From 2fb5e62c39c87b6baac4f671a5e323857db31e70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pablo Hoffman Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 02:37:22 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] doc: update overview page to point to the genspider command. refs #107 --- docs/intro/overview.rst | 6 ++++++ docs/intro/tutorial.rst | 7 +++++-- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/intro/overview.rst b/docs/intro/overview.rst index 5828f0530..d933a088c 100644 --- a/docs/intro/overview.rst +++ b/docs/intro/overview.rst @@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ directly) are actually lists. This is because the :ref:`selectors perform some additional parsing/cleansing to the values. That's what :ref:`Item Loaders ` are for. +.. _topics-whatelse: + What else? ========== @@ -226,6 +228,10 @@ scraping easy and efficient, such as: * Robust encoding support and auto-detection, for dealing with foreign, non-standard and broken encoding declarations. +* Support for creating spiders based on pre-defined templates, to speed up + spider creation and make their code more consistent on large projects. See + :command:`genspider` command for more details. + * Extensible :ref:`stats collection ` for multiple spider metrics, useful for monitoring the performance of your spiders and detecting when they get broken diff --git a/docs/intro/tutorial.rst b/docs/intro/tutorial.rst index 468252c90..b4e9f066a 100644 --- a/docs/intro/tutorial.rst +++ b/docs/intro/tutorial.rst @@ -436,8 +436,11 @@ Next steps ========== This tutorial covers only the basics of Scrapy, but there's a lot of other -features not mentioned here. We recommend you continue by playing with an -example project (see :ref:`intro-examples`), and then continue with the section +features not mentioned here. Check the :ref:`topics-whatelse` section in +:ref:`intro-overview` chapter for a quick overview of the most important ones. + +Then, we recommend you continue by playing with an example project (see +:ref:`intro-examples`), and then continue with the section :ref:`section-basics`. .. _JSON: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON