From 14ceca98bfbd1eb35cffdf5dafc9066d98c71c9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pablo Hoffman Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:10:49 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] added FormRequest example --HG-- extra : convert_revision : svn%3Ab85faa78-f9eb-468e-a121-7cced6da292c%40782 --- scrapy/trunk/docs/ref/request-response.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/docs/ref/request-response.rst b/scrapy/trunk/docs/ref/request-response.rst index a94169ec3..64b0e5d12 100644 --- a/scrapy/trunk/docs/ref/request-response.rst +++ b/scrapy/trunk/docs/ref/request-response.rst @@ -137,6 +137,13 @@ The FormRequest class adds a new parameter to the constructor: containing HTML Form data) which will be urlencoded and assigned to the body of the request. +For example, if you want to simulate a HTTP Form POST in your spider which +sends a coupe of of key-values you would return a :class:`FormRequest` object +(from your spider) like this:: + + return [FormRequest(url="http://www.example.com/post/action", + formdata={'name': 'John Doe', age: '27'})] + Response objects ================