fields for your item here like:
# name = Field()
location = Field()
stock_number = Field()
year = Field()
manufacturer = Field()
model = Field()
length = Field()
price = Field()
status = Field()
url = Field()
pass
Spider
from scrapy.spider import BaseSpider
from scrapy.selector import HtmlXPathSelector
from NSIscrape.items import NsiscrapeItem
from scrapy.http import Request
from scrapy.contrib.pipeline.images import NsiscrapePipeline
import Image
class NsiscrapeSpider(BaseSpider):
name = "Nsiscrape"
allowed_domain = ["yachtauctions.com"]
start_urls = [
"http://www.yachtauctions.com/inventory/"
]
def parse(self, response):
hxs = HtmlXPathSelector(response)
sites = hxs.select('//tr')
items = []
for site in sites:
item = NsiscrapeItem()
item['location'] = site.select('td[2]/text()').extract()
item['stock_number'] = site.select('td[3]/a/text()').extract()
item['year'] = site.select('td[4]/text()').extract()
item['manufacturer'] = site.select('td[5]/text()').extract()
item['model'] = site.select('td[6]/text()').extract()
item['length'] = site.select('td[7]/text()').extract()
item['price'] = site.select('td[8]/text()').extract()
item['status'] = site.select('td[10]/img/#src').extract()
item['url'] = site.select('td[1]/a/#href').extract()
item['image_urls'] = site.select('td/a[3]/img/#data-original').extract()
item['images'] = item['image_urls']
yield Request(item['url'][0], meta={'item':item}, callback=self.product_detail_page)
def product_detail_page(self, response):
hxs = HtmlXPathSelector(response)
item = response.request.meta['item']
#add all images url in the item['image_urls']
yield item
settings
ITEM_PIPELINES = ['scrapy.contrib.pipeline.image.NsiscrapePipeline']
IMAGES_STORE = 'c:\Python27\NSIscrape\IMG'
IMAGES_EXPIRES = 90
Pipelines This is where I am unsure if I am missing something
from scrapy.item import Item
class NsiscrapePipeline(Item):
image_urls = Field()
images = Field()
def process_item(self, item, spider):
return item
error
File "NSIscrape\spiders\NSI_Spider.py", line 9, in <module>
from scrapy.contrib.pipeline.images import NsiscrapePipeline
ImportError: cannot import name NsiscrapePipeline

You tried to pass list, but this function accepts only string. Pass only one element from list (for example list[0]).

Heres my final code thats working. There was two issues
1: I was missing the second backslash that needede to be in the request --> //td[1]/a[3]/img/#data-original
2: I had to check the full URL in which the image would be displayed and join them together which was the main URL or the allowed URL and the image URL.
def parse(self, response):
hxs = HtmlXPathSelector(response)
images = hxs.select('//tr')
url = []
for image in images:
urls = NsiscrapeItem()
urls['image_urls'] = ["http://www.yachtauctions.com" + x for x in image.select('//td[1]/a[3]/img/#data-original').extract()]
url.append(urls)
return url

That isn't part of the library :) - at least by looking at their current master branch
I think you're looking for ImagesPipeline
Their example may help! example
p.s. I don't think you custom name the class - at least not by how scapy is designed; i'm reasonably sure you use their class ;)

Scrapy Crawls only 1st page

heya I am making a Project using scrapy in which I need to scrap the business details from a business directory http://directory.thesun.co.uk/find/uk/computer-repair
the problem I am facing is: when I am trying to crawl the page my crawler fetches the details of only 1st page whereas I need to fetch the details of the rest 9 pages also; that is all 10 pages..
i am showing below my Spider code and items.py and settings .py
please see my code and help me to solve it
spider code::
from scrapy.spider import BaseSpider
from scrapy.selector import HtmlXPathSelector
from project2.items import Project2Item
class ProjectSpider(BaseSpider):
name = "project2spider"
allowed_domains = ["http://directory.thesun.co.uk/"]
start_urls = [
"http://directory.thesun.co.uk/find/uk/computer-repair"
]
def parse(self, response):
hxs = HtmlXPathSelector(response)
sites = hxs.select('//div[#class="abTbl "]')
items = []
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)
return items
My items.py code is as follows::
from scrapy.item import Item, Field
class Project2Item(Item):
Catogory = Field()
Bussiness_name = Field()
Description = Field()
Number = Field()
Web_url = Field()
adress_name = Field()
Photo_name = Field()
Photo_path = Field()
my settings.py is:::
BOT_NAME = 'project2'
SPIDER_MODULES = ['project2.spiders']
NEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'project2.spiders'
please help
me to extract details from other pages too...

Fetching description .select('span/text()') you are selecting text from ALL spans in //div[#class="abTbl "].
To extract last span you can use 'span[last()]/text()' xpath
btw this http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/xpath_syntax.asp should help you with XPathes

scrapy: newbie attempting to debug code

Total newbie, trying to get scrapy to read a list of urls from csv and return the items in a csv.
Need some help to figure out where I'm going wrong here:
Spider code:
from scrapy.spider import BaseSpider
from scrapy.selector import HtmlXPathSelector
import random
class incyspider(BaseSpider):
name = "incyspider"
def __init__(self):
super(incyspider, self).__init__()
domain_name = "incyspider.co.uk"
f = open("urls.csv")
start_urls = [url.strip() for url in f.readlines()]
f.close
def parse(self, response):
hxs = HtmlXPathSelector(response)
sites = hxs.select('//div[#class="Product"]')
items = []
for site in sites:
item['title'] = hxs.select('//div[#class="Name"]/node()').extract()
item['hlink'] = hxs.select('//div[#class="Price"]/node()').extract()
item['price'] = hxs.select('//div[#class="Codes"]/node()').extract()
items.append(item)
return items
SPIDER = incyspider()
Here's the items.py code:
from scrapy.item import Item, Field
class incyspider(Item):
# define the fields for your item here like:
# name = Field()
title = Field()
hlink = Field()
price = Field()
pass
To run, I'm using
scrapy crawl incyspider -o items.csv -t csv
I would seriously appreciate any pointers.

I'm not exactly sure but after a quick look at your code I would say that at least you need to replace this line
sites = hxs.select('//div[#class="Product"]')
by this line
sites = hxs.select('//div[#class="Product"]').extract()

As a first punt at answering this, your spider code is missing an import for your incyspider item class. Also you're not creating an instance of any kind of item to store the title/hlink/price info, so the items.append(item) line might complain.
Since your spider is also called incyspider, you should rename the item to be something like incyspiderItem and then add the following line to your spider code
from scrapy.spider import BaseSpider
from scrapy.selector import HtmlXPathSelector
import random
from incyspider.items import incyspiderItem
class incyspider(BaseSpider):
name = "incyspider"
def __init__(self):
super(incyspider, self).__init__()
domain_name = "incyspider.co.uk"
f = open("urls.csv")
start_urls = [url.strip() for url in f.readlines()]
f.close
def parse(self, response):
hxs = HtmlXPathSelector(response)
sites = hxs.select('//div[#class="Product"]')
items = []
for site in sites:
item = incyspiderItem()
item['title'] = hxs.select('//div[#class="Name"]/node()').extract()
item['hlink'] = hxs.select('//div[#class="Price"]/node()').extract()
item['price'] = hxs.select('//div[#class="Codes"]/node()').extract()
items.append(item)
return items
If I'm wrong, then please edit the question to explain how you know there is a problem with the code eg: is the expected output different to the actual output? If so, how?