Scrapy XPath all the links on the page
You should have defined a callback for a rule. Here's an example for getting all links from twitter.com
main page (follow=False
):
from scrapy.contrib.linkextractors.sgml import SgmlLinkExtractor
from scrapy.contrib.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule
from scrapy.item import Item, Field
class MyItem(Item):
url= Field()
class MySpider(CrawlSpider):
name = 'twitter.com'
allowed_domains = ['twitter.com']
start_urls = ['http://www.twitter.com']
rules = (Rule(SgmlLinkExtractor(), callback='parse_url', follow=False), )
def parse_url(self, response):
item = MyItem()
item['url'] = response.url
return item
Then, in the output file, I see:
http://status.twitter.com/
https://twitter.com/
http://support.twitter.com/forums/26810/entries/78525
http://support.twitter.com/articles/14226-how-to-find-your-twitter-short-code-or-long-code
...
Hope that helps.
B.Mr.W.
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Updated on June 04, 2022Comments
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B.Mr.W. almost 2 years
I am trying to collect all the URLs under a domain using Scrapy. I was trying to use the CrawlSpider to start from the homepage and crawl their web. For each page, I want to use Xpath to extract all the hrefs. And store the data in a format like key-value pair.
Key: the current Url Value: all the links on this page.
class MySpider(CrawlSpider): name = 'abc.com' allowed_domains = ['abc.com'] start_urls = ['http://www.abc.com'] rules = (Rule(SgmlLinkExtractor()), ) def parse_item(self, response): hxs = HtmlXPathSelector(response) item = AbcItem() item['key'] = response.url item['value'] = hxs.select('//a/@href').extract() return item
I define my AbcItem() looks like below:
from scrapy.item import Item, Field
class AbcItem(Item): # key: url # value: list of links existing in the key url key = Field() value = Field() pass
And when I run my code like this:
nohup scrapy crawl abc.com -o output -t csv &
The robot seems like began to crawl and I can see the nohup.out file being populated by all the configurations log but there is no information from my output file.. which is what I am trying to collect, can anyone help me with this? what might be wrong with my robot?
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B.Mr.W. over 10 yearsthanks a lot for your answer, callback makes it work! you did follow=False in your code so it only scrape the twitter.com right? No crawling in this case..? I am pretty sure we have a similar RULE right now with the follow flag set to False, but seems like my spider is still crawling... doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spiders.html#crawling-rules
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alecxe over 10 yearsSure, it's scraping just index page
twitter.com
, but if I setfollow=True
it will follow the links and scrape links there too. -
The Bumpaster almost 8 yearsAnd how can I write a filter to search for any html element that contains id/class/data-type/value of name or what so ever =
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Roman about 7 yearsFor python3, use
from scrapy.linkextractors import LinkExtractor
instead ofSgmlLinkExtractor
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PlsWork almost 5 yearsAlso, try
from scrapy.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule
instead offrom scrapy.contrib.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule
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PlsWork almost 5 yearsLooks like twitter doesn't want to be crawled:
2019-05-12 15:18:34 [scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.robotstxt] DEBUG: Forbidden by robots.txt: <GET http://www.twitter.com>
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x89 almost 3 yearsstackoverflow.com/questions/68193300/… Could you take a look here? @alecxe