scrapy run spider code example

Example 1: genspider scrapy

scrapy genspider mydomain mydomain.com

Example 2: scrapy spider shell from spider

from scrapy.shell import inspect_response

def parse_details(self, response, item=None):
    if item:
        # populate more `item` fields
        return item
    else:
        inspect_response(response, self)

Example 3: scrapy create project

scrapy startproject projectname

Example 4: simple scrapy spider file

import scrapy


class QuotesSpider(scrapy.Spider):
    name = "quotes"
    start_urls = [
        'http://quotes.toscrape.com/page/1/',
    ]

    def parse(self, response):
        for quote in response.css('div.quote'):
            yield {
                'text': quote.css('span.text::text').get(),
                'author': quote.css('small.author::text').get(),
                'tags': quote.css('div.tags a.tag::text').getall(),
            }

        next_page = response.css('li.next a::attr(href)').get()
        if next_page is not None:
            next_page = response.urljoin(next_page)
            yield scrapy.Request(next_page, callback=self.parse)