diff --git a/.bandit.yml b/.bandit.yml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..243379b0b --- /dev/null +++ b/.bandit.yml @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +skips: +- B101 +- B105 +- B301 +- B303 +- B306 +- B307 +- B311 +- B320 +- B321 +- B402 # https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/issues/4180 +- B403 +- B404 +- B406 +- B410 +- B503 +- B603 +- B605 diff --git a/.bumpversion.cfg b/.bumpversion.cfg index 6e7be142e..d9e4a2831 100644 --- a/.bumpversion.cfg +++ b/.bumpversion.cfg @@ -1,8 +1,7 @@ [bumpversion] -current_version = 1.5.0 +current_version = 2.5.0 commit = True tag = True tag_name = {new_version} [bumpversion:file:scrapy/VERSION] - diff --git a/.coveragerc b/.coveragerc index 3105409ba..02acbff8e 100644 --- a/.coveragerc +++ b/.coveragerc @@ -3,17 +3,3 @@ branch = true include = scrapy/* omit = tests/* - scrapy/xlib/* - scrapy/conf.py - scrapy/stats.py - scrapy/project.py - scrapy/utils/decorator.py - scrapy/statscol.py - scrapy/squeue.py - scrapy/log.py - scrapy/dupefilter.py - scrapy/command.py - scrapy/linkextractor.py - scrapy/spider.py - scrapy/contrib/* - scrapy/contrib_exp/* diff --git a/.flake8 b/.flake8 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1c503fb0b --- /dev/null +++ b/.flake8 @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +[flake8] + +max-line-length = 119 +ignore = W503 + +exclude = +# Exclude files that are meant to provide top-level imports +# E402: Module level import not at top of file +# F401: Module imported but unused + scrapy/__init__.py E402 + scrapy/core/downloader/handlers/http.py F401 + scrapy/http/__init__.py F401 + scrapy/linkextractors/__init__.py E402 F401 + scrapy/selector/__init__.py F401 + scrapy/spiders/__init__.py E402 F401 + + # Issues pending a review: + scrapy/utils/url.py F403 F405 + tests/test_loader.py E741 diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 000000000..dfbdf4208 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +tests/sample_data/** binary diff --git a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.md b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8ca10109b --- /dev/null +++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.md @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +--- +name: Bug report +about: Report a problem to help us improve +--- + + + +### Description + +[Description of the issue] + +### Steps to Reproduce + +1. [First Step] +2. [Second Step] +3. [and so on...] + +**Expected behavior:** [What you expect to happen] + +**Actual behavior:** [What actually happens] + +**Reproduces how often:** [What percentage of the time does it reproduce?] + +### Versions + +Please paste here the output of executing `scrapy version --verbose` in the command line. + +### Additional context + +Any additional information, configuration, data or output from commands that might be necessary to reproduce or understand the issue. Please try not to include screenshots of code or the command line, paste the contents as text instead. You can use [GitHub Flavored Markdown](https://help.github.com/en/articles/creating-and-highlighting-code-blocks) to make the text look better. diff --git a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.md b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e05273fe2 --- /dev/null +++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +--- +name: Feature request +about: Suggest an idea for an enhancement or new feature +--- + + + +## Summary + +One paragraph explanation of the feature. + +## Motivation + +Why are we doing this? What use cases does it support? What is the expected outcome? + +## Describe alternatives you've considered + +A clear and concise description of the alternative solutions you've considered. Be sure to explain why Scrapy's existing customizability isn't suitable for this feature. + +## Additional context + +Any additional information about the feature request here. diff --git a/.github/workflows/checks.yml b/.github/workflows/checks.yml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..80df9469d --- /dev/null +++ b/.github/workflows/checks.yml @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +name: Checks +on: [push, pull_request] + +jobs: + checks: + runs-on: ubuntu-18.04 + strategy: + fail-fast: false + matrix: + include: + - python-version: "3.10" + env: + TOXENV: security + - python-version: "3.10" + env: + TOXENV: flake8 + # Pylint requires installing reppy, which does not support Python 3.9 + # https://github.com/seomoz/reppy/issues/122 + - python-version: 3.8 + env: + TOXENV: pylint + TOX_PIP_VERSION: 20.3.3 + - python-version: 3.6 + env: + TOXENV: typing + - python-version: "3.10" # Keep in sync with .readthedocs.yml + env: + TOXENV: docs + + steps: + - uses: actions/checkout@v2 + + - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }} + uses: actions/setup-python@v2 + with: + python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }} + + - name: Run check + env: ${{ matrix.env }} + run: | + if [[ ! -z "$TOX_PIP_VERSION" ]]; then + pip install tox-pip-version + fi + pip install -U tox + tox diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish.yml b/.github/workflows/publish.yml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..44b682830 --- /dev/null +++ b/.github/workflows/publish.yml @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +name: Publish +on: [push] + +jobs: + publish: + runs-on: ubuntu-18.04 + if: startsWith(github.event.ref, 'refs/tags/') + + steps: + - uses: actions/checkout@v2 + + - name: Set up Python + uses: actions/setup-python@v2 + with: + python-version: "3.10" + + - name: Check Tag + id: check-release-tag + run: | + if [[ ${{ github.event.ref }} =~ ^refs/tags/[0-9]+[.][0-9]+[.][0-9]+(rc[0-9]+|[.]dev[0-9]+)?$ ]]; then + echo ::set-output name=release_tag::true + fi + + - name: Publish to PyPI + if: steps.check-release-tag.outputs.release_tag == 'true' + run: | + pip install --upgrade setuptools wheel twine + python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel + export TWINE_USERNAME=__token__ + export TWINE_PASSWORD=${{ secrets.PYPI_TOKEN }} + twine upload dist/* diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests-macos.yml b/.github/workflows/tests-macos.yml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3aaf688c7 --- /dev/null +++ b/.github/workflows/tests-macos.yml @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +name: macOS +on: [push, pull_request] + +jobs: + tests: + runs-on: macos-10.15 + strategy: + fail-fast: false + matrix: + python-version: ["3.6", "3.7", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10"] + + steps: + - uses: actions/checkout@v2 + + - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }} + uses: actions/setup-python@v2 + with: + python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }} + + - name: Run tests + run: | + pip install -U tox + tox -e py + + - name: Upload coverage report + run: bash <(curl -s https://codecov.io/bash) diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests-ubuntu.yml b/.github/workflows/tests-ubuntu.yml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5ea50e644 --- /dev/null +++ b/.github/workflows/tests-ubuntu.yml @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +name: Ubuntu +on: [push, pull_request] + +jobs: + tests: + runs-on: ubuntu-18.04 + strategy: + fail-fast: false + matrix: + include: + - python-version: 3.7 + env: + TOXENV: py + - python-version: 3.8 + env: + TOXENV: py + - python-version: 3.9 + env: + TOXENV: py + - python-version: "3.10" + env: + TOXENV: py + - python-version: "3.10" + env: + TOXENV: asyncio + - python-version: pypy3 + env: + TOXENV: pypy3 + PYPY_VERSION: 3.6-v7.3.3 + + # pinned deps + - python-version: 3.6.12 + env: + TOXENV: pinned + - python-version: 3.6.12 + env: + TOXENV: asyncio-pinned + - python-version: pypy3 + env: + TOXENV: pypy3-pinned + PYPY_VERSION: 3.6-v7.2.0 + + # extras + # extra-deps includes reppy, which does not support Python 3.9 + # https://github.com/seomoz/reppy/issues/122 + - python-version: 3.8 + env: + TOXENV: extra-deps + TOX_PIP_VERSION: 20.3.3 + + steps: + - uses: actions/checkout@v2 + + - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }} + uses: actions/setup-python@v2 + with: + python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }} + + - name: Install system libraries + if: matrix.python-version == 'pypy3' || contains(matrix.env.TOXENV, 'pinned') || matrix.python-version == '3.10.0-beta.4' + run: | + sudo apt-get update + # libxml2 2.9.12 from ondrej/php PPA breaks lxml so we pin it to the bionic-updates repo version + sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev/bionic-updates libxslt-dev + + - name: Run tests + env: ${{ matrix.env }} + run: | + if [[ ! -z "$PYPY_VERSION" ]]; then + export PYPY_VERSION="pypy$PYPY_VERSION-linux64" + wget "https://downloads.python.org/pypy/${PYPY_VERSION}.tar.bz2" + tar -jxf ${PYPY_VERSION}.tar.bz2 + $PYPY_VERSION/bin/pypy3 -m venv "$HOME/virtualenvs/$PYPY_VERSION" + source "$HOME/virtualenvs/$PYPY_VERSION/bin/activate" + fi + if [[ ! -z "$TOX_PIP_VERSION" ]]; then + pip install tox-pip-version + fi + pip install -U tox + tox + + - name: Upload coverage report + run: bash <(curl -s https://codecov.io/bash) diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests-windows.yml b/.github/workflows/tests-windows.yml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ab7385118 --- /dev/null +++ b/.github/workflows/tests-windows.yml @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +name: Windows +on: [push, pull_request] + +jobs: + tests: + runs-on: windows-latest + strategy: + fail-fast: false + matrix: + include: + - python-version: 3.6 + env: + TOXENV: windows-pinned + - python-version: 3.7 + env: + TOXENV: py + - python-version: 3.8 + env: + TOXENV: py + - python-version: 3.9 + env: + TOXENV: py + - python-version: "3.10" + env: + TOXENV: py + - python-version: "3.10" + env: + TOXENV: asyncio + + steps: + - uses: actions/checkout@v2 + + - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }} + uses: actions/setup-python@v2 + with: + python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }} + + - name: Run tests + env: ${{ matrix.env }} + run: | + pip install -U tox + tox diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index 406146e5f..d77d24624 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -12,8 +12,14 @@ dist .idea htmlcov/ .coverage +.pytest_cache/ .coverage.* +coverage.* +test-output.* .cache/ +.mypy_cache/ +/tests/keys/localhost.crt +/tests/keys/localhost.key # Windows Thumbs.db diff --git a/.readthedocs.yml b/.readthedocs.yml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..390be3749 --- /dev/null +++ b/.readthedocs.yml @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +version: 2 +formats: all +sphinx: + configuration: docs/conf.py + fail_on_warning: true + +build: + os: ubuntu-20.04 + tools: + # For available versions, see: + # https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/config-file/v2.html#build-tools-python + python: "3.10" # Keep in sync with .github/workflows/checks.yml + +python: + install: + - requirements: docs/requirements.txt + - path: . diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml deleted file mode 100644 index 6635f5d3b..000000000 --- a/.travis.yml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,65 +0,0 @@ -language: python -sudo: false -branches: - only: - - master - - /^\d\.\d+$/ - - /^\d\.\d+\.\d+(rc\d+|\.dev\d+)?$/ -matrix: - include: - - python: 2.7 - env: TOXENV=py27 - - python: 2.7 - env: TOXENV=jessie - - python: 2.7 - env: TOXENV=pypy - - python: 2.7 - env: TOXENV=pypy3 - - python: 3.4 - env: TOXENV=py34 - - python: 3.5 - env: TOXENV=py35 - - python: 3.6 - env: TOXENV=py36 - - python: 3.6 - env: TOXENV=docs -install: - - | - if [ "$TOXENV" = "pypy" ]; then - export PYPY_VERSION="pypy-5.9-linux_x86_64-portable" - wget "https://bitbucket.org/squeaky/portable-pypy/downloads/${PYPY_VERSION}.tar.bz2" - tar -jxf ${PYPY_VERSION}.tar.bz2 - virtualenv --python="$PYPY_VERSION/bin/pypy" "$HOME/virtualenvs/$PYPY_VERSION" - source "$HOME/virtualenvs/$PYPY_VERSION/bin/activate" - fi - if [ "$TOXENV" = "pypy3" ]; then - export PYPY_VERSION="pypy3.5-5.9-beta-linux_x86_64-portable" - wget "https://bitbucket.org/squeaky/portable-pypy/downloads/${PYPY_VERSION}.tar.bz2" - tar -jxf ${PYPY_VERSION}.tar.bz2 - virtualenv --python="$PYPY_VERSION/bin/pypy3" "$HOME/virtualenvs/$PYPY_VERSION" - source "$HOME/virtualenvs/$PYPY_VERSION/bin/activate" - fi - - pip install -U tox twine wheel codecov - -script: tox -after_success: - - codecov -notifications: - irc: - use_notice: true - skip_join: true - channels: - - irc.freenode.org#scrapy -cache: - directories: - - $HOME/.cache/pip -deploy: - provider: pypi - distributions: "sdist bdist_wheel" - user: scrapy - password: - secure: JaAKcy1AXWXDK3LXdjOtKyaVPCSFoCGCnW15g4f65E/8Fsi9ZzDfmBa4Equs3IQb/vs/if2SVrzJSr7arN7r9Z38Iv1mUXHkFAyA3Ym8mThfABBzzcUWEQhIHrCX0Tdlx9wQkkhs+PZhorlmRS4gg5s6DzPaeA2g8SCgmlRmFfA= - on: - tags: true - repo: scrapy/scrapy - condition: "$TOXENV == py27 && $TRAVIS_TAG =~ ^[0-9]+[.][0-9]+[.][0-9]+(rc[0-9]+|[.]dev[0-9]+)?$" diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS index bcaa1ecd3..9706adf42 100644 --- a/AUTHORS +++ b/AUTHORS @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ Scrapy was brought to life by Shane Evans while hacking a scraping framework prototype for Mydeco (mydeco.com). It soon became maintained, extended and improved by Insophia (insophia.com), with the initial sponsorship of Mydeco to -bootstrap the project. In mid-2011, Scrapinghub became the new official -maintainer. +bootstrap the project. In mid-2011, Scrapinghub (now Zyte) became the new +official maintainer. Here is the list of the primary authors & contributors: diff --git a/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md b/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md index 162602248..902cd523e 100644 --- a/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md +++ b/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ ## Our Pledge In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, we as -contributors and maintainers pledge to making participation in our project and +contributors and maintainers pledge to make participation in our project and our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, disability, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, level of experience, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ further defined and clarified by project maintainers. ## Enforcement Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be -reported by contacting the project team at opensource@scrapinghub.com. All +reported by contacting the project team at opensource@zyte.com. All complaints will be reviewed and investigated and will result in a response that is deemed necessary and appropriate to the circumstances. The project team is obligated to maintain confidentiality with regard to the reporter of an incident. @@ -68,7 +68,10 @@ members of the project's leadership. ## Attribution This Code of Conduct is adapted from the [Contributor Covenant][homepage], version 1.4, -available at [http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4][version] +available at [http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4][version]. [homepage]: http://contributor-covenant.org [version]: http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4/ + +For answers to common questions about this code of conduct, see +https://www.contributor-covenant.org/faq diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 0a11b05d2..a05d07aee 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ The guidelines for contributing are available here: -https://doc.scrapy.org/en/master/contributing.html +https://docs.scrapy.org/en/master/contributing.html Please do not abuse the issue tracker for support questions. If your issue topic can be rephrased to "How to ...?", please use the diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index a3c7899c6..06e812936 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ For information about installing Scrapy see: * docs/intro/install.rst (local file) -* https://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/intro/install.html (online version) +* https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/intro/install.html (online version) diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE index 6ead05ece..4d0a0863a 100644 --- a/LICENSE +++ b/LICENSE @@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, - this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. + this list of conditions, and the following disclaimer. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright - notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the + notice, this list of conditions, and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 3. Neither the name of Scrapy nor the names of its contributors may be used diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in index 94de4f3bf..ae7db51fa 100644 --- a/MANIFEST.in +++ b/MANIFEST.in @@ -3,13 +3,24 @@ include AUTHORS include INSTALL include LICENSE include MANIFEST.in +include NEWS + include scrapy/VERSION include scrapy/mime.types + +include codecov.yml +include conftest.py +include pytest.ini +include requirements-*.txt +include tox.ini + recursive-include scrapy/templates * recursive-include scrapy license.txt recursive-include docs * prune docs/build + recursive-include extras * recursive-include bin * recursive-include tests * + global-exclude __pycache__ *.py[cod] diff --git a/Makefile.buildbot b/Makefile.buildbot deleted file mode 100644 index 775538259..000000000 --- a/Makefile.buildbot +++ /dev/null @@ -1,24 +0,0 @@ -TRIAL := $(shell which trial) -BRANCH := $(shell git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD) -export PYTHONPATH=$(PWD) - -test: - coverage run --branch $(TRIAL) --reporter=text tests - rm -rf htmlcov && coverage html - -s3cmd sync -P htmlcov/ s3://static.scrapy.org/coverage-scrapy-$(BRANCH)/ - -build: - git describe --tags --match '[0-9]*' |sed 's/-/.post/;s/-g/+g/' >scrapy/VERSION - debchange -m -D unstable --force-distribution -v \ - $$(python setup.py --version |sed -r 's/([0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+)(a|b|rc|dev)([0-9]*)/\1~\2\3/')-$$(date +%s) \ - "Automatic build" - debuild -us -uc -b - -clean: - git checkout debian scrapy/VERSION - git clean -dfq - -pypi: - umask 0022 && chmod -R a+rX . && python setup.py sdist upload - -.PHONY: clean test build diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 1361eac26..05f10bb6c 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -1,3 +1,6 @@ +.. image:: /artwork/scrapy-logo.jpg + :width: 400px + ====== Scrapy ====== @@ -10,9 +13,17 @@ Scrapy :target: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Scrapy :alt: Supported Python Versions -.. image:: https://img.shields.io/travis/scrapy/scrapy/master.svg - :target: https://travis-ci.org/scrapy/scrapy - :alt: Build Status +.. image:: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/workflows/Ubuntu/badge.svg + :target: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/actions?query=workflow%3AUbuntu + :alt: Ubuntu + +.. image:: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/workflows/macOS/badge.svg + :target: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/actions?query=workflow%3AmacOS + :alt: macOS + +.. image:: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/workflows/Windows/badge.svg + :target: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/actions?query=workflow%3AWindows + :alt: Windows .. image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/wheel-yes-brightgreen.svg :target: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Scrapy @@ -34,14 +45,21 @@ Scrapy is a fast high-level web crawling and web scraping framework, used to crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages. It can be used for a wide range of purposes, from data mining to monitoring and automated testing. -For more information including a list of features check the Scrapy homepage at: -https://scrapy.org +Scrapy is maintained by Zyte_ (formerly Scrapinghub) and `many other +contributors`_. + +.. _many other contributors: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/graphs/contributors +.. _Zyte: https://www.zyte.com/ + +Check the Scrapy homepage at https://scrapy.org for more information, +including a list of features. + Requirements ============ -* Python 2.7 or Python 3.4+ -* Works on Linux, Windows, Mac OSX, BSD +* Python 3.6+ +* Works on Linux, Windows, macOS, BSD Install ======= @@ -50,29 +68,29 @@ The quick way:: pip install scrapy -For more details see the install section in the documentation: -https://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/intro/install.html +See the install section in the documentation at +https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/intro/install.html for more details. Documentation ============= -Documentation is available online at https://doc.scrapy.org/ and in the ``docs`` +Documentation is available online at https://docs.scrapy.org/ and in the ``docs`` directory. Releases ======== -You can find release notes at https://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/news.html +You can check https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/news.html for the release notes. Community (blog, twitter, mail list, IRC) ========================================= -See https://scrapy.org/community/ +See https://scrapy.org/community/ for details. Contributing ============ -See https://doc.scrapy.org/en/master/contributing.html +See https://docs.scrapy.org/en/master/contributing.html for details. Code of Conduct --------------- @@ -81,14 +99,14 @@ Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct (see https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md). By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms. -Please report unacceptable behavior to opensource@scrapinghub.com. +Please report unacceptable behavior to opensource@zyte.com. Companies using Scrapy ====================== -See https://scrapy.org/companies/ +See https://scrapy.org/companies/ for a list. Commercial Support ================== -See https://scrapy.org/support/ +See https://scrapy.org/support/ for details. diff --git a/artwork/README.rst b/artwork/README.rst index 92f6ecb7e..8a1028cde 100644 --- a/artwork/README.rst +++ b/artwork/README.rst @@ -1,5 +1,4 @@ -:orphan: - +============== Scrapy artwork ============== diff --git a/conftest.py b/conftest.py index 8b4faf8fc..117087790 100644 --- a/conftest.py +++ b/conftest.py @@ -1,44 +1,90 @@ -import glob -import six +from pathlib import Path + import pytest -from twisted import version as twisted_version +from twisted.web.http import H2_ENABLED + +from scrapy.utils.reactor import install_reactor + +from tests.keys import generate_keys def _py_files(folder): - return glob.glob(folder + "/*.py") + glob.glob(folder + "/*/*.py") + return (str(p) for p in Path(folder).rglob('*.py')) collect_ignore = [ - # deprecated or moved modules - "scrapy/conf.py", - "scrapy/stats.py", - "scrapy/project.py", - "scrapy/utils/decorator.py", - "scrapy/statscol.py", - "scrapy/squeue.py", - "scrapy/log.py", - "scrapy/dupefilter.py", - "scrapy/command.py", - "scrapy/linkextractor.py", - "scrapy/spider.py", - # not a test, but looks like a test "scrapy/utils/testsite.py", + # contains scripts to be run by tests/test_crawler.py::CrawlerProcessSubprocess + *_py_files("tests/CrawlerProcess"), + # contains scripts to be run by tests/test_crawler.py::CrawlerRunnerSubprocess + *_py_files("tests/CrawlerRunner"), +] -] + _py_files("scrapy/contrib") + _py_files("scrapy/contrib_exp") - -if (twisted_version.major, twisted_version.minor, twisted_version.micro) >= (15, 5, 0): - collect_ignore += _py_files("scrapy/xlib/tx") - - -if six.PY3: - for line in open('tests/py3-ignores.txt'): +with open('tests/ignores.txt') as reader: + for line in reader: file_path = line.strip() if file_path and file_path[0] != '#': collect_ignore.append(file_path) +if not H2_ENABLED: + collect_ignore.extend( + ( + 'scrapy/core/downloader/handlers/http2.py', + *_py_files("scrapy/core/http2"), + ) + ) + @pytest.fixture() def chdir(tmpdir): """Change to pytest-provided temporary directory""" tmpdir.chdir() + + +def pytest_collection_modifyitems(session, config, items): + # Avoid executing tests when executing `--flake8` flag (pytest-flake8) + try: + from pytest_flake8 import Flake8Item + if config.getoption('--flake8'): + items[:] = [item for item in items if isinstance(item, Flake8Item)] + except ImportError: + pass + + +def pytest_addoption(parser): + parser.addoption( + "--reactor", + default="default", + choices=["default", "asyncio"], + ) + + +@pytest.fixture(scope='class') +def reactor_pytest(request): + if not request.cls: + # doctests + return + request.cls.reactor_pytest = request.config.getoption("--reactor") + return request.cls.reactor_pytest + + +@pytest.fixture(autouse=True) +def only_asyncio(request, reactor_pytest): + if request.node.get_closest_marker('only_asyncio') and reactor_pytest != 'asyncio': + pytest.skip('This test is only run with --reactor=asyncio') + + +@pytest.fixture(autouse=True) +def only_not_asyncio(request, reactor_pytest): + if request.node.get_closest_marker('only_not_asyncio') and reactor_pytest == 'asyncio': + pytest.skip('This test is only run without --reactor=asyncio') + + +def pytest_configure(config): + if config.getoption("--reactor") == "asyncio": + install_reactor("twisted.internet.asyncioreactor.AsyncioSelectorReactor") + + +# Generate localhost certificate files, needed by some tests +generate_keys() diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog deleted file mode 100644 index dde97f9e3..000000000 --- a/debian/changelog +++ /dev/null @@ -1,5 +0,0 @@ -scrapy (0.11) unstable; urgency=low - - * Initial release. - - -- Scrapinghub Team Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:24:02 -0300 diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat deleted file mode 100644 index 7f8f011eb..000000000 --- a/debian/compat +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -7 diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control deleted file mode 100644 index 2cc8eedf4..000000000 --- a/debian/control +++ /dev/null @@ -1,20 +0,0 @@ -Source: scrapy -Section: python -Priority: optional -Maintainer: Scrapinghub Team -Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50), python (>=2.7), python-twisted, python-w3lib, python-lxml, python-six (>=1.5.2) -Standards-Version: 3.8.4 -Homepage: https://scrapy.org/ - -Package: scrapy -Architecture: all -Depends: ${python:Depends}, python-lxml, python-twisted, python-openssl, - python-w3lib (>= 1.8.0), python-queuelib, python-cssselect (>= 0.9), python-six (>=1.5.2) -Recommends: python-setuptools -Conflicts: python-scrapy, scrapy-0.25 -Provides: python-scrapy, scrapy-0.25 -Description: Python web crawling and web scraping framework - Scrapy is a fast high-level web crawling and web scraping framework, - used to crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages. - It can be used for a wide range of purposes, from data mining to - monitoring and automated testing. diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright deleted file mode 100644 index c1bf47565..000000000 --- a/debian/copyright +++ /dev/null @@ -1,40 +0,0 @@ -This package was debianized by the Scrapinghub team . - -It was downloaded from https://scrapy.org - -Upstream Author: Scrapy Developers - -Copyright: 2007-2013 Scrapy Developers - -License: bsd - -Copyright (c) Scrapy developers. -All rights reserved. - -Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, -are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: - - 1. 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They can be extensions # coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom ones. extensions = [ + 'hoverxref.extension', + 'notfound.extension', 'scrapydocs', - 'sphinx.ext.autodoc' + 'sphinx.ext.autodoc', + 'sphinx.ext.coverage', + 'sphinx.ext.intersphinx', + 'sphinx.ext.viewcode', ] # Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory. @@ -44,8 +48,8 @@ source_suffix = '.rst' master_doc = 'index' # General information about the project. -project = u'Scrapy' -copyright = u'2008-2016, Scrapy developers' +project = 'Scrapy' +copyright = f'2008–{datetime.now().year}, Scrapy developers' # The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for # |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the @@ -73,6 +77,8 @@ language = 'en' # List of documents that shouldn't be included in the build. #unused_docs = [] +exclude_patterns = ['build'] + # List of directories, relative to source directory, that shouldn't be searched # for source files. exclude_trees = ['.build'] @@ -94,6 +100,9 @@ exclude_trees = ['.build'] # The name of the Pygments (syntax highlighting) style to use. pygments_style = 'sphinx' +# List of Sphinx warnings that will not be raised +suppress_warnings = ['epub.unknown_project_files'] + # Options for HTML output # ----------------------- @@ -113,7 +122,6 @@ html_theme = 'sphinx_rtd_theme' import sphinx_rtd_theme html_theme_path = [sphinx_rtd_theme.get_html_theme_path()] - # The style sheet to use for HTML and HTML Help pages. 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List of tuples # (source start file, target name, title, author, document class [howto/manual]). latex_documents = [ - ('index', 'Scrapy.tex', u'Scrapy Documentation', - u'Scrapy developers', 'manual'), + ('index', 'Scrapy.tex', 'Scrapy Documentation', + 'Scrapy developers', 'manual'), ] # The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top of @@ -218,3 +230,95 @@ linkcheck_ignore = [ 'http://localhost:\d+', 'http://hg.scrapy.org', 'http://directory.google.com/' ] + + +# Options for the Coverage extension +# ---------------------------------- +coverage_ignore_pyobjects = [ + # Contract’s add_pre_hook and add_post_hook are not documented because + # they should be transparent to contract developers, for whom pre_hook and + # post_hook should be the actual concern. + r'\bContract\.add_(pre|post)_hook$', + + # ContractsManager is an internal class, developers are not expected to + # interact with it directly in any way. + r'\bContractsManager\b$', + + # For default contracts we only want to document their general purpose in + # their __init__ method, the methods they reimplement to achieve that purpose + # should be irrelevant to developers using those contracts. + r'\w+Contract\.(adjust_request_args|(pre|post)_process)$', + + # Methods of downloader middlewares are not documented, only the classes + # themselves, since downloader middlewares are controlled through Scrapy + # settings. + r'^scrapy\.downloadermiddlewares\.\w*?\.(\w*?Middleware|DownloaderStats)\.', + + # Base classes of downloader middlewares are implementation details that + # are not meant for users. + r'^scrapy\.downloadermiddlewares\.\w*?\.Base\w*?Middleware', + + # Private exception used by the command-line interface implementation. + r'^scrapy\.exceptions\.UsageError', + + # Methods of BaseItemExporter subclasses are only documented in + # BaseItemExporter. + r'^scrapy\.exporters\.(?!BaseItemExporter\b)\w*?\.', + + # Extension behavior is only modified through settings. Methods of + # extension classes, as well as helper functions, are implementation + # details that are not documented. + r'^scrapy\.extensions\.[a-z]\w*?\.[A-Z]\w*?\.', # methods + r'^scrapy\.extensions\.[a-z]\w*?\.[a-z]', # helper functions + + # Never documented before, and deprecated now. + r'^scrapy\.item\.DictItem$', + r'^scrapy\.linkextractors\.FilteringLinkExtractor$', + + # Implementation detail of LxmlLinkExtractor + r'^scrapy\.linkextractors\.lxmlhtml\.LxmlParserLinkExtractor', +] + + +# Options for the InterSphinx extension +# ------------------------------------- + +intersphinx_mapping = { + 'attrs': ('https://www.attrs.org/en/stable/', None), + 'coverage': ('https://coverage.readthedocs.io/en/stable', None), + 'cryptography' : ('https://cryptography.io/en/latest/', None), + 'cssselect': ('https://cssselect.readthedocs.io/en/latest', None), + 'itemloaders': ('https://itemloaders.readthedocs.io/en/latest/', None), + 'pytest': ('https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest', None), + 'python': ('https://docs.python.org/3', None), + 'sphinx': ('https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master', None), + 'tox': ('https://tox.readthedocs.io/en/latest', None), + 'twisted': ('https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current', None), + 'twistedapi': ('https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/api', None), +} + + +# Options for sphinx-hoverxref options +# ------------------------------------ + +hoverxref_auto_ref = True +hoverxref_role_types = { + "class": "tooltip", + "confval": "tooltip", + "hoverxref": "tooltip", + "mod": "tooltip", + "ref": "tooltip", +} +hoverxref_roles = ['command', 'reqmeta', 'setting', 'signal'] + + +def setup(app): + app.connect('autodoc-skip-member', maybe_skip_member) + + +def maybe_skip_member(app, what, name, obj, skip, options): + if not skip: + # autodocs was generating a text "alias of" for the following members + # https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/4422 + return name in {'default_item_class', 'default_selector_class'} + return skip diff --git a/docs/conftest.py b/docs/conftest.py new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a0636f8ac --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/conftest.py @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +import os +from doctest import ELLIPSIS, NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE + +from scrapy.http.response.html import HtmlResponse +from sybil import Sybil +try: + # >2.0.1 + from sybil.parsers.codeblock import PythonCodeBlockParser +except ImportError: + from sybil.parsers.codeblock import CodeBlockParser as PythonCodeBlockParser +from sybil.parsers.doctest import DocTestParser +from sybil.parsers.skip import skip + + +def load_response(url, filename): + input_path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '_tests', filename) + with open(input_path, 'rb') as input_file: + return HtmlResponse(url, body=input_file.read()) + + +def setup(namespace): + namespace['load_response'] = load_response + + +pytest_collect_file = Sybil( + parsers=[ + DocTestParser(optionflags=ELLIPSIS | NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE), + PythonCodeBlockParser(future_imports=['print_function']), + skip, + ], + pattern='*.rst', + setup=setup, +).pytest() diff --git a/docs/contributing.rst b/docs/contributing.rst index f4f9e393f..4d2580a6c 100644 --- a/docs/contributing.rst +++ b/docs/contributing.rst @@ -7,12 +7,12 @@ Contributing to Scrapy .. important:: Double check that you are reading the most recent version of this document at - https://doc.scrapy.org/en/master/contributing.html + https://docs.scrapy.org/en/master/contributing.html There are many ways to contribute to Scrapy. Here are some of them: * Blog about Scrapy. Tell the world how you're using Scrapy. This will help - newcomers with more examples and the Scrapy project to increase its + newcomers with more examples and will help the Scrapy project to increase its visibility. * Report bugs and request features in the `issue tracker`_, trying to follow @@ -39,23 +39,23 @@ Reporting bugs trusted Scrapy developers, and its archives are not public. Well-written bug reports are very helpful, so keep in mind the following -guidelines when reporting a new bug. +guidelines when you're going to report a new bug. * check the :ref:`FAQ ` first to see if your issue is addressed in a well-known question -* if you have a general question about scrapy usage, please ask it at +* if you have a general question about Scrapy usage, please ask it at `Stack Overflow `__ (use "scrapy" tag). -* check the `open issues`_ to see if it has already been reported. If it has, - don't dismiss the report, but check the ticket history and comments. If you - have additional useful information, please leave a comment, or consider +* check the `open issues`_ to see if the issue has already been reported. If it + has, don't dismiss the report, but check the ticket history and comments. If + you have additional useful information, please leave a comment, or consider :ref:`sending a pull request ` with a fix. * search the `scrapy-users`_ list and `Scrapy subreddit`_ to see if it has been discussed there, or if you're not sure if what you're seeing is a bug. - You can also ask in the `#scrapy` IRC channel. + You can also ask in the ``#scrapy`` IRC channel. * write **complete, reproducible, specific bug reports**. The smaller the test case, the better. Remember that other developers won't have your project to @@ -99,6 +99,20 @@ Well-written patches should: the documentation changes in the same patch. See `Documentation policies`_ below. +* if you're adding a private API, please add a regular expression to the + ``coverage_ignore_pyobjects`` variable of ``docs/conf.py`` to exclude the new + private API from documentation coverage checks. + + To see if your private API is skipped properly, generate a documentation + coverage report as follows:: + + tox -e docs-coverage + +* if you are removing deprecated code, first make sure that at least 1 year + (12 months) has passed since the release that introduced the deprecation. + See :ref:`deprecation-policy`. + + .. _submitting-patches: Submitting patches @@ -122,11 +136,11 @@ conversation in the `Scrapy subreddit`_ to discuss your idea first. Sometimes there is an existing pull request for the problem you'd like to solve, which is stalled for some reason. Often the pull request is in a right direction, but changes are requested by Scrapy maintainers, and the -original pull request author haven't had time to address them. +original pull request author hasn't had time to address them. In this case consider picking up this pull request: open a new pull request with all commits from the original pull request, as well as additional changes to address the raised issues. Doing so helps a lot; it is -not considered rude as soon as the original author is acknowledged by keeping +not considered rude as long as the original author is acknowledged by keeping his/her commits. You can pull an existing pull request to a local branch @@ -134,7 +148,7 @@ by running ``git fetch upstream pull/$PR_NUMBER/head:$BRANCH_NAME_TO_CREATE`` (replace 'upstream' with a remote name for scrapy repository, ``$PR_NUMBER`` with an ID of the pull request, and ``$BRANCH_NAME_TO_CREATE`` with a name of the branch you want to create locally). -See also: https://help.github.com/articles/checking-out-pull-requests-locally/#modifying-an-inactive-pull-request-locally. +See also: https://help.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-issues-and-pull-requests/checking-out-pull-requests-locally#modifying-an-inactive-pull-request-locally. When writing GitHub pull requests, try to keep titles short but descriptive. E.g. For bug #411: "Scrapy hangs if an exception raises in start_requests" @@ -143,9 +157,12 @@ instead of "Fix for #411". Complete titles make it easy to skim through the issue tracker. Finally, try to keep aesthetic changes (:pep:`8` compliance, unused imports -removal, etc) in separate commits than functional changes. This will make pull +removal, etc) in separate commits from functional changes. This will make pull requests easier to review and more likely to get merged. + +.. _coding-style: + Coding style ============ @@ -154,65 +171,96 @@ Scrapy: * Unless otherwise specified, follow :pep:`8`. -* It's OK to use lines longer than 80 chars if it improves the code +* It's OK to use lines longer than 79 chars if it improves the code readability. * Don't put your name in the code you contribute; git provides enough metadata to identify author of the code. - See https://help.github.com/articles/setting-your-username-in-git/ for + See https://help.github.com/en/github/using-git/setting-your-username-in-git for setup instructions. +.. _documentation-policies: + Documentation policies ====================== -* **Don't** use docstrings for documenting classes, or methods which are - already documented in the official (sphinx) documentation. Alternatively, - **do** provide a docstring, but make sure sphinx documentation uses - autodoc_ extension to pull the docstring. For example, the - :meth:`ItemLoader.add_value` method should be either - documented only in the sphinx documentation (not it a docstring), or - it should have a docstring which is pulled to sphinx documentation using - autodoc_ extension. +For reference documentation of API members (classes, methods, etc.) use +docstrings and make sure that the Sphinx documentation uses the +:mod:`~sphinx.ext.autodoc` extension to pull the docstrings. API reference +documentation should follow docstring conventions (`PEP 257`_) and be +IDE-friendly: short, to the point, and it may provide short examples. -* **Do** use docstrings for documenting functions not present in the official - (sphinx) documentation, such as functions from ``scrapy.utils`` package and - its sub-modules. +Other types of documentation, such as tutorials or topics, should be covered in +files within the ``docs/`` directory. This includes documentation that is +specific to an API member, but goes beyond API reference documentation. + +In any case, if something is covered in a docstring, use the +:mod:`~sphinx.ext.autodoc` extension to pull the docstring into the +documentation instead of duplicating the docstring in files within the +``docs/`` directory. + +Documentation updates that cover new or modified features must use Sphinx’s +:rst:dir:`versionadded` and :rst:dir:`versionchanged` directives. Use +``VERSION`` as version, we will replace it with the actual version right before +the corresponding release. When we release a new major or minor version of +Scrapy, we remove these directives if they are older than 3 years. + +Documentation about deprecated features must be removed as those features are +deprecated, so that new readers do not run into it. New deprecations and +deprecation removals are documented in the :ref:`release notes `. -.. _autodoc: http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/ext/autodoc.html Tests ===== -Tests are implemented using the `Twisted unit-testing framework`_, running -tests requires `tox`_. +Tests are implemented using the :doc:`Twisted unit-testing framework +`. Running tests requires +:doc:`tox `. + +.. _running-tests: Running tests ------------- -Make sure you have a recent enough `tox`_ installation: +To run all tests:: - ``tox --version`` - -If your version is older than 1.7.0, please update it first: - - ``pip install -U tox`` - -To run all tests go to the root directory of Scrapy source code and run: - - ``tox`` + tox To run a specific test (say ``tests/test_loader.py``) use: ``tox -- tests/test_loader.py`` -To see coverage report install `coverage`_ (``pip install coverage``) and run: +To run the tests on a specific :doc:`tox ` environment, use +``-e `` with an environment name from ``tox.ini``. For example, to run +the tests with Python 3.6 use:: + + tox -e py36 + +You can also specify a comma-separated list of environments, and use :ref:`tox’s +parallel mode ` to run the tests on multiple environments in +parallel:: + + tox -e py36,py38 -p auto + +To pass command-line options to :doc:`pytest `, add them after +``--`` in your call to :doc:`tox `. Using ``--`` overrides the +default positional arguments defined in ``tox.ini``, so you must include those +default positional arguments (``scrapy tests``) after ``--`` as well:: + + tox -- scrapy tests -x # stop after first failure + +You can also use the `pytest-xdist`_ plugin. For example, to run all tests on +the Python 3.6 :doc:`tox ` environment using all your CPU cores:: + + tox -e py36 -- scrapy tests -n auto + +To see coverage report install :doc:`coverage ` +(``pip install coverage``) and run: ``coverage report`` see output of ``coverage --help`` for more options like html or xml report. -.. _coverage: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/coverage - Writing tests ------------- @@ -233,9 +281,9 @@ And their unit-tests are in:: .. _issue tracker: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/issues .. _scrapy-users: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/scrapy-users .. _Scrapy subreddit: https://reddit.com/r/scrapy -.. _Twisted unit-testing framework: https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/core/development/policy/test-standard.html .. _AUTHORS: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/blob/master/AUTHORS .. _tests/: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/tree/master/tests .. _open issues: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/issues -.. _pull request: https://help.github.com/send-pull-requests/ -.. _tox: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tox +.. _PEP 257: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0257/ +.. _pull request: https://help.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-issues-and-pull-requests/creating-a-pull-request +.. _pytest-xdist: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-xdist diff --git a/docs/faq.rst b/docs/faq.rst index 7a0628f88..8283cab11 100644 --- a/docs/faq.rst +++ b/docs/faq.rst @@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ In other words, comparing `BeautifulSoup`_ (or `lxml`_) to Scrapy is like comparing `jinja2`_ to `Django`_. .. _BeautifulSoup: https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ -.. _lxml: http://lxml.de/ -.. _jinja2: http://jinja.pocoo.org/ +.. _lxml: https://lxml.de/ +.. _jinja2: https://palletsprojects.com/p/jinja/ .. _Django: https://www.djangoproject.com/ Can I use Scrapy with BeautifulSoup? @@ -64,20 +64,6 @@ Here's an example spider using BeautifulSoup API, with ``lxml`` as the HTML pars .. _BeautifulSoup's official documentation: https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#specifying-the-parser-to-use -.. _faq-python-versions: - -What Python versions does Scrapy support? ------------------------------------------ - -Scrapy is supported under Python 2.7 and Python 3.4+ -under CPython (default Python implementation) and PyPy (starting with PyPy 5.9). -Python 2.6 support was dropped starting at Scrapy 0.20. -Python 3 support was added in Scrapy 1.1. -PyPy support was added in Scrapy 1.4, PyPy3 support was added in Scrapy 1.5. - -.. note:: - For Python 3 support on Windows, it is recommended to use - Anaconda/Miniconda as :ref:`outlined in the installation guide `. Did Scrapy "steal" X from Django? --------------------------------- @@ -129,13 +115,23 @@ Does Scrapy crawl in breadth-first or depth-first order? By default, Scrapy uses a `LIFO`_ queue for storing pending requests, which basically means that it crawls in `DFO order`_. This order is more convenient -in most cases. If you do want to crawl in true `BFO order`_, you can do it by +in most cases. + +If you do want to crawl in true `BFO order`_, you can do it by setting the following settings:: DEPTH_PRIORITY = 1 SCHEDULER_DISK_QUEUE = 'scrapy.squeues.PickleFifoDiskQueue' SCHEDULER_MEMORY_QUEUE = 'scrapy.squeues.FifoMemoryQueue' +While pending requests are below the configured values of +:setting:`CONCURRENT_REQUESTS`, :setting:`CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN` or +:setting:`CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_IP`, those requests are sent +concurrently. As a result, the first few requests of a crawl rarely follow the +desired order. Lowering those settings to ``1`` enforces the desired order, but +it significantly slows down the crawl as a whole. + + My Scrapy crawler has memory leaks. What can I do? -------------------------------------------------- @@ -149,6 +145,41 @@ How can I make Scrapy consume less memory? See previous question. +How can I prevent memory errors due to many allowed domains? +------------------------------------------------------------ + +If you have a spider with a long list of +:attr:`~scrapy.Spider.allowed_domains` (e.g. 50,000+), consider +replacing the default +:class:`~scrapy.spidermiddlewares.offsite.OffsiteMiddleware` spider middleware +with a :ref:`custom spider middleware ` that requires +less memory. For example: + +- If your domain names are similar enough, use your own regular expression + instead joining the strings in + :attr:`~scrapy.Spider.allowed_domains` into a complex regular + expression. + +- If you can `meet the installation requirements`_, use pyre2_ instead of + Python’s re_ to compile your URL-filtering regular expression. See + :issue:`1908`. + +See also other suggestions at `StackOverflow`_. + +.. note:: Remember to disable + :class:`scrapy.spidermiddlewares.offsite.OffsiteMiddleware` when you enable + your custom implementation:: + + SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES = { + 'scrapy.spidermiddlewares.offsite.OffsiteMiddleware': None, + 'myproject.middlewares.CustomOffsiteMiddleware': 500, + } + +.. _meet the installation requirements: https://github.com/andreasvc/pyre2#installation +.. _pyre2: https://github.com/andreasvc/pyre2 +.. _re: https://docs.python.org/library/re.html +.. _StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/q/36440681/939364 + Can I use Basic HTTP Authentication in my spiders? -------------------------------------------------- @@ -240,15 +271,15 @@ Simplest way to dump all my scraped items into a JSON/CSV/XML file? To dump into a JSON file:: - scrapy crawl myspider -o items.json + scrapy crawl myspider -O items.json To dump into a CSV file:: - scrapy crawl myspider -o items.csv + scrapy crawl myspider -O items.csv To dump into a XML file:: - scrapy crawl myspider -o items.xml + scrapy crawl myspider -O items.xml For more information see :ref:`topics-feed-exports` @@ -259,7 +290,7 @@ The ``__VIEWSTATE`` parameter is used in sites built with ASP.NET/VB.NET. For more info on how it works see `this page`_. Also, here's an `example spider`_ which scrapes one of these sites. -.. _this page: http://search.cpan.org/~ecarroll/HTML-TreeBuilderX-ASP_NET-0.09/lib/HTML/TreeBuilderX/ASP_NET.pm +.. _this page: https://metacpan.org/pod/release/ECARROLL/HTML-TreeBuilderX-ASP_NET-0.09/lib/HTML/TreeBuilderX/ASP_NET.pm .. _example spider: https://github.com/AmbientLighter/rpn-fas/blob/master/fas/spiders/rnp.py What's the best way to parse big XML/CSV data feeds? @@ -319,7 +350,76 @@ I'm scraping a XML document and my XPath selector doesn't return any items You may need to remove namespaces. See :ref:`removing-namespaces`. + +.. _faq-split-item: + +How to split an item into multiple items in an item pipeline? +------------------------------------------------------------- + +:ref:`Item pipelines ` cannot yield multiple items per +input item. :ref:`Create a spider middleware ` +instead, and use its +:meth:`~scrapy.spidermiddlewares.SpiderMiddleware.process_spider_output` +method for this purpose. For example:: + + from copy import deepcopy + + from itemadapter import is_item, ItemAdapter + + class MultiplyItemsMiddleware: + + def process_spider_output(self, response, result, spider): + for item in result: + if is_item(item): + adapter = ItemAdapter(item) + for _ in range(adapter['multiply_by']): + yield deepcopy(item) + +Does Scrapy support IPv6 addresses? +----------------------------------- + +Yes, by setting :setting:`DNS_RESOLVER` to ``scrapy.resolver.CachingHostnameResolver``. +Note that by doing so, you lose the ability to set a specific timeout for DNS requests +(the value of the :setting:`DNS_TIMEOUT` setting is ignored). + + +.. _faq-specific-reactor: + +How to deal with ``: filedescriptor out of range in select()`` exceptions? +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +This issue `has been reported`_ to appear when running broad crawls in macOS, where the default +Twisted reactor is :class:`twisted.internet.selectreactor.SelectReactor`. Switching to a +different reactor is possible by using the :setting:`TWISTED_REACTOR` setting. + + +.. _faq-stop-response-download: + +How can I cancel the download of a given response? +-------------------------------------------------- + +In some situations, it might be useful to stop the download of a certain response. +For instance, sometimes you can determine whether or not you need the full contents +of a response by inspecting its headers or the first bytes of its body. In that case, +you could save resources by attaching a handler to the :class:`~scrapy.signals.bytes_received` +or :class:`~scrapy.signals.headers_received` signals and raising a +:exc:`~scrapy.exceptions.StopDownload` exception. Please refer to the +:ref:`topics-stop-response-download` topic for additional information and examples. + + +Running ``runspider`` I get ``error: No spider found in file: `` +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +This may happen if your Scrapy project has a spider module with a name that +conflicts with the name of one of the `Python standard library modules`_, such +as ``csv.py`` or ``os.py``, or any `Python package`_ that you have installed. +See :issue:`2680`. + + +.. _has been reported: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/issues/2905 +.. _Python standard library modules: https://docs.python.org/py-modindex.html +.. _Python package: https://pypi.org/ .. _user agents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent .. _LIFO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_(abstract_data_type) .. _DFO order: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth-first_search -.. _BFO order: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadth-first_search +.. _BFO order: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadth-first_search \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst index 7e8c979c4..433798aa8 100644 --- a/docs/index.rst +++ b/docs/index.rst @@ -4,7 +4,13 @@ Scrapy |version| documentation ============================== -This documentation contains everything you need to know about Scrapy. +Scrapy is a fast high-level `web crawling`_ and `web scraping`_ framework, used +to crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages. It can be used +for a wide range of purposes, from data mining to monitoring and automated +testing. + +.. _web crawling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler +.. _web scraping: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping Getting help ============ @@ -72,7 +78,6 @@ Basic concepts topics/settings topics/exceptions - :doc:`topics/commands` Learn about the command-line tool used to manage your Scrapy project. @@ -151,20 +156,22 @@ Solving specific problems topics/contracts topics/practices topics/broad-crawls - topics/firefox - topics/firebug + topics/developer-tools + topics/dynamic-content topics/leaks topics/media-pipeline topics/deploy topics/autothrottle topics/benchmarking topics/jobs + topics/coroutines + topics/asyncio :doc:`faq` Get answers to most frequently asked questions. :doc:`topics/debug` - Learn how to debug common problems of your scrapy spider. + Learn how to debug common problems of your Scrapy spider. :doc:`topics/contracts` Learn how to use contracts for testing your spiders. @@ -175,11 +182,11 @@ Solving specific problems :doc:`topics/broad-crawls` Tune Scrapy for crawling a lot domains in parallel. -:doc:`topics/firefox` - Learn how to scrape with Firefox and some useful add-ons. +:doc:`topics/developer-tools` + Learn how to scrape with your browser's developer tools. -:doc:`topics/firebug` - Learn how to scrape efficiently using Firebug. +:doc:`topics/dynamic-content` + Read webpage data that is loaded dynamically. :doc:`topics/leaks` Learn how to find and get rid of memory leaks in your crawler. @@ -199,6 +206,12 @@ Solving specific problems :doc:`topics/jobs` Learn how to pause and resume crawls for large spiders. +:doc:`topics/coroutines` + Use the :ref:`coroutine syntax `. + +:doc:`topics/asyncio` + Use :mod:`asyncio` and :mod:`asyncio`-powered libraries. + .. _extending-scrapy: Extending Scrapy @@ -214,6 +227,7 @@ Extending Scrapy topics/extensions topics/api topics/signals + topics/scheduler topics/exporters @@ -235,6 +249,9 @@ Extending Scrapy :doc:`topics/signals` See all available signals and how to work with them. +:doc:`topics/scheduler` + Understand the scheduler component. + :doc:`topics/exporters` Quickly export your scraped items to a file (XML, CSV, etc). diff --git a/docs/intro/install.rst b/docs/intro/install.rst index 4a9aa3cfb..b8d3a16bc 100644 --- a/docs/intro/install.rst +++ b/docs/intro/install.rst @@ -4,15 +4,22 @@ Installation guide ================== +.. _faq-python-versions: + +Supported Python versions +========================= + +Scrapy requires Python 3.6+, either the CPython implementation (default) or +the PyPy 7.2.0+ implementation (see :ref:`python:implementations`). + +.. _intro-install-scrapy: + Installing Scrapy ================= -Scrapy runs on Python 2.7 and Python 3.4 or above -under CPython (default Python implementation) and PyPy (starting with PyPy 5.9). - If you're using `Anaconda`_ or `Miniconda`_, you can install the package from the `conda-forge`_ channel, which has up-to-date packages for Linux, Windows -and OS X. +and macOS. To install Scrapy using ``conda``, run:: @@ -23,14 +30,15 @@ you can install Scrapy and its dependencies from PyPI with:: pip install Scrapy +We strongly recommend that you install Scrapy in :ref:`a dedicated virtualenv `, +to avoid conflicting with your system packages. + Note that sometimes this may require solving compilation issues for some Scrapy dependencies depending on your operating system, so be sure to check the :ref:`intro-install-platform-notes`. -We strongly recommend that you install Scrapy in :ref:`a dedicated virtualenv `, -to avoid conflicting with your system packages. - -For more detailed and platform specifics instructions, read on. +For more detailed and platform specifics instructions, as well as +troubleshooting information, read on. Things that are good to know @@ -62,10 +70,9 @@ In case of any trouble related to these dependencies, please refer to their respective installation instructions: * `lxml installation`_ -* `cryptography installation`_ +* :doc:`cryptography installation ` -.. _lxml installation: http://lxml.de/installation.html -.. _cryptography installation: https://cryptography.io/en/latest/installation/ +.. _lxml installation: https://lxml.de/installation.html .. _intro-using-virtualenv: @@ -77,40 +84,21 @@ TL;DR: We recommend installing Scrapy inside a virtual environment on all platforms. Python packages can be installed either globally (a.k.a system wide), -or in user-space. We do not recommend installing scrapy system wide. +or in user-space. We do not recommend installing Scrapy system wide. -Instead, we recommend that you install scrapy within a so-called -"virtual environment" (`virtualenv`_). -Virtualenvs allow you to not conflict with already-installed Python +Instead, we recommend that you install Scrapy within a so-called +"virtual environment" (:mod:`venv`). +Virtual environments allow you to not conflict with already-installed Python system packages (which could break some of your system tools and scripts), and still install packages normally with ``pip`` (without ``sudo`` and the likes). -To get started with virtual environments, see `virtualenv installation instructions`_. -To install it globally (having it globally installed actually helps here), -it should be a matter of running:: +See :ref:`tut-venv` on how to create your virtual environment. - $ [sudo] pip install virtualenv - -Check this `user guide`_ on how to create your virtualenv. - -.. note:: - If you use Linux or OS X, `virtualenvwrapper`_ is a handy tool to create virtualenvs. - -Once you have created a virtualenv, you can install scrapy inside it with ``pip``, +Once you have created a virtual environment, you can install Scrapy inside it with ``pip``, just like any other Python package. (See :ref:`platform-specific guides ` below for non-Python dependencies that you may need to install beforehand). -Python virtualenvs can be created to use Python 2 by default, or Python 3 by default. - -* If you want to install scrapy with Python 3, install scrapy within a Python 3 virtualenv. -* And if you want to install scrapy with Python 2, install scrapy within a Python 2 virtualenv. - -.. _virtualenv: https://virtualenv.pypa.io -.. _virtualenv installation instructions: https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/stable/installation/ -.. _virtualenvwrapper: https://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html -.. _user guide: https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/stable/userguide/ - .. _intro-install-platform-notes: @@ -130,6 +118,27 @@ Once you've installed `Anaconda`_ or `Miniconda`_, install Scrapy with:: conda install -c conda-forge scrapy +To install Scrapy on Windows using ``pip``: + +.. warning:: + This installation method requires “Microsoft Visual C++” for installing some + Scrapy dependencies, which demands significantly more disk space than Anaconda. + +#. Download and execute `Microsoft C++ Build Tools`_ to install the Visual Studio Installer. + +#. Run the Visual Studio Installer. + +#. Under the Workloads section, select **C++ build tools**. + +#. Check the installation details and make sure following packages are selected as optional components: + + * **MSVC** (e.g MSVC v142 - VS 2019 C++ x64/x86 build tools (v14.23) ) + + * **Windows SDK** (e.g Windows 10 SDK (10.0.18362.0)) + +#. Install the Visual Studio Build Tools. + +Now, you should be able to :ref:`install Scrapy ` using ``pip``. .. _intro-install-ubuntu: @@ -145,19 +154,15 @@ albeit with potential issues with TLS connections. typically too old and slow to catch up with latest Scrapy. -To install scrapy on Ubuntu (or Ubuntu-based) systems, you need to install +To install Scrapy on Ubuntu (or Ubuntu-based) systems, you need to install these dependencies:: - sudo apt-get install python-dev python-pip libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev zlib1g-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev + sudo apt-get install python3 python3-dev python3-pip libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev zlib1g-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev -- ``python-dev``, ``zlib1g-dev``, ``libxml2-dev`` and ``libxslt1-dev`` +- ``python3-dev``, ``zlib1g-dev``, ``libxml2-dev`` and ``libxslt1-dev`` are required for ``lxml`` - ``libssl-dev`` and ``libffi-dev`` are required for ``cryptography`` -If you want to install scrapy on Python 3, you’ll also need Python 3 development headers:: - - sudo apt-get install python3 python3-dev - Inside a :ref:`virtualenv `, you can install Scrapy with ``pip`` after that:: @@ -170,11 +175,11 @@ you can install Scrapy with ``pip`` after that:: .. _intro-install-macos: -Mac OS X --------- +macOS +----- Building Scrapy's dependencies requires the presence of a C compiler and -development headers. On OS X this is typically provided by Apple’s Xcode +development headers. On macOS this is typically provided by Apple’s Xcode development tools. To install the Xcode command line tools open a terminal window and run:: @@ -185,7 +190,7 @@ prevents ``pip`` from updating system packages. This has to be addressed to successfully install Scrapy and its dependencies. Here are some proposed solutions: -* *(Recommended)* **Don't** use system python, install a new, updated version +* *(Recommended)* **Don't** use system Python. Install a new, updated version that doesn't conflict with the rest of your system. Here's how to do it using the `homebrew`_ package manager: @@ -210,15 +215,12 @@ solutions: brew update; brew upgrade python -* *(Optional)* Install Scrapy inside an isolated python environment. +* *(Optional)* :ref:`Install Scrapy inside a Python virtual environment + `. - This method is a workaround for the above OS X issue, but it's an overall + This method is a workaround for the above macOS issue, but it's an overall good practice for managing dependencies and can complement the first method. - `virtualenv`_ is a tool you can use to create virtual environments in python. - We recommended reading a tutorial like - http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/dev/virtualenvs/ to get started. - After any of these workarounds you should be able to install Scrapy:: pip install Scrapy @@ -230,36 +232,64 @@ PyPy We recommend using the latest PyPy version. The version tested is 5.9.0. For PyPy3, only Linux installation was tested. -Most scrapy dependencides now have binary wheels for CPython, but not for PyPy. -This means that these dependecies will be built during installation. -On OS X, you are likely to face an issue with building Cryptography dependency, -solution to this problem is described +Most Scrapy dependencies now have binary wheels for CPython, but not for PyPy. +This means that these dependencies will be built during installation. +On macOS, you are likely to face an issue with building the Cryptography +dependency. The solution to this problem is described `here `_, that is to ``brew install openssl`` and then export the flags that this command -recommends (only needed when installing scrapy). Installing on Linux has no special +recommends (only needed when installing Scrapy). Installing on Linux has no special issues besides installing build dependencies. -Installing scrapy with PyPy on Windows is not tested. +Installing Scrapy with PyPy on Windows is not tested. -You can check that scrapy is installed correctly by running ``scrapy bench``. +You can check that Scrapy is installed correctly by running ``scrapy bench``. If this command gives errors such as ``TypeError: ... got 2 unexpected keyword arguments``, this means that setuptools was unable to pick up one PyPy-specific dependency. To fix this issue, run ``pip install 'PyPyDispatcher>=2.1.0'``. +.. _intro-install-troubleshooting: + +Troubleshooting +=============== + +AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'OP_NO_TLSv1_1' +---------------------------------------------------------------- + +After you install or upgrade Scrapy, Twisted or pyOpenSSL, you may get an +exception with the following traceback:: + + […] + File "[…]/site-packages/twisted/protocols/tls.py", line 63, in + from twisted.internet._sslverify import _setAcceptableProtocols + File "[…]/site-packages/twisted/internet/_sslverify.py", line 38, in + TLSVersion.TLSv1_1: SSL.OP_NO_TLSv1_1, + AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'OP_NO_TLSv1_1' + +The reason you get this exception is that your system or virtual environment +has a version of pyOpenSSL that your version of Twisted does not support. + +To install a version of pyOpenSSL that your version of Twisted supports, +reinstall Twisted with the :code:`tls` extra option:: + + pip install twisted[tls] + +For details, see `Issue #2473 `_. + .. _Python: https://www.python.org/ .. _pip: https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/installing/ -.. _lxml: http://lxml.de/ -.. _parsel: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/parsel -.. _w3lib: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/w3lib -.. _twisted: https://twistedmatrix.com/ -.. _cryptography: https://cryptography.io/ -.. _pyOpenSSL: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyOpenSSL +.. _lxml: https://lxml.de/index.html +.. _parsel: https://pypi.org/project/parsel/ +.. _w3lib: https://pypi.org/project/w3lib/ +.. _twisted: https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ +.. _cryptography: https://cryptography.io/en/latest/ +.. _pyOpenSSL: https://pypi.org/project/pyOpenSSL/ .. _setuptools: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools -.. _AUR Scrapy package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/scrapy/ .. _homebrew: https://brew.sh/ .. _zsh: https://www.zsh.org/ -.. _Scrapinghub: https://scrapinghub.com .. _Anaconda: https://docs.anaconda.com/anaconda/ -.. _Miniconda: https://conda.io/docs/user-guide/install/index.html +.. _Miniconda: https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/install/index.html +.. _Visual Studio: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/install-visual-studio +.. _Microsoft C++ Build Tools: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/ .. _conda-forge: https://conda-forge.org/ diff --git a/docs/intro/overview.rst b/docs/intro/overview.rst index 6f1c2c43f..405bf845d 100644 --- a/docs/intro/overview.rst +++ b/docs/intro/overview.rst @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Scrapy at a glance ================== -Scrapy is an application framework for crawling web sites and extracting +Scrapy (/ˈskreɪpaɪ/) is an application framework for crawling web sites and extracting structured data which can be used for a wide range of useful applications, like data mining, information processing or historical archival. @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ http://quotes.toscrape.com, following the pagination:: class QuotesSpider(scrapy.Spider): - name = "quotes" + name = 'quotes' start_urls = [ 'http://quotes.toscrape.com/tag/humor/', ] @@ -34,38 +34,26 @@ http://quotes.toscrape.com, following the pagination:: def parse(self, response): for quote in response.css('div.quote'): yield { - 'text': quote.css('span.text::text').extract_first(), - 'author': quote.xpath('span/small/text()').extract_first(), + 'author': quote.xpath('span/small/text()').get(), + 'text': quote.css('span.text::text').get(), } - next_page = response.css('li.next a::attr("href")').extract_first() + next_page = response.css('li.next a::attr("href")').get() if next_page is not None: yield response.follow(next_page, self.parse) - Put this in a text file, name it to something like ``quotes_spider.py`` and run the spider using the :command:`runspider` command:: - scrapy runspider quotes_spider.py -o quotes.json + scrapy runspider quotes_spider.py -o quotes.jl +When this finishes you will have in the ``quotes.jl`` file a list of the +quotes in JSON Lines format, containing text and author, looking like this:: -When this finishes you will have in the ``quotes.json`` file a list of the -quotes in JSON format, containing text and author, looking like this (reformatted -here for better readability):: - - [{ - "author": "Jane Austen", - "text": "\u201cThe person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.\u201d" - }, - { - "author": "Groucho Marx", - "text": "\u201cOutside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.\u201d" - }, - { - "author": "Steve Martin", - "text": "\u201cA day without sunshine is like, you know, night.\u201d" - }, - ...] + {"author": "Jane Austen", "text": "\u201cThe person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.\u201d"} + {"author": "Steve Martin", "text": "\u201cA day without sunshine is like, you know, night.\u201d"} + {"author": "Garrison Keillor", "text": "\u201cAnyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.\u201d"} + ... What just happened? diff --git a/docs/intro/tutorial.rst b/docs/intro/tutorial.rst index 20538e90f..ca5856881 100644 --- a/docs/intro/tutorial.rst +++ b/docs/intro/tutorial.rst @@ -22,19 +22,27 @@ Scrapy is written in Python_. If you're new to the language you might want to start by getting an idea of what the language is like, to get the most out of Scrapy. -If you're already familiar with other languages, and want to learn Python -quickly, we recommend reading through `Dive Into Python 3`_. Alternatively, -you can follow the `Python Tutorial`_. +If you're already familiar with other languages, and want to learn Python quickly, the `Python Tutorial`_ is a good resource. -If you're new to programming and want to start with Python, you may find useful -the online book `Learn Python The Hard Way`_. You can also take a look at `this -list of Python resources for non-programmers`_. +If you're new to programming and want to start with Python, the following books +may be useful to you: + +* `Automate the Boring Stuff With Python`_ + +* `How To Think Like a Computer Scientist`_ + +* `Learn Python 3 The Hard Way`_ + +You can also take a look at `this list of Python resources for non-programmers`_, +as well as the `suggested resources in the learnpython-subreddit`_. .. _Python: https://www.python.org/ .. _this list of Python resources for non-programmers: https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers -.. _Dive Into Python 3: http://www.diveintopython3.net .. _Python Tutorial: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial -.. _Learn Python The Hard Way: https://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ +.. _Automate the Boring Stuff With Python: https://automatetheboringstuff.com/ +.. _How To Think Like a Computer Scientist: http://openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english3e/ +.. _Learn Python 3 The Hard Way: https://learnpythonthehardway.org/python3/ +.. _suggested resources in the learnpython-subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/wiki/index#wiki_new_to_python.3F Creating a project @@ -54,7 +62,7 @@ This will create a ``tutorial`` directory with the following contents:: __init__.py items.py # project items definition file - + middlewares.py # project middlewares file pipelines.py # project pipelines file @@ -70,9 +78,9 @@ Our first Spider Spiders are classes that you define and that Scrapy uses to scrape information from a website (or a group of websites). They must subclass -:class:`scrapy.Spider` and define the initial requests to make, optionally how -to follow links in the pages, and how to parse the downloaded page content to -extract data. +:class:`~scrapy.Spider` and define the initial requests to make, +optionally how to follow links in the pages, and how to parse the downloaded +page content to extract data. This is the code for our first Spider. Save it in a file named ``quotes_spider.py`` under the ``tutorial/spiders`` directory in your project:: @@ -93,32 +101,32 @@ This is the code for our first Spider. Save it in a file named def parse(self, response): page = response.url.split("/")[-2] - filename = 'quotes-%s.html' % page + filename = f'quotes-{page}.html' with open(filename, 'wb') as f: f.write(response.body) - self.log('Saved file %s' % filename) + self.log(f'Saved file {filename}') -As you can see, our Spider subclasses :class:`scrapy.Spider ` +As you can see, our Spider subclasses :class:`scrapy.Spider ` and defines some attributes and methods: -* :attr:`~scrapy.spiders.Spider.name`: identifies the Spider. It must be +* :attr:`~scrapy.Spider.name`: identifies the Spider. It must be unique within a project, that is, you can't set the same name for different Spiders. -* :meth:`~scrapy.spiders.Spider.start_requests`: must return an iterable of +* :meth:`~scrapy.Spider.start_requests`: must return an iterable of Requests (you can return a list of requests or write a generator function) which the Spider will begin to crawl from. Subsequent requests will be generated successively from these initial requests. -* :meth:`~scrapy.spiders.Spider.parse`: a method that will be called to handle +* :meth:`~scrapy.Spider.parse`: a method that will be called to handle the response downloaded for each of the requests made. The response parameter is an instance of :class:`~scrapy.http.TextResponse` that holds the page content and has further helpful methods to handle it. - The :meth:`~scrapy.spiders.Spider.parse` method usually parses the response, extracting + The :meth:`~scrapy.Spider.parse` method usually parses the response, extracting the scraped data as dicts and also finding new URLs to - follow and creating new requests (:class:`~scrapy.http.Request`) from them. + follow and creating new requests (:class:`~scrapy.Request`) from them. How to run our spider --------------------- @@ -154,7 +162,7 @@ for the respective URLs, as our ``parse`` method instructs. What just happened under the hood? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -Scrapy schedules the :class:`scrapy.Request ` objects +Scrapy schedules the :class:`scrapy.Request ` objects returned by the ``start_requests`` method of the Spider. Upon receiving a response for each one, it instantiates :class:`~scrapy.http.Response` objects and calls the callback method associated with the request (in this case, the @@ -163,11 +171,11 @@ and calls the callback method associated with the request (in this case, the A shortcut to the start_requests method --------------------------------------- -Instead of implementing a :meth:`~scrapy.spiders.Spider.start_requests` method -that generates :class:`scrapy.Request ` objects from URLs, -you can just define a :attr:`~scrapy.spiders.Spider.start_urls` class attribute +Instead of implementing a :meth:`~scrapy.Spider.start_requests` method +that generates :class:`scrapy.Request ` objects from URLs, +you can just define a :attr:`~scrapy.Spider.start_urls` class attribute with a list of URLs. This list will then be used by the default implementation -of :meth:`~scrapy.spiders.Spider.start_requests` to create the initial requests +of :meth:`~scrapy.Spider.start_requests` to create the initial requests for your spider:: import scrapy @@ -182,13 +190,13 @@ for your spider:: def parse(self, response): page = response.url.split("/")[-2] - filename = 'quotes-%s.html' % page + filename = f'quotes-{page}.html' with open(filename, 'wb') as f: f.write(response.body) -The :meth:`~scrapy.spiders.Spider.parse` method will be called to handle each +The :meth:`~scrapy.Spider.parse` method will be called to handle each of the requests for those URLs, even though we haven't explicitly told Scrapy -to do so. This happens because :meth:`~scrapy.spiders.Spider.parse` is Scrapy's +to do so. This happens because :meth:`~scrapy.Spider.parse` is Scrapy's default callback method, which is called for requests without an explicitly assigned callback. @@ -197,14 +205,14 @@ Extracting data --------------- The best way to learn how to extract data with Scrapy is trying selectors -using the shell :ref:`Scrapy shell `. Run:: +using the :ref:`Scrapy shell `. Run:: scrapy shell 'http://quotes.toscrape.com/page/1/' .. note:: Remember to always enclose urls in quotes when running Scrapy shell from - command-line, otherwise urls containing arguments (ie. ``&`` character) + command-line, otherwise urls containing arguments (i.e. ``&`` character) will not work. On Windows, use double quotes instead:: @@ -227,85 +235,98 @@ You will see something like:: [s] shelp() Shell help (print this help) [s] fetch(req_or_url) Fetch request (or URL) and update local objects [s] view(response) View response in a browser - >>> Using the shell, you can try selecting elements using `CSS`_ with the response -object:: +object: - >>> response.css('title') - [] +.. invisible-code-block: python + + response = load_response('http://quotes.toscrape.com/page/1/', 'quotes1.html') + +>>> response.css('title') +[] The result of running ``response.css('title')`` is a list-like object called :class:`~scrapy.selector.SelectorList`, which represents a list of -:class:`~scrapy.selector.Selector` objects that wrap around XML/HTML elements +:class:`~scrapy.Selector` objects that wrap around XML/HTML elements and allow you to run further queries to fine-grain the selection or extract the data. -To extract the text from the title above, you can do:: +To extract the text from the title above, you can do: - >>> response.css('title::text').extract() - ['Quotes to Scrape'] +>>> response.css('title::text').getall() +['Quotes to Scrape'] There are two things to note here: one is that we've added ``::text`` to the CSS query, to mean we want to select only the text elements directly inside ```` element. If we don't specify ``::text``, we'd get the full title -element, including its tags:: +element, including its tags: - >>> response.css('title').extract() - ['<title>Quotes to Scrape'] +>>> response.css('title').getall() +['Quotes to Scrape'] -The other thing is that the result of calling ``.extract()`` is a list, because -we're dealing with an instance of :class:`~scrapy.selector.SelectorList`. When -you know you just want the first result, as in this case, you can do:: +The other thing is that the result of calling ``.getall()`` is a list: it is +possible that a selector returns more than one result, so we extract them all. +When you know you just want the first result, as in this case, you can do: - >>> response.css('title::text').extract_first() - 'Quotes to Scrape' +>>> response.css('title::text').get() +'Quotes to Scrape' -As an alternative, you could've written:: +As an alternative, you could've written: - >>> response.css('title::text')[0].extract() - 'Quotes to Scrape' +>>> response.css('title::text')[0].get() +'Quotes to Scrape' -However, using ``.extract_first()`` avoids an ``IndexError`` and returns -``None`` when it doesn't find any element matching the selection. +Accessing an index on a :class:`~scrapy.selector.SelectorList` instance will +raise an :exc:`IndexError` exception if there are no results:: + + >>> response.css('noelement')[0].get() + Traceback (most recent call last): + ... + IndexError: list index out of range + +You might want to use ``.get()`` directly on the +:class:`~scrapy.selector.SelectorList` instance instead, which returns ``None`` +if there are no results:: + +>>> response.css("noelement").get() There's a lesson here: for most scraping code, you want it to be resilient to errors due to things not being found on a page, so that even if some parts fail to be scraped, you can at least get **some** data. -Besides the :meth:`~scrapy.selector.Selector.extract` and -:meth:`~scrapy.selector.SelectorList.extract_first` methods, you can also use -the :meth:`~scrapy.selector.Selector.re` method to extract using `regular -expressions`:: +Besides the :meth:`~scrapy.selector.SelectorList.getall` and +:meth:`~scrapy.selector.SelectorList.get` methods, you can also use +the :meth:`~scrapy.selector.SelectorList.re` method to extract using +:doc:`regular expressions `: - >>> response.css('title::text').re(r'Quotes.*') - ['Quotes to Scrape'] - >>> response.css('title::text').re(r'Q\w+') - ['Quotes'] - >>> response.css('title::text').re(r'(\w+) to (\w+)') - ['Quotes', 'Scrape'] +>>> response.css('title::text').re(r'Quotes.*') +['Quotes to Scrape'] +>>> response.css('title::text').re(r'Q\w+') +['Quotes'] +>>> response.css('title::text').re(r'(\w+) to (\w+)') +['Quotes', 'Scrape'] In order to find the proper CSS selectors to use, you might find useful opening the response page from the shell in your web browser using ``view(response)``. -You can use your browser developer tools or extensions like Firebug (see -sections about :ref:`topics-firebug` and :ref:`topics-firefox`). +You can use your browser's developer tools to inspect the HTML and come up +with a selector (see :ref:`topics-developer-tools`). `Selector Gadget`_ is also a nice tool to quickly find CSS selector for visually selected elements, which works in many browsers. -.. _regular expressions: https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html -.. _Selector Gadget: http://selectorgadget.com/ +.. _Selector Gadget: https://selectorgadget.com/ XPath: a brief intro ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -Besides `CSS`_, Scrapy selectors also support using `XPath`_ expressions:: +Besides `CSS`_, Scrapy selectors also support using `XPath`_ expressions: - >>> response.xpath('//title') - [] - >>> response.xpath('//title/text()').extract_first() - 'Quotes to Scrape' +>>> response.xpath('//title') +[] +>>> response.xpath('//title/text()').get() +'Quotes to Scrape' XPath expressions are very powerful, and are the foundation of Scrapy Selectors. In fact, CSS selectors are converted to XPath under-the-hood. You @@ -325,7 +346,7 @@ recommend `this tutorial to learn XPath through examples `_, and `this tutorial to learn "how to think in XPath" `_. -.. _XPath: https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath +.. _XPath: https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/all/ .. _CSS: https://www.w3.org/TR/selectors Extracting quotes and authors @@ -360,45 +381,51 @@ we want:: $ scrapy shell 'http://quotes.toscrape.com' -We get a list of selectors for the quote HTML elements with:: +We get a list of selectors for the quote HTML elements with: - >>> response.css("div.quote") +>>> response.css("div.quote") +[, + , + ...] Each of the selectors returned by the query above allows us to run further queries over their sub-elements. Let's assign the first selector to a -variable, so that we can run our CSS selectors directly on a particular quote:: +variable, so that we can run our CSS selectors directly on a particular quote: - >>> quote = response.css("div.quote")[0] +>>> quote = response.css("div.quote")[0] -Now, let's extract ``title``, ``author`` and the ``tags`` from that quote -using the ``quote`` object we just created:: +Now, let's extract ``text``, ``author`` and the ``tags`` from that quote +using the ``quote`` object we just created: - >>> title = quote.css("span.text::text").extract_first() - >>> title - '“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”' - >>> author = quote.css("small.author::text").extract_first() - >>> author - 'Albert Einstein' +>>> text = quote.css("span.text::text").get() +>>> text +'“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”' +>>> author = quote.css("small.author::text").get() +>>> author +'Albert Einstein' -Given that the tags are a list of strings, we can use the ``.extract()`` method -to get all of them:: +Given that the tags are a list of strings, we can use the ``.getall()`` method +to get all of them: - >>> tags = quote.css("div.tags a.tag::text").extract() - >>> tags - ['change', 'deep-thoughts', 'thinking', 'world'] +>>> tags = quote.css("div.tags a.tag::text").getall() +>>> tags +['change', 'deep-thoughts', 'thinking', 'world'] + +.. invisible-code-block: python + + from sys import version_info Having figured out how to extract each bit, we can now iterate over all the -quotes elements and put them together into a Python dictionary:: +quotes elements and put them together into a Python dictionary: - >>> for quote in response.css("div.quote"): - ... text = quote.css("span.text::text").extract_first() - ... author = quote.css("small.author::text").extract_first() - ... tags = quote.css("div.tags a.tag::text").extract() - ... print(dict(text=text, author=author, tags=tags)) - {'tags': ['change', 'deep-thoughts', 'thinking', 'world'], 'author': 'Albert Einstein', 'text': '“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”'} - {'tags': ['abilities', 'choices'], 'author': 'J.K. Rowling', 'text': '“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”'} - ... a few more of these, omitted for brevity - >>> +>>> for quote in response.css("div.quote"): +... text = quote.css("span.text::text").get() +... author = quote.css("small.author::text").get() +... tags = quote.css("div.tags a.tag::text").getall() +... print(dict(text=text, author=author, tags=tags)) +{'text': '“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”', 'author': 'Albert Einstein', 'tags': ['change', 'deep-thoughts', 'thinking', 'world']} +{'text': '“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”', 'author': 'J.K. Rowling', 'tags': ['abilities', 'choices']} +... Extracting data in our spider ----------------------------- @@ -424,9 +451,9 @@ in the callback, as you can see below:: def parse(self, response): for quote in response.css('div.quote'): yield { - 'text': quote.css('span.text::text').extract_first(), - 'author': quote.css('small.author::text').extract_first(), - 'tags': quote.css('div.tags a.tag::text').extract(), + 'text': quote.css('span.text::text').get(), + 'author': quote.css('small.author::text').get(), + 'tags': quote.css('div.tags a.tag::text').getall(), } If you run this spider, it will output the extracted data with the log:: @@ -445,16 +472,15 @@ Storing the scraped data The simplest way to store the scraped data is by using :ref:`Feed exports `, with the following command:: - scrapy crawl quotes -o quotes.json + scrapy crawl quotes -O quotes.json -That will generate an ``quotes.json`` file containing all scraped items, +That will generate a ``quotes.json`` file containing all scraped items, serialized in `JSON`_. -For historic reasons, Scrapy appends to a given file instead of overwriting -its contents. If you run this command twice without removing the file -before the second time, you'll end up with a broken JSON file. - -You can also use other formats, like `JSON Lines`_:: +The ``-O`` command-line switch overwrites any existing file; use ``-o`` instead +to append new content to any existing file. However, appending to a JSON file +makes the file contents invalid JSON. When appending to a file, consider +using a different serialization format, such as `JSON Lines`_:: scrapy crawl quotes -o quotes.jl @@ -496,17 +522,23 @@ markup: -We can try extracting it in the shell:: +We can try extracting it in the shell: - >>> response.css('li.next a').extract_first() - 'Next ' +>>> response.css('li.next a').get() +'Next ' This gets the anchor element, but we want the attribute ``href``. For that, -Scrapy supports a CSS extension that let's you select the attribute contents, -like this:: +Scrapy supports a CSS extension that lets you select the attribute contents, +like this: - >>> response.css('li.next a::attr(href)').extract_first() - '/page/2/' +>>> response.css('li.next a::attr(href)').get() +'/page/2/' + +There is also an ``attrib`` property available +(see :ref:`selecting-attributes` for more): + +>>> response.css('li.next a').attrib['href'] +'/page/2/' Let's see now our spider modified to recursively follow the link to the next page, extracting data from it:: @@ -523,12 +555,12 @@ page, extracting data from it:: def parse(self, response): for quote in response.css('div.quote'): yield { - 'text': quote.css('span.text::text').extract_first(), - 'author': quote.css('small.author::text').extract_first(), - 'tags': quote.css('div.tags a.tag::text').extract(), + '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)').extract_first() + 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) @@ -574,12 +606,12 @@ As a shortcut for creating Request objects you can use def parse(self, response): for quote in response.css('div.quote'): yield { - 'text': quote.css('span.text::text').extract_first(), - 'author': quote.css('span small::text').extract_first(), - 'tags': quote.css('div.tags a.tag::text').extract(), + 'text': quote.css('span.text::text').get(), + 'author': quote.css('span small::text').get(), + 'tags': quote.css('div.tags a.tag::text').getall(), } - next_page = response.css('li.next a::attr(href)').extract_first() + next_page = response.css('li.next a::attr(href)').get() if next_page is not None: yield response.follow(next_page, callback=self.parse) @@ -590,21 +622,25 @@ instance; you still have to yield this Request. You can also pass a selector to ``response.follow`` instead of a string; this selector should extract necessary attributes:: - for href in response.css('li.next a::attr(href)'): + for href in response.css('ul.pager a::attr(href)'): yield response.follow(href, callback=self.parse) For ```` elements there is a shortcut: ``response.follow`` uses their href attribute automatically. So the code can be shortened further:: - for a in response.css('li.next a'): + for a in response.css('ul.pager a'): yield response.follow(a, callback=self.parse) -.. note:: +To create multiple requests from an iterable, you can use +:meth:`response.follow_all ` instead:: + + anchors = response.css('ul.pager a') + yield from response.follow_all(anchors, callback=self.parse) + +or, shortening it further:: + + yield from response.follow_all(css='ul.pager a', callback=self.parse) - ``response.follow(response.css('li.next a'))`` is not valid because - ``response.css`` returns a list-like object with selectors for all results, - not a single selector. A ``for`` loop like in the example above, or - ``response.follow(response.css('li.next a')[0])`` is fine. More examples and patterns -------------------------- @@ -621,17 +657,15 @@ this time for scraping author information:: start_urls = ['http://quotes.toscrape.com/'] def parse(self, response): - # follow links to author pages - for href in response.css('.author + a::attr(href)'): - yield response.follow(href, self.parse_author) + author_page_links = response.css('.author + a') + yield from response.follow_all(author_page_links, self.parse_author) - # follow pagination links - for href in response.css('li.next a::attr(href)'): - yield response.follow(href, self.parse) + pagination_links = response.css('li.next a') + yield from response.follow_all(pagination_links, self.parse) def parse_author(self, response): def extract_with_css(query): - return response.css(query).extract_first().strip() + return response.css(query).get(default='').strip() yield { 'name': extract_with_css('h3.author-title::text'), @@ -643,8 +677,10 @@ This spider will start from the main page, it will follow all the links to the authors pages calling the ``parse_author`` callback for each of them, and also the pagination links with the ``parse`` callback as we saw before. -Here we're passing callbacks to ``response.follow`` as positional arguments -to make the code shorter; it also works for ``scrapy.Request``. +Here we're passing callbacks to +:meth:`response.follow_all ` as positional +arguments to make the code shorter; it also works for +:class:`~scrapy.Request`. The ``parse_author`` callback defines a helper function to extract and cleanup the data from a CSS query and yields the Python dict with the author data. @@ -675,7 +711,7 @@ Using spider arguments You can provide command line arguments to your spiders by using the ``-a`` option when running them:: - scrapy crawl quotes -o quotes-humor.json -a tag=humor + scrapy crawl quotes -O quotes-humor.json -a tag=humor These arguments are passed to the Spider's ``__init__`` method and become spider attributes by default. @@ -700,11 +736,11 @@ with a specific tag, building the URL based on the argument:: def parse(self, response): for quote in response.css('div.quote'): yield { - 'text': quote.css('span.text::text').extract_first(), - 'author': quote.css('small.author::text').extract_first(), + 'text': quote.css('span.text::text').get(), + 'author': quote.css('small.author::text').get(), } - next_page = response.css('li.next a::attr(href)').extract_first() + next_page = response.css('li.next a::attr(href)').get() if next_page is not None: yield response.follow(next_page, self.parse) @@ -728,4 +764,3 @@ modeling the scraped data. If you prefer to play with an example project, check the :ref:`intro-examples` section. .. _JSON: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON -.. _dirbot: https://github.com/scrapy/dirbot diff --git a/docs/news.rst b/docs/news.rst index be4cac3f3..47a808693 100644 --- a/docs/news.rst +++ b/docs/news.rst @@ -1,8 +1,2364 @@ +.. note:: + .. versionchanged:: VERSION + + The Twisted reactor is now installed when + :meth:`~scrapy.crawler.CrawlerProcess.crawl` is first called, not when a + :class:`scrapy.crawler.CrawlerProcess` object is created. Because of this, + :setting:`TWISTED_REACTOR` and :setting:`ASYNCIO_EVENT_LOOP` are now + honored in :attr:`~scrapy.Spider.custom_settings`. In older Scrapy versions + they are silently ignored when set there and you need to set these settings + in some other way. + + +.. note:: + .. versionchanged:: VERSION + + Previously this setting had no effect in a spider + :attr:`~scrapy.Spider.custom_settings` attribute. Now it will be used, but + if you :ref:`run several spiders in one process `, + they must not have different values for this setting, because they will use + a single reactor instance. + + .. _news: Release notes ============= +.. _release-2.5.1: + +Scrapy 2.5.1 (2021-10-05) +------------------------- + +* **Security bug fix:** + + If you use + :class:`~scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpauth.HttpAuthMiddleware` + (i.e. the ``http_user`` and ``http_pass`` spider attributes) for HTTP + authentication, any request exposes your credentials to the request target. + + To prevent unintended exposure of authentication credentials to unintended + domains, you must now additionally set a new, additional spider attribute, + ``http_auth_domain``, and point it to the specific domain to which the + authentication credentials must be sent. + + If the ``http_auth_domain`` spider attribute is not set, the domain of the + first request will be considered the HTTP authentication target, and + authentication credentials will only be sent in requests targeting that + domain. + + If you need to send the same HTTP authentication credentials to multiple + domains, you can use :func:`w3lib.http.basic_auth_header` instead to + set the value of the ``Authorization`` header of your requests. + + If you *really* want your spider to send the same HTTP authentication + credentials to any domain, set the ``http_auth_domain`` spider attribute + to ``None``. + + Finally, if you are a user of `scrapy-splash`_, know that this version of + Scrapy breaks compatibility with scrapy-splash 0.7.2 and earlier. You will + need to upgrade scrapy-splash to a greater version for it to continue to + work. + +.. _scrapy-splash: https://github.com/scrapy-plugins/scrapy-splash + + +.. _release-2.5.0: + +Scrapy 2.5.0 (2021-04-06) +------------------------- + +Highlights: + +- Official Python 3.9 support + +- Experimental :ref:`HTTP/2 support ` + +- New :func:`~scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.retry.get_retry_request` function + to retry requests from spider callbacks + +- New :class:`~scrapy.signals.headers_received` signal that allows stopping + downloads early + +- New :class:`Response.protocol ` attribute + +Deprecation removals +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- Removed all code that :ref:`was deprecated in 1.7.0 <1.7-deprecations>` and + had not :ref:`already been removed in 2.4.0 <2.4-deprecation-removals>`. + (:issue:`4901`) + +- Removed support for the ``SCRAPY_PICKLED_SETTINGS_TO_OVERRIDE`` environment + variable, :ref:`deprecated in 1.8.0 <1.8-deprecations>`. (:issue:`4912`) + + +Deprecations +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- The :mod:`scrapy.utils.py36` module is now deprecated in favor of + :mod:`scrapy.utils.asyncgen`. (:issue:`4900`) + + +New features +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- Experimental :ref:`HTTP/2 support ` through a new download handler + that can be assigned to the ``https`` protocol in the + :setting:`DOWNLOAD_HANDLERS` setting. + (:issue:`1854`, :issue:`4769`, :issue:`5058`, :issue:`5059`, :issue:`5066`) + +- The new :func:`scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.retry.get_retry_request` + function may be used from spider callbacks or middlewares to handle the + retrying of a request beyond the scenarios that + :class:`~scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.retry.RetryMiddleware` supports. + (:issue:`3590`, :issue:`3685`, :issue:`4902`) + +- The new :class:`~scrapy.signals.headers_received` signal gives early access + to response headers and allows :ref:`stopping downloads + `. + (:issue:`1772`, :issue:`4897`) + +- The new :attr:`Response.protocol ` + attribute gives access to the string that identifies the protocol used to + download a response. (:issue:`4878`) + +- :ref:`Stats ` now include the following entries that indicate + the number of successes and failures in storing + :ref:`feeds `:: + + feedexport/success_count/ + feedexport/failed_count/ + + Where ```` is the feed storage backend class name, such as + :class:`~scrapy.extensions.feedexport.FileFeedStorage` or + :class:`~scrapy.extensions.feedexport.FTPFeedStorage`. + + (:issue:`3947`, :issue:`4850`) + +- The :class:`~scrapy.spidermiddlewares.urllength.UrlLengthMiddleware` spider + middleware now logs ignored URLs with ``INFO`` :ref:`logging level + ` instead of ``DEBUG``, and it now includes the following entry + into :ref:`stats ` to keep track of the number of ignored + URLs:: + + urllength/request_ignored_count + + (:issue:`5036`) + +- The + :class:`~scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpcompression.HttpCompressionMiddleware` + downloader middleware now logs the number of decompressed responses and the + total count of resulting bytes:: + + httpcompression/response_bytes + httpcompression/response_count + + (:issue:`4797`, :issue:`4799`) + + +Bug fixes +~~~~~~~~~ + +- Fixed installation on PyPy installing PyDispatcher in addition to + PyPyDispatcher, which could prevent Scrapy from working depending on which + package got imported. (:issue:`4710`, :issue:`4814`) + +- When inspecting a callback to check if it is a generator that also returns + a value, an exception is no longer raised if the callback has a docstring + with lower indentation than the following code. + (:issue:`4477`, :issue:`4935`) + +- The `Content-Length `_ + header is no longer omitted from responses when using the default, HTTP/1.1 + download handler (see :setting:`DOWNLOAD_HANDLERS`). + (:issue:`5009`, :issue:`5034`, :issue:`5045`, :issue:`5057`, :issue:`5062`) + +- Setting the :reqmeta:`handle_httpstatus_all` request meta key to ``False`` + now has the same effect as not setting it at all, instead of having the + same effect as setting it to ``True``. + (:issue:`3851`, :issue:`4694`) + + +Documentation +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- Added instructions to :ref:`install Scrapy in Windows using pip + `. + (:issue:`4715`, :issue:`4736`) + +- Logging documentation now includes :ref:`additional ways to filter logs + `. + (:issue:`4216`, :issue:`4257`, :issue:`4965`) + +- Covered how to deal with long lists of allowed domains in the :ref:`FAQ + `. (:issue:`2263`, :issue:`3667`) + +- Covered scrapy-bench_ in :ref:`benchmarking`. + (:issue:`4996`, :issue:`5016`) + +- Clarified that one :ref:`extension ` instance is created + per crawler. + (:issue:`5014`) + +- Fixed some errors in examples. + (:issue:`4829`, :issue:`4830`, :issue:`4907`, :issue:`4909`, + :issue:`5008`) + +- Fixed some external links, typos, and so on. + (:issue:`4892`, :issue:`4899`, :issue:`4936`, :issue:`4942`, :issue:`5005`, + :issue:`5063`) + +- The :ref:`list of Request.meta keys ` is now sorted + alphabetically. + (:issue:`5061`, :issue:`5065`) + +- Updated references to Scrapinghub, which is now called Zyte. + (:issue:`4973`, :issue:`5072`) + +- Added a mention to contributors in the README. (:issue:`4956`) + +- Reduced the top margin of lists. (:issue:`4974`) + + +Quality Assurance +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- Made Python 3.9 support official (:issue:`4757`, :issue:`4759`) + +- Extended typing hints (:issue:`4895`) + +- Fixed deprecated uses of the Twisted API. + (:issue:`4940`, :issue:`4950`, :issue:`5073`) + +- Made our tests run with the new pip resolver. + (:issue:`4710`, :issue:`4814`) + +- Added tests to ensure that :ref:`coroutine support ` + is tested. (:issue:`4987`) + +- Migrated from Travis CI to GitHub Actions. (:issue:`4924`) + +- Fixed CI issues. + (:issue:`4986`, :issue:`5020`, :issue:`5022`, :issue:`5027`, :issue:`5052`, + :issue:`5053`) + +- Implemented code refactorings, style fixes and cleanups. + (:issue:`4911`, :issue:`4982`, :issue:`5001`, :issue:`5002`, :issue:`5076`) + + +.. _release-2.4.1: + +Scrapy 2.4.1 (2020-11-17) +------------------------- + +- Fixed :ref:`feed exports ` overwrite support (:issue:`4845`, :issue:`4857`, :issue:`4859`) + +- Fixed the AsyncIO event loop handling, which could make code hang + (:issue:`4855`, :issue:`4872`) + +- Fixed the IPv6-capable DNS resolver + :class:`~scrapy.resolver.CachingHostnameResolver` for download handlers + that call + :meth:`reactor.resolve ` + (:issue:`4802`, :issue:`4803`) + +- Fixed the output of the :command:`genspider` command showing placeholders + instead of the import path of the generated spider module (:issue:`4874`) + +- Migrated Windows CI from Azure Pipelines to GitHub Actions (:issue:`4869`, + :issue:`4876`) + + +.. _release-2.4.0: + +Scrapy 2.4.0 (2020-10-11) +------------------------- + +Highlights: + +* Python 3.5 support has been dropped. + +* The ``file_path`` method of :ref:`media pipelines ` + can now access the source :ref:`item `. + + This allows you to set a download file path based on item data. + +* The new ``item_export_kwargs`` key of the :setting:`FEEDS` setting allows + to define keyword parameters to pass to :ref:`item exporter classes + ` + +* You can now choose whether :ref:`feed exports ` + overwrite or append to the output file. + + For example, when using the :command:`crawl` or :command:`runspider` + commands, you can use the ``-O`` option instead of ``-o`` to overwrite the + output file. + +* Zstd-compressed responses are now supported if zstandard_ is installed. + +* In settings, where the import path of a class is required, it is now + possible to pass a class object instead. + +Modified requirements +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* Python 3.6 or greater is now required; support for Python 3.5 has been + dropped + + As a result: + + - When using PyPy, PyPy 7.2.0 or greater :ref:`is now required + ` + + - For Amazon S3 storage support in :ref:`feed exports + ` or :ref:`media pipelines + `, botocore_ 1.4.87 or greater is now required + + - To use the :ref:`images pipeline `, Pillow_ 4.0.0 or + greater is now required + + (:issue:`4718`, :issue:`4732`, :issue:`4733`, :issue:`4742`, :issue:`4743`, + :issue:`4764`) + + +Backward-incompatible changes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* :class:`~scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.cookies.CookiesMiddleware` once again + discards cookies defined in :attr:`Request.headers + `. + + We decided to revert this bug fix, introduced in Scrapy 2.2.0, because it + was reported that the current implementation could break existing code. + + If you need to set cookies for a request, use the :class:`Request.cookies + ` parameter. + + A future version of Scrapy will include a new, better implementation of the + reverted bug fix. + + (:issue:`4717`, :issue:`4823`) + + +.. _2.4-deprecation-removals: + +Deprecation removals +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* :class:`scrapy.extensions.feedexport.S3FeedStorage` no longer reads the + values of ``access_key`` and ``secret_key`` from the running project + settings when they are not passed to its ``__init__`` method; you must + either pass those parameters to its ``__init__`` method or use + :class:`S3FeedStorage.from_crawler + ` + (:issue:`4356`, :issue:`4411`, :issue:`4688`) + +* :attr:`Rule.process_request ` + no longer admits callables which expect a single ``request`` parameter, + rather than both ``request`` and ``response`` (:issue:`4818`) + + +Deprecations +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* In custom :ref:`media pipelines `, signatures that + do not accept a keyword-only ``item`` parameter in any of the methods that + :ref:`now support this parameter ` are now + deprecated (:issue:`4628`, :issue:`4686`) + +* In custom :ref:`feed storage backend classes `, + ``__init__`` method signatures that do not accept a keyword-only + ``feed_options`` parameter are now deprecated (:issue:`547`, :issue:`716`, + :issue:`4512`) + +* The :class:`scrapy.utils.python.WeakKeyCache` class is now deprecated + (:issue:`4684`, :issue:`4701`) + +* The :func:`scrapy.utils.boto.is_botocore` function is now deprecated, use + :func:`scrapy.utils.boto.is_botocore_available` instead (:issue:`4734`, + :issue:`4776`) + + +New features +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +.. _media-pipeline-item-parameter: + +* The following methods of :ref:`media pipelines ` now + accept an ``item`` keyword-only parameter containing the source + :ref:`item `: + + - In :class:`scrapy.pipelines.files.FilesPipeline`: + + - :meth:`~scrapy.pipelines.files.FilesPipeline.file_downloaded` + + - :meth:`~scrapy.pipelines.files.FilesPipeline.file_path` + + - :meth:`~scrapy.pipelines.files.FilesPipeline.media_downloaded` + + - :meth:`~scrapy.pipelines.files.FilesPipeline.media_to_download` + + - In :class:`scrapy.pipelines.images.ImagesPipeline`: + + - :meth:`~scrapy.pipelines.images.ImagesPipeline.file_downloaded` + + - :meth:`~scrapy.pipelines.images.ImagesPipeline.file_path` + + - :meth:`~scrapy.pipelines.images.ImagesPipeline.get_images` + + - :meth:`~scrapy.pipelines.images.ImagesPipeline.image_downloaded` + + - :meth:`~scrapy.pipelines.images.ImagesPipeline.media_downloaded` + + - :meth:`~scrapy.pipelines.images.ImagesPipeline.media_to_download` + + (:issue:`4628`, :issue:`4686`) + +* The new ``item_export_kwargs`` key of the :setting:`FEEDS` setting allows + to define keyword parameters to pass to :ref:`item exporter classes + ` (:issue:`4606`, :issue:`4768`) + +* :ref:`Feed exports ` gained overwrite support: + + * When using the :command:`crawl` or :command:`runspider` commands, you + can use the ``-O`` option instead of ``-o`` to overwrite the output + file + + * You can use the ``overwrite`` key in the :setting:`FEEDS` setting to + configure whether to overwrite the output file (``True``) or append to + its content (``False``) + + * The ``__init__`` and ``from_crawler`` methods of :ref:`feed storage + backend classes ` now receive a new keyword-only + parameter, ``feed_options``, which is a dictionary of :ref:`feed + options ` + + (:issue:`547`, :issue:`716`, :issue:`4512`) + +* Zstd-compressed responses are now supported if zstandard_ is installed + (:issue:`4831`) + +* In settings, where the import path of a class is required, it is now + possible to pass a class object instead (:issue:`3870`, :issue:`3873`). + + This includes also settings where only part of its value is made of an + import path, such as :setting:`DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES` or + :setting:`DOWNLOAD_HANDLERS`. + +* :ref:`Downloader middlewares ` can now + override :class:`response.request `. + + If a :ref:`downloader middleware ` returns + a :class:`~scrapy.http.Response` object from + :meth:`~scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.DownloaderMiddleware.process_response` + or + :meth:`~scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.DownloaderMiddleware.process_exception` + with a custom :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` object assigned to + :class:`response.request `: + + - The response is handled by the callback of that custom + :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` object, instead of being handled by the + callback of the original :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` object + + - That custom :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` object is now sent as the + ``request`` argument to the :signal:`response_received` signal, instead + of the original :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` object + + (:issue:`4529`, :issue:`4632`) + +* When using the :ref:`FTP feed storage backend `: + + - It is now possible to set the new ``overwrite`` :ref:`feed option + ` to ``False`` to append to an existing file instead of + overwriting it + + - The FTP password can now be omitted if it is not necessary + + (:issue:`547`, :issue:`716`, :issue:`4512`) + +* The ``__init__`` method of :class:`~scrapy.exporters.CsvItemExporter` now + supports an ``errors`` parameter to indicate how to handle encoding errors + (:issue:`4755`) + +* When :ref:`using asyncio `, it is now possible to + :ref:`set a custom asyncio loop ` (:issue:`4306`, + :issue:`4414`) + +* Serialized requests (see :ref:`topics-jobs`) now support callbacks that are + spider methods that delegate on other callable (:issue:`4756`) + +* When a response is larger than :setting:`DOWNLOAD_MAXSIZE`, the logged + message is now a warning, instead of an error (:issue:`3874`, + :issue:`3886`, :issue:`4752`) + + +Bug fixes +~~~~~~~~~ + +* The :command:`genspider` command no longer overwrites existing files + unless the ``--force`` option is used (:issue:`4561`, :issue:`4616`, + :issue:`4623`) + +* Cookies with an empty value are no longer considered invalid cookies + (:issue:`4772`) + +* The :command:`runspider` command now supports files with the ``.pyw`` file + extension (:issue:`4643`, :issue:`4646`) + +* The :class:`~scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpproxy.HttpProxyMiddleware` + middleware now simply ignores unsupported proxy values (:issue:`3331`, + :issue:`4778`) + +* Checks for generator callbacks with a ``return`` statement no longer warn + about ``return`` statements in nested functions (:issue:`4720`, + :issue:`4721`) + +* The system file mode creation mask no longer affects the permissions of + files generated using the :command:`startproject` command (:issue:`4722`) + +* :func:`scrapy.utils.iterators.xmliter` now supports namespaced node names + (:issue:`861`, :issue:`4746`) + +* :class:`~scrapy.Request` objects can now have ``about:`` URLs, which can + work when using a headless browser (:issue:`4835`) + + +Documentation +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* The :setting:`FEED_URI_PARAMS` setting is now documented (:issue:`4671`, + :issue:`4724`) + +* Improved the documentation of + :ref:`link extractors ` with an usage example from + a spider callback and reference documentation for the + :class:`~scrapy.link.Link` class (:issue:`4751`, :issue:`4775`) + +* Clarified the impact of :setting:`CONCURRENT_REQUESTS` when using the + :class:`~scrapy.extensions.closespider.CloseSpider` extension + (:issue:`4836`) + +* Removed references to Python 2’s ``unicode`` type (:issue:`4547`, + :issue:`4703`) + +* We now have an :ref:`official deprecation policy ` + (:issue:`4705`) + +* Our :ref:`documentation policies ` now cover usage + of Sphinx’s :rst:dir:`versionadded` and :rst:dir:`versionchanged` + directives, and we have removed usages referencing Scrapy 1.4.0 and earlier + versions (:issue:`3971`, :issue:`4310`) + +* Other documentation cleanups (:issue:`4090`, :issue:`4782`, :issue:`4800`, + :issue:`4801`, :issue:`4809`, :issue:`4816`, :issue:`4825`) + + +Quality assurance +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* Extended typing hints (:issue:`4243`, :issue:`4691`) + +* Added tests for the :command:`check` command (:issue:`4663`) + +* Fixed test failures on Debian (:issue:`4726`, :issue:`4727`, :issue:`4735`) + +* Improved Windows test coverage (:issue:`4723`) + +* Switched to :ref:`formatted string literals ` where possible + (:issue:`4307`, :issue:`4324`, :issue:`4672`) + +* Modernized :func:`super` usage (:issue:`4707`) + +* Other code and test cleanups (:issue:`1790`, :issue:`3288`, :issue:`4165`, + :issue:`4564`, :issue:`4651`, :issue:`4714`, :issue:`4738`, :issue:`4745`, + :issue:`4747`, :issue:`4761`, :issue:`4765`, :issue:`4804`, :issue:`4817`, + :issue:`4820`, :issue:`4822`, :issue:`4839`) + + +.. _release-2.3.0: + +Scrapy 2.3.0 (2020-08-04) +------------------------- + +Highlights: + +* :ref:`Feed exports ` now support :ref:`Google Cloud + Storage ` as a storage backend + +* The new :setting:`FEED_EXPORT_BATCH_ITEM_COUNT` setting allows to deliver + output items in batches of up to the specified number of items. + + It also serves as a workaround for :ref:`delayed file delivery + `, which causes Scrapy to only start item delivery + after the crawl has finished when using certain storage backends + (:ref:`S3 `, :ref:`FTP `, + and now :ref:`GCS `). + +* The base implementation of :ref:`item loaders ` has been + moved into a separate library, :doc:`itemloaders `, + allowing usage from outside Scrapy and a separate release schedule + +Deprecation removals +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* Removed the following classes and their parent modules from + ``scrapy.linkextractors``: + + * ``htmlparser.HtmlParserLinkExtractor`` + * ``regex.RegexLinkExtractor`` + * ``sgml.BaseSgmlLinkExtractor`` + * ``sgml.SgmlLinkExtractor`` + + Use + :class:`LinkExtractor ` + instead (:issue:`4356`, :issue:`4679`) + + +Deprecations +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* The ``scrapy.utils.python.retry_on_eintr`` function is now deprecated + (:issue:`4683`) + + +New features +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* :ref:`Feed exports ` support :ref:`Google Cloud + Storage ` (:issue:`685`, :issue:`3608`) + +* New :setting:`FEED_EXPORT_BATCH_ITEM_COUNT` setting for batch deliveries + (:issue:`4250`, :issue:`4434`) + +* The :command:`parse` command now allows specifying an output file + (:issue:`4317`, :issue:`4377`) + +* :meth:`Request.from_curl ` and + :func:`~scrapy.utils.curl.curl_to_request_kwargs` now also support + ``--data-raw`` (:issue:`4612`) + +* A ``parse`` callback may now be used in built-in spider subclasses, such + as :class:`~scrapy.spiders.CrawlSpider` (:issue:`712`, :issue:`732`, + :issue:`781`, :issue:`4254` ) + + +Bug fixes +~~~~~~~~~ + +* Fixed the :ref:`CSV exporting ` of + :ref:`dataclass items ` and :ref:`attr.s items + ` (:issue:`4667`, :issue:`4668`) + +* :meth:`Request.from_curl ` and + :func:`~scrapy.utils.curl.curl_to_request_kwargs` now set the request + method to ``POST`` when a request body is specified and no request method + is specified (:issue:`4612`) + +* The processing of ANSI escape sequences in enabled in Windows 10.0.14393 + and later, where it is required for colored output (:issue:`4393`, + :issue:`4403`) + + +Documentation +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* Updated the `OpenSSL cipher list format`_ link in the documentation about + the :setting:`DOWNLOADER_CLIENT_TLS_CIPHERS` setting (:issue:`4653`) + +* Simplified the code example in :ref:`topics-loaders-dataclass` + (:issue:`4652`) + +.. _OpenSSL cipher list format: https://www.openssl.org/docs/manmaster/man1/openssl-ciphers.html#CIPHER-LIST-FORMAT + + +Quality assurance +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* The base implementation of :ref:`item loaders ` has been + moved into :doc:`itemloaders ` (:issue:`4005`, + :issue:`4516`) + +* Fixed a silenced error in some scheduler tests (:issue:`4644`, + :issue:`4645`) + +* Renewed the localhost certificate used for SSL tests (:issue:`4650`) + +* Removed cookie-handling code specific to Python 2 (:issue:`4682`) + +* Stopped using Python 2 unicode literal syntax (:issue:`4704`) + +* Stopped using a backlash for line continuation (:issue:`4673`) + +* Removed unneeded entries from the MyPy exception list (:issue:`4690`) + +* Automated tests now pass on Windows as part of our continuous integration + system (:issue:`4458`) + +* Automated tests now pass on the latest PyPy version for supported Python + versions in our continuous integration system (:issue:`4504`) + + +.. _release-2.2.1: + +Scrapy 2.2.1 (2020-07-17) +------------------------- + +* The :command:`startproject` command no longer makes unintended changes to + the permissions of files in the destination folder, such as removing + execution permissions (:issue:`4662`, :issue:`4666`) + + +.. _release-2.2.0: + +Scrapy 2.2.0 (2020-06-24) +------------------------- + +Highlights: + +* Python 3.5.2+ is required now +* :ref:`dataclass objects ` and + :ref:`attrs objects ` are now valid :ref:`item types + ` +* New :meth:`TextResponse.json ` method +* New :signal:`bytes_received` signal that allows canceling response download +* :class:`~scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.cookies.CookiesMiddleware` fixes + +Backward-incompatible changes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* Support for Python 3.5.0 and 3.5.1 has been dropped; Scrapy now refuses to + run with a Python version lower than 3.5.2, which introduced + :class:`typing.Type` (:issue:`4615`) + + +Deprecations +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* :meth:`TextResponse.body_as_unicode + ` is now deprecated, use + :attr:`TextResponse.text ` instead + (:issue:`4546`, :issue:`4555`, :issue:`4579`) + +* :class:`scrapy.item.BaseItem` is now deprecated, use + :class:`scrapy.item.Item` instead (:issue:`4534`) + + +New features +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* :ref:`dataclass objects ` and + :ref:`attrs objects ` are now valid :ref:`item types + `, and a new itemadapter_ library makes it easy to + write code that :ref:`supports any item type ` + (:issue:`2749`, :issue:`2807`, :issue:`3761`, :issue:`3881`, :issue:`4642`) + +* A new :meth:`TextResponse.json ` method + allows to deserialize JSON responses (:issue:`2444`, :issue:`4460`, + :issue:`4574`) + +* A new :signal:`bytes_received` signal allows monitoring response download + progress and :ref:`stopping downloads ` + (:issue:`4205`, :issue:`4559`) + +* The dictionaries in the result list of a :ref:`media pipeline + ` now include a new key, ``status``, which indicates + if the file was downloaded or, if the file was not downloaded, why it was + not downloaded; see :meth:`FilesPipeline.get_media_requests + ` for more + information (:issue:`2893`, :issue:`4486`) + +* When using :ref:`Google Cloud Storage ` for + a :ref:`media pipeline `, a warning is now logged if + the configured credentials do not grant the required permissions + (:issue:`4346`, :issue:`4508`) + +* :ref:`Link extractors ` are now serializable, + as long as you do not use :ref:`lambdas ` for parameters; for + example, you can now pass link extractors in :attr:`Request.cb_kwargs + ` or + :attr:`Request.meta ` when :ref:`persisting + scheduled requests ` (:issue:`4554`) + +* Upgraded the :ref:`pickle protocol ` that Scrapy uses + from protocol 2 to protocol 4, improving serialization capabilities and + performance (:issue:`4135`, :issue:`4541`) + +* :func:`scrapy.utils.misc.create_instance` now raises a :exc:`TypeError` + exception if the resulting instance is ``None`` (:issue:`4528`, + :issue:`4532`) + +.. _itemadapter: https://github.com/scrapy/itemadapter + + +Bug fixes +~~~~~~~~~ + +* :class:`~scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.cookies.CookiesMiddleware` no longer + discards cookies defined in :attr:`Request.headers + ` (:issue:`1992`, :issue:`2400`) + +* :class:`~scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.cookies.CookiesMiddleware` no longer + re-encodes cookies defined as :class:`bytes` in the ``cookies`` parameter + of the ``__init__`` method of :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` + (:issue:`2400`, :issue:`3575`) + +* When :setting:`FEEDS` defines multiple URIs, :setting:`FEED_STORE_EMPTY` is + ``False`` and the crawl yields no items, Scrapy no longer stops feed + exports after the first URI (:issue:`4621`, :issue:`4626`) + +* :class:`~scrapy.spiders.Spider` callbacks defined using :doc:`coroutine + syntax ` no longer need to return an iterable, and may + instead return a :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` object, an + :ref:`item `, or ``None`` (:issue:`4609`) + +* The :command:`startproject` command now ensures that the generated project + folders and files have the right permissions (:issue:`4604`) + +* Fix a :exc:`KeyError` exception being sometimes raised from + :class:`scrapy.utils.datatypes.LocalWeakReferencedCache` (:issue:`4597`, + :issue:`4599`) + +* When :setting:`FEEDS` defines multiple URIs, log messages about items being + stored now contain information from the corresponding feed, instead of + always containing information about only one of the feeds (:issue:`4619`, + :issue:`4629`) + + +Documentation +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* Added a new section about :ref:`accessing cb_kwargs from errbacks + ` (:issue:`4598`, :issue:`4634`) + +* Covered chompjs_ in :ref:`topics-parsing-javascript` (:issue:`4556`, + :issue:`4562`) + +* Removed from :doc:`topics/coroutines` the warning about the API being + experimental (:issue:`4511`, :issue:`4513`) + +* Removed references to unsupported versions of :doc:`Twisted + ` (:issue:`4533`) + +* Updated the description of the :ref:`screenshot pipeline example + `, which now uses :doc:`coroutine syntax + ` instead of returning a + :class:`~twisted.internet.defer.Deferred` (:issue:`4514`, :issue:`4593`) + +* Removed a misleading import line from the + :func:`scrapy.utils.log.configure_logging` code example (:issue:`4510`, + :issue:`4587`) + +* The display-on-hover behavior of internal documentation references now also + covers links to :ref:`commands `, :attr:`Request.meta + ` keys, :ref:`settings ` and + :ref:`signals ` (:issue:`4495`, :issue:`4563`) + +* It is again possible to download the documentation for offline reading + (:issue:`4578`, :issue:`4585`) + +* Removed backslashes preceding ``*args`` and ``**kwargs`` in some function + and method signatures (:issue:`4592`, :issue:`4596`) + +.. _chompjs: https://github.com/Nykakin/chompjs + + +Quality assurance +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* Adjusted the code base further to our :ref:`style guidelines + ` (:issue:`4237`, :issue:`4525`, :issue:`4538`, + :issue:`4539`, :issue:`4540`, :issue:`4542`, :issue:`4543`, :issue:`4544`, + :issue:`4545`, :issue:`4557`, :issue:`4558`, :issue:`4566`, :issue:`4568`, + :issue:`4572`) + +* Removed remnants of Python 2 support (:issue:`4550`, :issue:`4553`, + :issue:`4568`) + +* Improved code sharing between the :command:`crawl` and :command:`runspider` + commands (:issue:`4548`, :issue:`4552`) + +* Replaced ``chain(*iterable)`` with ``chain.from_iterable(iterable)`` + (:issue:`4635`) + +* You may now run the :mod:`asyncio` tests with Tox on any Python version + (:issue:`4521`) + +* Updated test requirements to reflect an incompatibility with pytest 5.4 and + 5.4.1 (:issue:`4588`) + +* Improved :class:`~scrapy.spiderloader.SpiderLoader` test coverage for + scenarios involving duplicate spider names (:issue:`4549`, :issue:`4560`) + +* Configured Travis CI to also run the tests with Python 3.5.2 + (:issue:`4518`, :issue:`4615`) + +* Added a `Pylint `_ job to Travis CI + (:issue:`3727`) + +* Added a `Mypy `_ job to Travis CI (:issue:`4637`) + +* Made use of set literals in tests (:issue:`4573`) + +* Cleaned up the Travis CI configuration (:issue:`4517`, :issue:`4519`, + :issue:`4522`, :issue:`4537`) + + +.. _release-2.1.0: + +Scrapy 2.1.0 (2020-04-24) +------------------------- + +Highlights: + +* New :setting:`FEEDS` setting to export to multiple feeds +* New :attr:`Response.ip_address ` attribute + +Backward-incompatible changes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* :exc:`AssertionError` exceptions triggered by :ref:`assert ` + statements have been replaced by new exception types, to support running + Python in optimized mode (see :option:`-O`) without changing Scrapy’s + behavior in any unexpected ways. + + If you catch an :exc:`AssertionError` exception from Scrapy, update your + code to catch the corresponding new exception. + + (:issue:`4440`) + + +Deprecation removals +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* The ``LOG_UNSERIALIZABLE_REQUESTS`` setting is no longer supported, use + :setting:`SCHEDULER_DEBUG` instead (:issue:`4385`) + +* The ``REDIRECT_MAX_METAREFRESH_DELAY`` setting is no longer supported, use + :setting:`METAREFRESH_MAXDELAY` instead (:issue:`4385`) + +* The :class:`~scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.chunked.ChunkedTransferMiddleware` + middleware has been removed, including the entire + :class:`scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.chunked` module; chunked transfers + work out of the box (:issue:`4431`) + +* The ``spiders`` property has been removed from + :class:`~scrapy.crawler.Crawler`, use :class:`CrawlerRunner.spider_loader + ` or instantiate + :setting:`SPIDER_LOADER_CLASS` with your settings instead (:issue:`4398`) + +* The ``MultiValueDict``, ``MultiValueDictKeyError``, and ``SiteNode`` + classes have been removed from :mod:`scrapy.utils.datatypes` + (:issue:`4400`) + + +Deprecations +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* The ``FEED_FORMAT`` and ``FEED_URI`` settings have been deprecated in + favor of the new :setting:`FEEDS` setting (:issue:`1336`, :issue:`3858`, + :issue:`4507`) + + +New features +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* A new setting, :setting:`FEEDS`, allows configuring multiple output feeds + with different settings each (:issue:`1336`, :issue:`3858`, :issue:`4507`) + +* The :command:`crawl` and :command:`runspider` commands now support multiple + ``-o`` parameters (:issue:`1336`, :issue:`3858`, :issue:`4507`) + +* The :command:`crawl` and :command:`runspider` commands now support + specifying an output format by appending ``:`` to the output file + (:issue:`1336`, :issue:`3858`, :issue:`4507`) + +* The new :attr:`Response.ip_address ` + attribute gives access to the IP address that originated a response + (:issue:`3903`, :issue:`3940`) + +* A warning is now issued when a value in + :attr:`~scrapy.spiders.Spider.allowed_domains` includes a port + (:issue:`50`, :issue:`3198`, :issue:`4413`) + +* Zsh completion now excludes used option aliases from the completion list + (:issue:`4438`) + + +Bug fixes +~~~~~~~~~ + +* :ref:`Request serialization ` no longer breaks for + callbacks that are spider attributes which are assigned a function with a + different name (:issue:`4500`) + +* ``None`` values in :attr:`~scrapy.spiders.Spider.allowed_domains` no longer + cause a :exc:`TypeError` exception (:issue:`4410`) + +* Zsh completion no longer allows options after arguments (:issue:`4438`) + +* zope.interface 5.0.0 and later versions are now supported + (:issue:`4447`, :issue:`4448`) + +* :meth:`Spider.make_requests_from_url + `, deprecated in Scrapy + 1.4.0, now issues a warning when used (:issue:`4412`) + + +Documentation +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* Improved the documentation about signals that allow their handlers to + return a :class:`~twisted.internet.defer.Deferred` (:issue:`4295`, + :issue:`4390`) + +* Our PyPI entry now includes links for our documentation, our source code + repository and our issue tracker (:issue:`4456`) + +* Covered the `curl2scrapy `_ + service in the documentation (:issue:`4206`, :issue:`4455`) + +* Removed references to the Guppy library, which only works in Python 2 + (:issue:`4285`, :issue:`4343`) + +* Extended use of InterSphinx to link to Python 3 documentation + (:issue:`4444`, :issue:`4445`) + +* Added support for Sphinx 3.0 and later (:issue:`4475`, :issue:`4480`, + :issue:`4496`, :issue:`4503`) + + +Quality assurance +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* Removed warnings about using old, removed settings (:issue:`4404`) + +* Removed a warning about importing + :class:`~twisted.internet.testing.StringTransport` from + ``twisted.test.proto_helpers`` in Twisted 19.7.0 or newer (:issue:`4409`) + +* Removed outdated Debian package build files (:issue:`4384`) + +* Removed :class:`object` usage as a base class (:issue:`4430`) + +* Removed code that added support for old versions of Twisted that we no + longer support (:issue:`4472`) + +* Fixed code style issues (:issue:`4468`, :issue:`4469`, :issue:`4471`, + :issue:`4481`) + +* Removed :func:`twisted.internet.defer.returnValue` calls (:issue:`4443`, + :issue:`4446`, :issue:`4489`) + + +.. _release-2.0.1: + +Scrapy 2.0.1 (2020-03-18) +------------------------- + +* :meth:`Response.follow_all ` now supports + an empty URL iterable as input (:issue:`4408`, :issue:`4420`) + +* Removed top-level :mod:`~twisted.internet.reactor` imports to prevent + errors about the wrong Twisted reactor being installed when setting a + different Twisted reactor using :setting:`TWISTED_REACTOR` (:issue:`4401`, + :issue:`4406`) + +* Fixed tests (:issue:`4422`) + + +.. _release-2.0.0: + +Scrapy 2.0.0 (2020-03-03) +------------------------- + +Highlights: + +* Python 2 support has been removed +* :doc:`Partial ` :ref:`coroutine syntax ` support + and :doc:`experimental ` :mod:`asyncio` support +* New :meth:`Response.follow_all ` method +* :ref:`FTP support ` for media pipelines +* New :attr:`Response.certificate ` + attribute +* IPv6 support through :setting:`DNS_RESOLVER` + +Backward-incompatible changes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* Python 2 support has been removed, following `Python 2 end-of-life on + January 1, 2020`_ (:issue:`4091`, :issue:`4114`, :issue:`4115`, + :issue:`4121`, :issue:`4138`, :issue:`4231`, :issue:`4242`, :issue:`4304`, + :issue:`4309`, :issue:`4373`) + +* Retry gaveups (see :setting:`RETRY_TIMES`) are now logged as errors instead + of as debug information (:issue:`3171`, :issue:`3566`) + +* File extensions that + :class:`LinkExtractor ` + ignores by default now also include ``7z``, ``7zip``, ``apk``, ``bz2``, + ``cdr``, ``dmg``, ``ico``, ``iso``, ``tar``, ``tar.gz``, ``webm``, and + ``xz`` (:issue:`1837`, :issue:`2067`, :issue:`4066`) + +* The :setting:`METAREFRESH_IGNORE_TAGS` setting is now an empty list by + default, following web browser behavior (:issue:`3844`, :issue:`4311`) + +* The + :class:`~scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpcompression.HttpCompressionMiddleware` + now includes spaces after commas in the value of the ``Accept-Encoding`` + header that it sets, following web browser behavior (:issue:`4293`) + +* The ``__init__`` method of custom download handlers (see + :setting:`DOWNLOAD_HANDLERS`) or subclasses of the following downloader + handlers no longer receives a ``settings`` parameter: + + * :class:`scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.datauri.DataURIDownloadHandler` + + * :class:`scrapy.core.downloader.handlers.file.FileDownloadHandler` + + Use the ``from_settings`` or ``from_crawler`` class methods to expose such + a parameter to your custom download handlers. + + (:issue:`4126`) + +* We have refactored the :class:`scrapy.core.scheduler.Scheduler` class and + related queue classes (see :setting:`SCHEDULER_PRIORITY_QUEUE`, + :setting:`SCHEDULER_DISK_QUEUE` and :setting:`SCHEDULER_MEMORY_QUEUE`) to + make it easier to implement custom scheduler queue classes. See + :ref:`2-0-0-scheduler-queue-changes` below for details. + +* Overridden settings are now logged in a different format. This is more in + line with similar information logged at startup (:issue:`4199`) + +.. _Python 2 end-of-life on January 1, 2020: https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/ + + +Deprecation removals +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* The :ref:`Scrapy shell ` no longer provides a `sel` proxy + object, use :meth:`response.selector ` + instead (:issue:`4347`) + +* LevelDB support has been removed (:issue:`4112`) + +* The following functions have been removed from :mod:`scrapy.utils.python`: + ``isbinarytext``, ``is_writable``, ``setattr_default``, ``stringify_dict`` + (:issue:`4362`) + + +Deprecations +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* Using environment variables prefixed with ``SCRAPY_`` to override settings + is deprecated (:issue:`4300`, :issue:`4374`, :issue:`4375`) + +* :class:`scrapy.linkextractors.FilteringLinkExtractor` is deprecated, use + :class:`scrapy.linkextractors.LinkExtractor + ` instead (:issue:`4045`) + +* The ``noconnect`` query string argument of proxy URLs is deprecated and + should be removed from proxy URLs (:issue:`4198`) + +* The :meth:`next ` method of + :class:`scrapy.utils.python.MutableChain` is deprecated, use the global + :func:`next` function or :meth:`MutableChain.__next__ + ` instead (:issue:`4153`) + + +New features +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* Added :doc:`partial support ` for Python’s + :ref:`coroutine syntax ` and :doc:`experimental support + ` for :mod:`asyncio` and :mod:`asyncio`-powered libraries + (:issue:`4010`, :issue:`4259`, :issue:`4269`, :issue:`4270`, :issue:`4271`, + :issue:`4316`, :issue:`4318`) + +* The new :meth:`Response.follow_all ` + method offers the same functionality as + :meth:`Response.follow ` but supports an + iterable of URLs as input and returns an iterable of requests + (:issue:`2582`, :issue:`4057`, :issue:`4286`) + +* :ref:`Media pipelines ` now support :ref:`FTP + storage ` (:issue:`3928`, :issue:`3961`) + +* The new :attr:`Response.certificate ` + attribute exposes the SSL certificate of the server as a + :class:`twisted.internet.ssl.Certificate` object for HTTPS responses + (:issue:`2726`, :issue:`4054`) + +* A new :setting:`DNS_RESOLVER` setting allows enabling IPv6 support + (:issue:`1031`, :issue:`4227`) + +* A new :setting:`SCRAPER_SLOT_MAX_ACTIVE_SIZE` setting allows configuring + the existing soft limit that pauses request downloads when the total + response data being processed is too high (:issue:`1410`, :issue:`3551`) + +* A new :setting:`TWISTED_REACTOR` setting allows customizing the + :mod:`~twisted.internet.reactor` that Scrapy uses, allowing to + :doc:`enable asyncio support ` or deal with a + :ref:`common macOS issue ` (:issue:`2905`, + :issue:`4294`) + +* Scheduler disk and memory queues may now use the class methods + ``from_crawler`` or ``from_settings`` (:issue:`3884`) + +* The new :attr:`Response.cb_kwargs ` + attribute serves as a shortcut for :attr:`Response.request.cb_kwargs + ` (:issue:`4331`) + +* :meth:`Response.follow ` now supports a + ``flags`` parameter, for consistency with :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` + (:issue:`4277`, :issue:`4279`) + +* :ref:`Item loader processors ` can now be + regular functions, they no longer need to be methods (:issue:`3899`) + +* :class:`~scrapy.spiders.Rule` now accepts an ``errback`` parameter + (:issue:`4000`) + +* :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` no longer requires a ``callback`` parameter + when an ``errback`` parameter is specified (:issue:`3586`, :issue:`4008`) + +* :class:`~scrapy.logformatter.LogFormatter` now supports some additional + methods: + + * :class:`~scrapy.logformatter.LogFormatter.download_error` for + download errors + + * :class:`~scrapy.logformatter.LogFormatter.item_error` for exceptions + raised during item processing by :ref:`item pipelines + ` + + * :class:`~scrapy.logformatter.LogFormatter.spider_error` for exceptions + raised from :ref:`spider callbacks ` + + (:issue:`374`, :issue:`3986`, :issue:`3989`, :issue:`4176`, :issue:`4188`) + +* The :setting:`FEED_URI` setting now supports :class:`pathlib.Path` values + (:issue:`3731`, :issue:`4074`) + +* A new :signal:`request_left_downloader` signal is sent when a request + leaves the downloader (:issue:`4303`) + +* Scrapy logs a warning when it detects a request callback or errback that + uses ``yield`` but also returns a value, since the returned value would be + lost (:issue:`3484`, :issue:`3869`) + +* :class:`~scrapy.spiders.Spider` objects now raise an :exc:`AttributeError` + exception if they do not have a :class:`~scrapy.spiders.Spider.start_urls` + attribute nor reimplement :class:`~scrapy.spiders.Spider.start_requests`, + but have a ``start_url`` attribute (:issue:`4133`, :issue:`4170`) + +* :class:`~scrapy.exporters.BaseItemExporter` subclasses may now use + ``super().__init__(**kwargs)`` instead of ``self._configure(kwargs)`` in + their ``__init__`` method, passing ``dont_fail=True`` to the parent + ``__init__`` method if needed, and accessing ``kwargs`` at ``self._kwargs`` + after calling their parent ``__init__`` method (:issue:`4193`, + :issue:`4370`) + +* A new ``keep_fragments`` parameter of + :func:`scrapy.utils.request.request_fingerprint` allows to generate + different fingerprints for requests with different fragments in their URL + (:issue:`4104`) + +* Download handlers (see :setting:`DOWNLOAD_HANDLERS`) may now use the + ``from_settings`` and ``from_crawler`` class methods that other Scrapy + components already supported (:issue:`4126`) + +* :class:`scrapy.utils.python.MutableChain.__iter__` now returns ``self``, + `allowing it to be used as a sequence `_ + (:issue:`4153`) + + +Bug fixes +~~~~~~~~~ + +* The :command:`crawl` command now also exits with exit code 1 when an + exception happens before the crawling starts (:issue:`4175`, :issue:`4207`) + +* :class:`LinkExtractor.extract_links + ` no longer + re-encodes the query string or URLs from non-UTF-8 responses in UTF-8 + (:issue:`998`, :issue:`1403`, :issue:`1949`, :issue:`4321`) + +* The first spider middleware (see :setting:`SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES`) now also + processes exceptions raised from callbacks that are generators + (:issue:`4260`, :issue:`4272`) + +* Redirects to URLs starting with 3 slashes (``///``) are now supported + (:issue:`4032`, :issue:`4042`) + +* :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` no longer accepts strings as ``url`` simply + because they have a colon (:issue:`2552`, :issue:`4094`) + +* The correct encoding is now used for attach names in + :class:`~scrapy.mail.MailSender` (:issue:`4229`, :issue:`4239`) + +* :class:`~scrapy.dupefilters.RFPDupeFilter`, the default + :setting:`DUPEFILTER_CLASS`, no longer writes an extra ``\r`` character on + each line in Windows, which made the size of the ``requests.seen`` file + unnecessarily large on that platform (:issue:`4283`) + +* Z shell auto-completion now looks for ``.html`` files, not ``.http`` files, + and covers the ``-h`` command-line switch (:issue:`4122`, :issue:`4291`) + +* Adding items to a :class:`scrapy.utils.datatypes.LocalCache` object + without a ``limit`` defined no longer raises a :exc:`TypeError` exception + (:issue:`4123`) + +* Fixed a typo in the message of the :exc:`ValueError` exception raised when + :func:`scrapy.utils.misc.create_instance` gets both ``settings`` and + ``crawler`` set to ``None`` (:issue:`4128`) + + +Documentation +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* API documentation now links to an online, syntax-highlighted view of the + corresponding source code (:issue:`4148`) + +* Links to unexisting documentation pages now allow access to the sidebar + (:issue:`4152`, :issue:`4169`) + +* Cross-references within our documentation now display a tooltip when + hovered (:issue:`4173`, :issue:`4183`) + +* Improved the documentation about :meth:`LinkExtractor.extract_links + ` and + simplified :ref:`topics-link-extractors` (:issue:`4045`) + +* Clarified how :class:`ItemLoader.item ` + works (:issue:`3574`, :issue:`4099`) + +* Clarified that :func:`logging.basicConfig` should not be used when also + using :class:`~scrapy.crawler.CrawlerProcess` (:issue:`2149`, + :issue:`2352`, :issue:`3146`, :issue:`3960`) + +* Clarified the requirements for :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` objects + :ref:`when using persistence ` (:issue:`4124`, + :issue:`4139`) + +* Clarified how to install a :ref:`custom image pipeline + ` (:issue:`4034`, :issue:`4252`) + +* Fixed the signatures of the ``file_path`` method in :ref:`media pipeline + ` examples (:issue:`4290`) + +* Covered a backward-incompatible change in Scrapy 1.7.0 affecting custom + :class:`scrapy.core.scheduler.Scheduler` subclasses (:issue:`4274`) + +* Improved the ``README.rst`` and ``CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md`` files + (:issue:`4059`) + +* Documentation examples are now checked as part of our test suite and we + have fixed some of the issues detected (:issue:`4142`, :issue:`4146`, + :issue:`4171`, :issue:`4184`, :issue:`4190`) + +* Fixed logic issues, broken links and typos (:issue:`4247`, :issue:`4258`, + :issue:`4282`, :issue:`4288`, :issue:`4305`, :issue:`4308`, :issue:`4323`, + :issue:`4338`, :issue:`4359`, :issue:`4361`) + +* Improved consistency when referring to the ``__init__`` method of an object + (:issue:`4086`, :issue:`4088`) + +* Fixed an inconsistency between code and output in :ref:`intro-overview` + (:issue:`4213`) + +* Extended :mod:`~sphinx.ext.intersphinx` usage (:issue:`4147`, + :issue:`4172`, :issue:`4185`, :issue:`4194`, :issue:`4197`) + +* We now use a recent version of Python to build the documentation + (:issue:`4140`, :issue:`4249`) + +* Cleaned up documentation (:issue:`4143`, :issue:`4275`) + + +Quality assurance +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* Re-enabled proxy ``CONNECT`` tests (:issue:`2545`, :issue:`4114`) + +* Added Bandit_ security checks to our test suite (:issue:`4162`, + :issue:`4181`) + +* Added Flake8_ style checks to our test suite and applied many of the + corresponding changes (:issue:`3944`, :issue:`3945`, :issue:`4137`, + :issue:`4157`, :issue:`4167`, :issue:`4174`, :issue:`4186`, :issue:`4195`, + :issue:`4238`, :issue:`4246`, :issue:`4355`, :issue:`4360`, :issue:`4365`) + +* Improved test coverage (:issue:`4097`, :issue:`4218`, :issue:`4236`) + +* Started reporting slowest tests, and improved the performance of some of + them (:issue:`4163`, :issue:`4164`) + +* Fixed broken tests and refactored some tests (:issue:`4014`, :issue:`4095`, + :issue:`4244`, :issue:`4268`, :issue:`4372`) + +* Modified the :doc:`tox ` configuration to allow running tests + with any Python version, run Bandit_ and Flake8_ tests by default, and + enforce a minimum tox version programmatically (:issue:`4179`) + +* Cleaned up code (:issue:`3937`, :issue:`4208`, :issue:`4209`, + :issue:`4210`, :issue:`4212`, :issue:`4369`, :issue:`4376`, :issue:`4378`) + +.. _Bandit: https://bandit.readthedocs.io/ +.. _Flake8: https://flake8.pycqa.org/en/latest/ + + +.. _2-0-0-scheduler-queue-changes: + +Changes to scheduler queue classes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The following changes may impact any custom queue classes of all types: + +* The ``push`` method no longer receives a second positional parameter + containing ``request.priority * -1``. If you need that value, get it + from the first positional parameter, ``request``, instead, or use + the new :meth:`~scrapy.core.scheduler.ScrapyPriorityQueue.priority` + method in :class:`scrapy.core.scheduler.ScrapyPriorityQueue` + subclasses. + +The following changes may impact custom priority queue classes: + +* In the ``__init__`` method or the ``from_crawler`` or ``from_settings`` + class methods: + + * The parameter that used to contain a factory function, + ``qfactory``, is now passed as a keyword parameter named + ``downstream_queue_cls``. + + * A new keyword parameter has been added: ``key``. It is a string + that is always an empty string for memory queues and indicates the + :setting:`JOB_DIR` value for disk queues. + + * The parameter for disk queues that contains data from the previous + crawl, ``startprios`` or ``slot_startprios``, is now passed as a + keyword parameter named ``startprios``. + + * The ``serialize`` parameter is no longer passed. The disk queue + class must take care of request serialization on its own before + writing to disk, using the + :func:`~scrapy.utils.reqser.request_to_dict` and + :func:`~scrapy.utils.reqser.request_from_dict` functions from the + :mod:`scrapy.utils.reqser` module. + +The following changes may impact custom disk and memory queue classes: + +* The signature of the ``__init__`` method is now + ``__init__(self, crawler, key)``. + +The following changes affect specifically the +:class:`~scrapy.core.scheduler.ScrapyPriorityQueue` and +:class:`~scrapy.core.scheduler.DownloaderAwarePriorityQueue` classes from +:mod:`scrapy.core.scheduler` and may affect subclasses: + +* In the ``__init__`` method, most of the changes described above apply. + + ``__init__`` may still receive all parameters as positional parameters, + however: + + * ``downstream_queue_cls``, which replaced ``qfactory``, must be + instantiated differently. + + ``qfactory`` was instantiated with a priority value (integer). + + Instances of ``downstream_queue_cls`` should be created using + the new + :meth:`ScrapyPriorityQueue.qfactory ` + or + :meth:`DownloaderAwarePriorityQueue.pqfactory ` + methods. + + * The new ``key`` parameter displaced the ``startprios`` + parameter 1 position to the right. + +* The following class attributes have been added: + + * :attr:`~scrapy.core.scheduler.ScrapyPriorityQueue.crawler` + + * :attr:`~scrapy.core.scheduler.ScrapyPriorityQueue.downstream_queue_cls` + (details above) + + * :attr:`~scrapy.core.scheduler.ScrapyPriorityQueue.key` (details above) + +* The ``serialize`` attribute has been removed (details above) + +The following changes affect specifically the +:class:`~scrapy.core.scheduler.ScrapyPriorityQueue` class and may affect +subclasses: + +* A new :meth:`~scrapy.core.scheduler.ScrapyPriorityQueue.priority` + method has been added which, given a request, returns + ``request.priority * -1``. + + It is used in :meth:`~scrapy.core.scheduler.ScrapyPriorityQueue.push` + to make up for the removal of its ``priority`` parameter. + +* The ``spider`` attribute has been removed. Use + :attr:`crawler.spider ` + instead. + +The following changes affect specifically the +:class:`~scrapy.core.scheduler.DownloaderAwarePriorityQueue` class and may +affect subclasses: + +* A new :attr:`~scrapy.core.scheduler.DownloaderAwarePriorityQueue.pqueues` + attribute offers a mapping of downloader slot names to the + corresponding instances of + :attr:`~scrapy.core.scheduler.DownloaderAwarePriorityQueue.downstream_queue_cls`. + +(:issue:`3884`) + + +.. _release-1.8.1: + +Scrapy 1.8.1 (2021-10-05) +------------------------- + +* **Security bug fix:** + + If you use + :class:`~scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpauth.HttpAuthMiddleware` + (i.e. the ``http_user`` and ``http_pass`` spider attributes) for HTTP + authentication, any request exposes your credentials to the request target. + + To prevent unintended exposure of authentication credentials to unintended + domains, you must now additionally set a new, additional spider attribute, + ``http_auth_domain``, and point it to the specific domain to which the + authentication credentials must be sent. + + If the ``http_auth_domain`` spider attribute is not set, the domain of the + first request will be considered the HTTP authentication target, and + authentication credentials will only be sent in requests targeting that + domain. + + If you need to send the same HTTP authentication credentials to multiple + domains, you can use :func:`w3lib.http.basic_auth_header` instead to + set the value of the ``Authorization`` header of your requests. + + If you *really* want your spider to send the same HTTP authentication + credentials to any domain, set the ``http_auth_domain`` spider attribute + to ``None``. + + Finally, if you are a user of `scrapy-splash`_, know that this version of + Scrapy breaks compatibility with scrapy-splash 0.7.2 and earlier. You will + need to upgrade scrapy-splash to a greater version for it to continue to + work. + +.. _scrapy-splash: https://github.com/scrapy-plugins/scrapy-splash + + +.. _release-1.8.0: + +Scrapy 1.8.0 (2019-10-28) +------------------------- + +Highlights: + +* Dropped Python 3.4 support and updated minimum requirements; made Python 3.8 + support official +* New :meth:`Request.from_curl ` class method +* New :setting:`ROBOTSTXT_PARSER` and :setting:`ROBOTSTXT_USER_AGENT` settings +* New :setting:`DOWNLOADER_CLIENT_TLS_CIPHERS` and + :setting:`DOWNLOADER_CLIENT_TLS_VERBOSE_LOGGING` settings + +Backward-incompatible changes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* Python 3.4 is no longer supported, and some of the minimum requirements of + Scrapy have also changed: + + * :doc:`cssselect ` 0.9.1 + * cryptography_ 2.0 + * lxml_ 3.5.0 + * pyOpenSSL_ 16.2.0 + * queuelib_ 1.4.2 + * service_identity_ 16.0.0 + * six_ 1.10.0 + * Twisted_ 17.9.0 (16.0.0 with Python 2) + * zope.interface_ 4.1.3 + + (:issue:`3892`) + +* ``JSONRequest`` is now called :class:`~scrapy.http.JsonRequest` for + consistency with similar classes (:issue:`3929`, :issue:`3982`) + +* If you are using a custom context factory + (:setting:`DOWNLOADER_CLIENTCONTEXTFACTORY`), its ``__init__`` method must + accept two new parameters: ``tls_verbose_logging`` and ``tls_ciphers`` + (:issue:`2111`, :issue:`3392`, :issue:`3442`, :issue:`3450`) + +* :class:`~scrapy.loader.ItemLoader` now turns the values of its input item + into lists: + + >>> item = MyItem() + >>> item['field'] = 'value1' + >>> loader = ItemLoader(item=item) + >>> item['field'] + ['value1'] + + This is needed to allow adding values to existing fields + (``loader.add_value('field', 'value2')``). + + (:issue:`3804`, :issue:`3819`, :issue:`3897`, :issue:`3976`, :issue:`3998`, + :issue:`4036`) + +See also :ref:`1.8-deprecation-removals` below. + + +New features +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* A new :meth:`Request.from_curl ` class + method allows :ref:`creating a request from a cURL command + ` (:issue:`2985`, :issue:`3862`) + +* A new :setting:`ROBOTSTXT_PARSER` setting allows choosing which robots.txt_ + parser to use. It includes built-in support for + :ref:`RobotFileParser `, + :ref:`Protego ` (default), :ref:`Reppy `, and + :ref:`Robotexclusionrulesparser `, and allows you to + :ref:`implement support for additional parsers + ` (:issue:`754`, :issue:`2669`, + :issue:`3796`, :issue:`3935`, :issue:`3969`, :issue:`4006`) + +* A new :setting:`ROBOTSTXT_USER_AGENT` setting allows defining a separate + user agent string to use for robots.txt_ parsing (:issue:`3931`, + :issue:`3966`) + +* :class:`~scrapy.spiders.Rule` no longer requires a :class:`LinkExtractor + ` parameter + (:issue:`781`, :issue:`4016`) + +* Use the new :setting:`DOWNLOADER_CLIENT_TLS_CIPHERS` setting to customize + the TLS/SSL ciphers used by the default HTTP/1.1 downloader (:issue:`3392`, + :issue:`3442`) + +* Set the new :setting:`DOWNLOADER_CLIENT_TLS_VERBOSE_LOGGING` setting to + ``True`` to enable debug-level messages about TLS connection parameters + after establishing HTTPS connections (:issue:`2111`, :issue:`3450`) + +* Callbacks that receive keyword arguments + (see :attr:`Request.cb_kwargs `) can now be + tested using the new :class:`@cb_kwargs + ` + :ref:`spider contract ` (:issue:`3985`, :issue:`3988`) + +* When a :class:`@scrapes ` spider + contract fails, all missing fields are now reported (:issue:`766`, + :issue:`3939`) + +* :ref:`Custom log formats ` can now drop messages by + having the corresponding methods of the configured :setting:`LOG_FORMATTER` + return ``None`` (:issue:`3984`, :issue:`3987`) + +* A much improved completion definition is now available for Zsh_ + (:issue:`4069`) + + +Bug fixes +~~~~~~~~~ + +* :meth:`ItemLoader.load_item() ` no + longer makes later calls to :meth:`ItemLoader.get_output_value() + ` or + :meth:`ItemLoader.load_item() ` return + empty data (:issue:`3804`, :issue:`3819`, :issue:`3897`, :issue:`3976`, + :issue:`3998`, :issue:`4036`) + +* Fixed :class:`~scrapy.statscollectors.DummyStatsCollector` raising a + :exc:`TypeError` exception (:issue:`4007`, :issue:`4052`) + +* :meth:`FilesPipeline.file_path + ` and + :meth:`ImagesPipeline.file_path + ` no longer choose + file extensions that are not `registered with IANA`_ (:issue:`1287`, + :issue:`3953`, :issue:`3954`) + +* When using botocore_ to persist files in S3, all botocore-supported headers + are properly mapped now (:issue:`3904`, :issue:`3905`) + +* FTP passwords in :setting:`FEED_URI` containing percent-escaped characters + are now properly decoded (:issue:`3941`) + +* A memory-handling and error-handling issue in + :func:`scrapy.utils.ssl.get_temp_key_info` has been fixed (:issue:`3920`) + + +Documentation +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* The documentation now covers how to define and configure a :ref:`custom log + format ` (:issue:`3616`, :issue:`3660`) + +* API documentation added for :class:`~scrapy.exporters.MarshalItemExporter` + and :class:`~scrapy.exporters.PythonItemExporter` (:issue:`3973`) + +* API documentation added for :class:`~scrapy.item.BaseItem` and + :class:`~scrapy.item.ItemMeta` (:issue:`3999`) + +* Minor documentation fixes (:issue:`2998`, :issue:`3398`, :issue:`3597`, + :issue:`3894`, :issue:`3934`, :issue:`3978`, :issue:`3993`, :issue:`4022`, + :issue:`4028`, :issue:`4033`, :issue:`4046`, :issue:`4050`, :issue:`4055`, + :issue:`4056`, :issue:`4061`, :issue:`4072`, :issue:`4071`, :issue:`4079`, + :issue:`4081`, :issue:`4089`, :issue:`4093`) + + +.. _1.8-deprecation-removals: + +Deprecation removals +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* ``scrapy.xlib`` has been removed (:issue:`4015`) + + +.. _1.8-deprecations: + +Deprecations +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* The LevelDB_ storage backend + (``scrapy.extensions.httpcache.LeveldbCacheStorage``) of + :class:`~scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpcache.HttpCacheMiddleware` is + deprecated (:issue:`4085`, :issue:`4092`) + +* Use of the undocumented ``SCRAPY_PICKLED_SETTINGS_TO_OVERRIDE`` environment + variable is deprecated (:issue:`3910`) + +* ``scrapy.item.DictItem`` is deprecated, use :class:`~scrapy.item.Item` + instead (:issue:`3999`) + + +Other changes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* Minimum versions of optional Scrapy requirements that are covered by + continuous integration tests have been updated: + + * botocore_ 1.3.23 + * Pillow_ 3.4.2 + + Lower versions of these optional requirements may work, but it is not + guaranteed (:issue:`3892`) + +* GitHub templates for bug reports and feature requests (:issue:`3126`, + :issue:`3471`, :issue:`3749`, :issue:`3754`) + +* Continuous integration fixes (:issue:`3923`) + +* Code cleanup (:issue:`3391`, :issue:`3907`, :issue:`3946`, :issue:`3950`, + :issue:`4023`, :issue:`4031`) + + +.. _release-1.7.4: + +Scrapy 1.7.4 (2019-10-21) +------------------------- + +Revert the fix for :issue:`3804` (:issue:`3819`), which has a few undesired +side effects (:issue:`3897`, :issue:`3976`). + +As a result, when an item loader is initialized with an item, +:meth:`ItemLoader.load_item() ` once again +makes later calls to :meth:`ItemLoader.get_output_value() +` or :meth:`ItemLoader.load_item() +` return empty data. + + +.. _release-1.7.3: + +Scrapy 1.7.3 (2019-08-01) +------------------------- + +Enforce lxml 4.3.5 or lower for Python 3.4 (:issue:`3912`, :issue:`3918`). + + +.. _release-1.7.2: + +Scrapy 1.7.2 (2019-07-23) +------------------------- + +Fix Python 2 support (:issue:`3889`, :issue:`3893`, :issue:`3896`). + + +.. _release-1.7.1: + +Scrapy 1.7.1 (2019-07-18) +------------------------- + +Re-packaging of Scrapy 1.7.0, which was missing some changes in PyPI. + + +.. _release-1.7.0: + +Scrapy 1.7.0 (2019-07-18) +------------------------- + +.. note:: Make sure you install Scrapy 1.7.1. The Scrapy 1.7.0 package in PyPI + is the result of an erroneous commit tagging and does not include all + the changes described below. + +Highlights: + +* Improvements for crawls targeting multiple domains +* A cleaner way to pass arguments to callbacks +* A new class for JSON requests +* Improvements for rule-based spiders +* New features for feed exports + +Backward-incompatible changes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* ``429`` is now part of the :setting:`RETRY_HTTP_CODES` setting by default + + This change is **backward incompatible**. If you don’t want to retry + ``429``, you must override :setting:`RETRY_HTTP_CODES` accordingly. + +* :class:`~scrapy.crawler.Crawler`, + :class:`CrawlerRunner.crawl ` and + :class:`CrawlerRunner.create_crawler ` + no longer accept a :class:`~scrapy.spiders.Spider` subclass instance, they + only accept a :class:`~scrapy.spiders.Spider` subclass now. + + :class:`~scrapy.spiders.Spider` subclass instances were never meant to + work, and they were not working as one would expect: instead of using the + passed :class:`~scrapy.spiders.Spider` subclass instance, their + :class:`~scrapy.spiders.Spider.from_crawler` method was called to generate + a new instance. + +* Non-default values for the :setting:`SCHEDULER_PRIORITY_QUEUE` setting + may stop working. Scheduler priority queue classes now need to handle + :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` objects instead of arbitrary Python data + structures. + +* An additional ``crawler`` parameter has been added to the ``__init__`` + method of the :class:`~scrapy.core.scheduler.Scheduler` class. Custom + scheduler subclasses which don't accept arbitrary parameters in their + ``__init__`` method might break because of this change. + + For more information, see :setting:`SCHEDULER`. + +See also :ref:`1.7-deprecation-removals` below. + + +New features +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* A new scheduler priority queue, + ``scrapy.pqueues.DownloaderAwarePriorityQueue``, may be + :ref:`enabled ` for a significant + scheduling improvement on crawls targeting multiple web domains, at the + cost of no :setting:`CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_IP` support (:issue:`3520`) + +* A new :attr:`Request.cb_kwargs ` attribute + provides a cleaner way to pass keyword arguments to callback methods + (:issue:`1138`, :issue:`3563`) + +* A new :class:`JSONRequest ` class offers a more + convenient way to build JSON requests (:issue:`3504`, :issue:`3505`) + +* A ``process_request`` callback passed to the :class:`~scrapy.spiders.Rule` + ``__init__`` method now receives the :class:`~scrapy.http.Response` object that + originated the request as its second argument (:issue:`3682`) + +* A new ``restrict_text`` parameter for the + :attr:`LinkExtractor ` + ``__init__`` method allows filtering links by linking text (:issue:`3622`, + :issue:`3635`) + +* A new :setting:`FEED_STORAGE_S3_ACL` setting allows defining a custom ACL + for feeds exported to Amazon S3 (:issue:`3607`) + +* A new :setting:`FEED_STORAGE_FTP_ACTIVE` setting allows using FTP’s active + connection mode for feeds exported to FTP servers (:issue:`3829`) + +* A new :setting:`METAREFRESH_IGNORE_TAGS` setting allows overriding which + HTML tags are ignored when searching a response for HTML meta tags that + trigger a redirect (:issue:`1422`, :issue:`3768`) + +* A new :reqmeta:`redirect_reasons` request meta key exposes the reason + (status code, meta refresh) behind every followed redirect (:issue:`3581`, + :issue:`3687`) + +* The ``SCRAPY_CHECK`` variable is now set to the ``true`` string during runs + of the :command:`check` command, which allows :ref:`detecting contract + check runs from code ` (:issue:`3704`, + :issue:`3739`) + +* A new :meth:`Item.deepcopy() ` method makes it + easier to :ref:`deep-copy items ` (:issue:`1493`, + :issue:`3671`) + +* :class:`~scrapy.extensions.corestats.CoreStats` also logs + ``elapsed_time_seconds`` now (:issue:`3638`) + +* Exceptions from :class:`~scrapy.loader.ItemLoader` :ref:`input and output + processors ` are now more verbose + (:issue:`3836`, :issue:`3840`) + +* :class:`~scrapy.crawler.Crawler`, + :class:`CrawlerRunner.crawl ` and + :class:`CrawlerRunner.create_crawler ` + now fail gracefully if they receive a :class:`~scrapy.spiders.Spider` + subclass instance instead of the subclass itself (:issue:`2283`, + :issue:`3610`, :issue:`3872`) + + +Bug fixes +~~~~~~~~~ + +* :meth:`~scrapy.spidermiddlewares.SpiderMiddleware.process_spider_exception` + is now also invoked for generators (:issue:`220`, :issue:`2061`) + +* System exceptions like KeyboardInterrupt_ are no longer caught + (:issue:`3726`) + +* :meth:`ItemLoader.load_item() ` no + longer makes later calls to :meth:`ItemLoader.get_output_value() + ` or + :meth:`ItemLoader.load_item() ` return + empty data (:issue:`3804`, :issue:`3819`) + +* The images pipeline (:class:`~scrapy.pipelines.images.ImagesPipeline`) no + longer ignores these Amazon S3 settings: :setting:`AWS_ENDPOINT_URL`, + :setting:`AWS_REGION_NAME`, :setting:`AWS_USE_SSL`, :setting:`AWS_VERIFY` + (:issue:`3625`) + +* Fixed a memory leak in ``scrapy.pipelines.media.MediaPipeline`` affecting, + for example, non-200 responses and exceptions from custom middlewares + (:issue:`3813`) + +* Requests with private callbacks are now correctly unserialized from disk + (:issue:`3790`) + +* :meth:`FormRequest.from_response() ` + now handles invalid methods like major web browsers (:issue:`3777`, + :issue:`3794`) + + +Documentation +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* A new topic, :ref:`topics-dynamic-content`, covers recommended approaches + to read dynamically-loaded data (:issue:`3703`) + +* :ref:`topics-broad-crawls` now features information about memory usage + (:issue:`1264`, :issue:`3866`) + +* The documentation of :class:`~scrapy.spiders.Rule` now covers how to access + the text of a link when using :class:`~scrapy.spiders.CrawlSpider` + (:issue:`3711`, :issue:`3712`) + +* A new section, :ref:`httpcache-storage-custom`, covers writing a custom + cache storage backend for + :class:`~scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpcache.HttpCacheMiddleware` + (:issue:`3683`, :issue:`3692`) + +* A new :ref:`FAQ ` entry, :ref:`faq-split-item`, explains what to do + when you want to split an item into multiple items from an item pipeline + (:issue:`2240`, :issue:`3672`) + +* Updated the :ref:`FAQ entry about crawl order ` to explain why + the first few requests rarely follow the desired order (:issue:`1739`, + :issue:`3621`) + +* The :setting:`LOGSTATS_INTERVAL` setting (:issue:`3730`), the + :meth:`FilesPipeline.file_path ` + and + :meth:`ImagesPipeline.file_path ` + methods (:issue:`2253`, :issue:`3609`) and the + :meth:`Crawler.stop() ` method (:issue:`3842`) + are now documented + +* Some parts of the documentation that were confusing or misleading are now + clearer (:issue:`1347`, :issue:`1789`, :issue:`2289`, :issue:`3069`, + :issue:`3615`, :issue:`3626`, :issue:`3668`, :issue:`3670`, :issue:`3673`, + :issue:`3728`, :issue:`3762`, :issue:`3861`, :issue:`3882`) + +* Minor documentation fixes (:issue:`3648`, :issue:`3649`, :issue:`3662`, + :issue:`3674`, :issue:`3676`, :issue:`3694`, :issue:`3724`, :issue:`3764`, + :issue:`3767`, :issue:`3791`, :issue:`3797`, :issue:`3806`, :issue:`3812`) + +.. _1.7-deprecation-removals: + +Deprecation removals +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The following deprecated APIs have been removed (:issue:`3578`): + +* ``scrapy.conf`` (use :attr:`Crawler.settings + `) + +* From ``scrapy.core.downloader.handlers``: + + * ``http.HttpDownloadHandler`` (use ``http10.HTTP10DownloadHandler``) + +* ``scrapy.loader.ItemLoader._get_values`` (use ``_get_xpathvalues``) + +* ``scrapy.loader.XPathItemLoader`` (use :class:`~scrapy.loader.ItemLoader`) + +* ``scrapy.log`` (see :ref:`topics-logging`) + +* From ``scrapy.pipelines``: + + * ``files.FilesPipeline.file_key`` (use ``file_path``) + + * ``images.ImagesPipeline.file_key`` (use ``file_path``) + + * ``images.ImagesPipeline.image_key`` (use ``file_path``) + + * ``images.ImagesPipeline.thumb_key`` (use ``thumb_path``) + +* From both ``scrapy.selector`` and ``scrapy.selector.lxmlsel``: + + * ``HtmlXPathSelector`` (use :class:`~scrapy.selector.Selector`) + + * ``XmlXPathSelector`` (use :class:`~scrapy.selector.Selector`) + + * ``XPathSelector`` (use :class:`~scrapy.selector.Selector`) + + * ``XPathSelectorList`` (use :class:`~scrapy.selector.Selector`) + +* From ``scrapy.selector.csstranslator``: + + * ``ScrapyGenericTranslator`` (use parsel.csstranslator.GenericTranslator_) + + * ``ScrapyHTMLTranslator`` (use parsel.csstranslator.HTMLTranslator_) + + * ``ScrapyXPathExpr`` (use parsel.csstranslator.XPathExpr_) + +* From :class:`~scrapy.selector.Selector`: + + * ``_root`` (both the ``__init__`` method argument and the object property, use + ``root``) + + * ``extract_unquoted`` (use ``getall``) + + * ``select`` (use ``xpath``) + +* From :class:`~scrapy.selector.SelectorList`: + + * ``extract_unquoted`` (use ``getall``) + + * ``select`` (use ``xpath``) + + * ``x`` (use ``xpath``) + +* ``scrapy.spiders.BaseSpider`` (use :class:`~scrapy.spiders.Spider`) + +* From :class:`~scrapy.spiders.Spider` (and subclasses): + + * ``DOWNLOAD_DELAY`` (use :ref:`download_delay + `) + + * ``set_crawler`` (use :meth:`~scrapy.spiders.Spider.from_crawler`) + +* ``scrapy.spiders.spiders`` (use :class:`~scrapy.spiderloader.SpiderLoader`) + +* ``scrapy.telnet`` (use :mod:`scrapy.extensions.telnet`) + +* From ``scrapy.utils.python``: + + * ``str_to_unicode`` (use ``to_unicode``) + + * ``unicode_to_str`` (use ``to_bytes``) + +* ``scrapy.utils.response.body_or_str`` + +The following deprecated settings have also been removed (:issue:`3578`): + +* ``SPIDER_MANAGER_CLASS`` (use :setting:`SPIDER_LOADER_CLASS`) + + +.. _1.7-deprecations: + +Deprecations +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* The ``queuelib.PriorityQueue`` value for the + :setting:`SCHEDULER_PRIORITY_QUEUE` setting is deprecated. Use + ``scrapy.pqueues.ScrapyPriorityQueue`` instead. + +* ``process_request`` callbacks passed to :class:`~scrapy.spiders.Rule` that + do not accept two arguments are deprecated. + +* The following modules are deprecated: + + * ``scrapy.utils.http`` (use `w3lib.http`_) + + * ``scrapy.utils.markup`` (use `w3lib.html`_) + + * ``scrapy.utils.multipart`` (use `urllib3`_) + +* The ``scrapy.utils.datatypes.MergeDict`` class is deprecated for Python 3 + code bases. Use :class:`~collections.ChainMap` instead. (:issue:`3878`) + +* The ``scrapy.utils.gz.is_gzipped`` function is deprecated. Use + ``scrapy.utils.gz.gzip_magic_number`` instead. + +.. _urllib3: https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html +.. _w3lib.html: https://w3lib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/w3lib.html#module-w3lib.html +.. _w3lib.http: https://w3lib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/w3lib.html#module-w3lib.http + + +Other changes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* It is now possible to run all tests from the same tox_ environment in + parallel; the documentation now covers :ref:`this and other ways to run + tests ` (:issue:`3707`) + +* It is now possible to generate an API documentation coverage report + (:issue:`3806`, :issue:`3810`, :issue:`3860`) + +* The :ref:`documentation policies ` now require + docstrings_ (:issue:`3701`) that follow `PEP 257`_ (:issue:`3748`) + +* Internal fixes and cleanup (:issue:`3629`, :issue:`3643`, :issue:`3684`, + :issue:`3698`, :issue:`3734`, :issue:`3735`, :issue:`3736`, :issue:`3737`, + :issue:`3809`, :issue:`3821`, :issue:`3825`, :issue:`3827`, :issue:`3833`, + :issue:`3857`, :issue:`3877`) + +.. _release-1.6.0: + +Scrapy 1.6.0 (2019-01-30) +------------------------- + +Highlights: + +* better Windows support; +* Python 3.7 compatibility; +* big documentation improvements, including a switch + from ``.extract_first()`` + ``.extract()`` API to ``.get()`` + ``.getall()`` + API; +* feed exports, FilePipeline and MediaPipeline improvements; +* better extensibility: :signal:`item_error` and + :signal:`request_reached_downloader` signals; ``from_crawler`` support + for feed exporters, feed storages and dupefilters. +* ``scrapy.contracts`` fixes and new features; +* telnet console security improvements, first released as a + backport in :ref:`release-1.5.2`; +* clean-up of the deprecated code; +* various bug fixes, small new features and usability improvements across + the codebase. + +Selector API changes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +While these are not changes in Scrapy itself, but rather in the parsel_ +library which Scrapy uses for xpath/css selectors, these changes are +worth mentioning here. Scrapy now depends on parsel >= 1.5, and +Scrapy documentation is updated to follow recent ``parsel`` API conventions. + +Most visible change is that ``.get()`` and ``.getall()`` selector +methods are now preferred over ``.extract_first()`` and ``.extract()``. +We feel that these new methods result in a more concise and readable code. +See :ref:`old-extraction-api` for more details. + +.. note:: + There are currently **no plans** to deprecate ``.extract()`` + and ``.extract_first()`` methods. + +Another useful new feature is the introduction of ``Selector.attrib`` and +``SelectorList.attrib`` properties, which make it easier to get +attributes of HTML elements. See :ref:`selecting-attributes`. + +CSS selectors are cached in parsel >= 1.5, which makes them faster +when the same CSS path is used many times. This is very common in +case of Scrapy spiders: callbacks are usually called several times, +on different pages. + +If you're using custom ``Selector`` or ``SelectorList`` subclasses, +a **backward incompatible** change in parsel may affect your code. +See `parsel changelog`_ for a detailed description, as well as for the +full list of improvements. + +.. _parsel changelog: https://parsel.readthedocs.io/en/latest/history.html + +Telnet console +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +**Backward incompatible**: Scrapy's telnet console now requires username +and password. See :ref:`topics-telnetconsole` for more details. This change +fixes a **security issue**; see :ref:`release-1.5.2` release notes for details. + +New extensibility features +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* ``from_crawler`` support is added to feed exporters and feed storages. This, + among other things, allows to access Scrapy settings from custom feed + storages and exporters (:issue:`1605`, :issue:`3348`). +* ``from_crawler`` support is added to dupefilters (:issue:`2956`); this allows + to access e.g. settings or a spider from a dupefilter. +* :signal:`item_error` is fired when an error happens in a pipeline + (:issue:`3256`); +* :signal:`request_reached_downloader` is fired when Downloader gets + a new Request; this signal can be useful e.g. for custom Schedulers + (:issue:`3393`). +* new SitemapSpider :meth:`~.SitemapSpider.sitemap_filter` method which allows + to select sitemap entries based on their attributes in SitemapSpider + subclasses (:issue:`3512`). +* Lazy loading of Downloader Handlers is now optional; this enables better + initialization error handling in custom Downloader Handlers (:issue:`3394`). + +New FilePipeline and MediaPipeline features +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* Expose more options for S3FilesStore: :setting:`AWS_ENDPOINT_URL`, + :setting:`AWS_USE_SSL`, :setting:`AWS_VERIFY`, :setting:`AWS_REGION_NAME`. + For example, this allows to use alternative or self-hosted + AWS-compatible providers (:issue:`2609`, :issue:`3548`). +* ACL support for Google Cloud Storage: :setting:`FILES_STORE_GCS_ACL` and + :setting:`IMAGES_STORE_GCS_ACL` (:issue:`3199`). + +``scrapy.contracts`` improvements +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* Exceptions in contracts code are handled better (:issue:`3377`); +* ``dont_filter=True`` is used for contract requests, which allows to test + different callbacks with the same URL (:issue:`3381`); +* ``request_cls`` attribute in Contract subclasses allow to use different + Request classes in contracts, for example FormRequest (:issue:`3383`). +* Fixed errback handling in contracts, e.g. for cases where a contract + is executed for URL which returns non-200 response (:issue:`3371`). + +Usability improvements +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* more stats for RobotsTxtMiddleware (:issue:`3100`) +* INFO log level is used to show telnet host/port (:issue:`3115`) +* a message is added to IgnoreRequest in RobotsTxtMiddleware (:issue:`3113`) +* better validation of ``url`` argument in ``Response.follow`` (:issue:`3131`) +* non-zero exit code is returned from Scrapy commands when error happens + on spider initialization (:issue:`3226`) +* Link extraction improvements: "ftp" is added to scheme list (:issue:`3152`); + "flv" is added to common video extensions (:issue:`3165`) +* better error message when an exporter is disabled (:issue:`3358`); +* ``scrapy shell --help`` mentions syntax required for local files + (``./file.html``) - :issue:`3496`. +* Referer header value is added to RFPDupeFilter log messages (:issue:`3588`) + +Bug fixes +~~~~~~~~~ + +* fixed issue with extra blank lines in .csv exports under Windows + (:issue:`3039`); +* proper handling of pickling errors in Python 3 when serializing objects + for disk queues (:issue:`3082`) +* flags are now preserved when copying Requests (:issue:`3342`); +* FormRequest.from_response clickdata shouldn't ignore elements with + ``input[type=image]`` (:issue:`3153`). +* FormRequest.from_response should preserve duplicate keys (:issue:`3247`) + +Documentation improvements +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* Docs are re-written to suggest .get/.getall API instead of + .extract/.extract_first. Also, :ref:`topics-selectors` docs are updated + and re-structured to match latest parsel docs; they now contain more topics, + such as :ref:`selecting-attributes` or :ref:`topics-selectors-css-extensions` + (:issue:`3390`). +* :ref:`topics-developer-tools` is a new tutorial which replaces + old Firefox and Firebug tutorials (:issue:`3400`). +* SCRAPY_PROJECT environment variable is documented (:issue:`3518`); +* troubleshooting section is added to install instructions (:issue:`3517`); +* improved links to beginner resources in the tutorial + (:issue:`3367`, :issue:`3468`); +* fixed :setting:`RETRY_HTTP_CODES` default values in docs (:issue:`3335`); +* remove unused ``DEPTH_STATS`` option from docs (:issue:`3245`); +* other cleanups (:issue:`3347`, :issue:`3350`, :issue:`3445`, :issue:`3544`, + :issue:`3605`). + +Deprecation removals +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Compatibility shims for pre-1.0 Scrapy module names are removed +(:issue:`3318`): + +* ``scrapy.command`` +* ``scrapy.contrib`` (with all submodules) +* ``scrapy.contrib_exp`` (with all submodules) +* ``scrapy.dupefilter`` +* ``scrapy.linkextractor`` +* ``scrapy.project`` +* ``scrapy.spider`` +* ``scrapy.spidermanager`` +* ``scrapy.squeue`` +* ``scrapy.stats`` +* ``scrapy.statscol`` +* ``scrapy.utils.decorator`` + +See :ref:`module-relocations` for more information, or use suggestions +from Scrapy 1.5.x deprecation warnings to update your code. + +Other deprecation removals: + +* Deprecated scrapy.interfaces.ISpiderManager is removed; please use + scrapy.interfaces.ISpiderLoader. +* Deprecated ``CrawlerSettings`` class is removed (:issue:`3327`). +* Deprecated ``Settings.overrides`` and ``Settings.defaults`` attributes + are removed (:issue:`3327`, :issue:`3359`). + +Other improvements, cleanups +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* All Scrapy tests now pass on Windows; Scrapy testing suite is executed + in a Windows environment on CI (:issue:`3315`). +* Python 3.7 support (:issue:`3326`, :issue:`3150`, :issue:`3547`). +* Testing and CI fixes (:issue:`3526`, :issue:`3538`, :issue:`3308`, + :issue:`3311`, :issue:`3309`, :issue:`3305`, :issue:`3210`, :issue:`3299`) +* ``scrapy.http.cookies.CookieJar.clear`` accepts "domain", "path" and "name" + optional arguments (:issue:`3231`). +* additional files are included to sdist (:issue:`3495`); +* code style fixes (:issue:`3405`, :issue:`3304`); +* unneeded .strip() call is removed (:issue:`3519`); +* collections.deque is used to store MiddlewareManager methods instead + of a list (:issue:`3476`) + +.. _release-1.5.2: + +Scrapy 1.5.2 (2019-01-22) +------------------------- + +* *Security bugfix*: Telnet console extension can be easily exploited by rogue + websites POSTing content to http://localhost:6023, we haven't found a way to + exploit it from Scrapy, but it is very easy to trick a browser to do so and + elevates the risk for local development environment. + + *The fix is backward incompatible*, it enables telnet user-password + authentication by default with a random generated password. If you can't + upgrade right away, please consider setting :setting:`TELNETCONSOLE_PORT` + out of its default value. + + See :ref:`telnet console ` documentation for more info + +* Backport CI build failure under GCE environment due to boto import error. + +.. _release-1.5.1: + +Scrapy 1.5.1 (2018-07-12) +------------------------- + +This is a maintenance release with important bug fixes, but no new features: + +* ``O(N^2)`` gzip decompression issue which affected Python 3 and PyPy + is fixed (:issue:`3281`); +* skipping of TLS validation errors is improved (:issue:`3166`); +* Ctrl-C handling is fixed in Python 3.5+ (:issue:`3096`); +* testing fixes (:issue:`3092`, :issue:`3263`); +* documentation improvements (:issue:`3058`, :issue:`3059`, :issue:`3089`, + :issue:`3123`, :issue:`3127`, :issue:`3189`, :issue:`3224`, :issue:`3280`, + :issue:`3279`, :issue:`3201`, :issue:`3260`, :issue:`3284`, :issue:`3298`, + :issue:`3294`). + + +.. _release-1.5.0: + Scrapy 1.5.0 (2017-12-29) ------------------------- @@ -21,15 +2377,15 @@ Some highlights: * Better default handling of HTTP 308, 522 and 524 status codes. * Documentation is improved, as usual. -Backwards Incompatible Changes -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Backward Incompatible Changes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Scrapy 1.5 drops support for Python 3.3. * Default Scrapy User-Agent now uses https link to scrapy.org (:issue:`2983`). - **This is technically backwards-incompatible**; override + **This is technically backward-incompatible**; override :setting:`USER_AGENT` if you relied on old value. * Logging of settings overridden by ``custom_settings`` is fixed; - **this is technically backwards-incompatible** because the logger + **this is technically backward-incompatible** because the logger changes from ``[scrapy.utils.log]`` to ``[scrapy.crawler]``. If you're parsing Scrapy logs, please update your log parsers (:issue:`1343`). * LinkExtractor now ignores ``m4v`` extension by default, this is change @@ -66,11 +2422,11 @@ Bug fixes ~~~~~~~~~ - Fix logging of settings overridden by ``custom_settings``; - **this is technically backwards-incompatible** because the logger + **this is technically backward-incompatible** because the logger changes from ``[scrapy.utils.log]`` to ``[scrapy.crawler]``, so please update your log parsers if needed (:issue:`1343`) - Default Scrapy User-Agent now uses https link to scrapy.org (:issue:`2983`). - **This is technically backwards-incompatible**; override + **This is technically backward-incompatible**; override :setting:`USER_AGENT` if you relied on old value. - Fix PyPy and PyPy3 test failures, support them officially (:issue:`2793`, :issue:`2935`, :issue:`2990`, :issue:`3050`, :issue:`2213`, @@ -114,6 +2470,7 @@ Docs - Document ``from_crawler`` methods for spider and downloader middlewares (:issue:`3019`) +.. _release-1.4.0: Scrapy 1.4.0 (2017-05-18) ------------------------- @@ -156,7 +2513,7 @@ attributes with ``FormRequest``. **Please also note that link extractors do not canonicalize URLs by default anymore.** This was puzzling users every now and then, and it's not what -browsers do in fact, so we removed that extra transformation on extractred +browsers do in fact, so we removed that extra transformation on extracted links. For those of you wanting more control on the ``Referer:`` header that Scrapy @@ -179,18 +2536,20 @@ offset, using the new :setting:`FEED_EXPORT_INDENT` setting. Enjoy! (Or read on for the rest of changes in this release.) -Deprecations and Backwards Incompatible Changes -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Deprecations and Backward Incompatible Changes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- Default to ``canonicalize=False`` in :class:`scrapy.linkextractors.LinkExtractor` +- Default to ``canonicalize=False`` in + :class:`scrapy.linkextractors.LinkExtractor + ` (:issue:`2537`, fixes :issue:`1941` and :issue:`1982`): - **warning, this is technically backwards-incompatible** + **warning, this is technically backward-incompatible** - Enable memusage extension by default (:issue:`2539`, fixes :issue:`2187`); - **this is technically backwards-incompatible** so please check if you have + **this is technically backward-incompatible** so please check if you have any non-default ``MEMUSAGE_***`` options set. - ``EDITOR`` environment variable now takes precedence over ``EDITOR`` option defined in settings.py (:issue:`1829`); Scrapy default settings - no longer depend on environment variables. **This is technically a backwards + no longer depend on environment variables. **This is technically a backward incompatible change**. - ``Spider.make_requests_from_url`` is deprecated (:issue:`1728`, fixes :issue:`1495`). @@ -218,10 +2577,13 @@ New Features - New ``data:`` URI download handler (:issue:`2334`, fixes :issue:`2156`) - Log cache directory when HTTP Cache is used (:issue:`2611`, fixes :issue:`2604`) - Warn users when project contains duplicate spider names (fixes :issue:`2181`) -- :class:`CaselessDict` now accepts ``Mapping`` instances and not only dicts (:issue:`2646`) -- :ref:`Media downloads `, with :class:`FilesPipelines` - or :class:`ImagesPipelines`, can now optionally handle HTTP redirects - using the new :setting:`MEDIA_ALLOW_REDIRECTS` setting (:issue:`2616`, fixes :issue:`2004`) +- ``scrapy.utils.datatypes.CaselessDict`` now accepts ``Mapping`` instances and + not only dicts (:issue:`2646`) +- :ref:`Media downloads `, with + :class:`~scrapy.pipelines.files.FilesPipeline` or + :class:`~scrapy.pipelines.images.ImagesPipeline`, can now optionally handle + HTTP redirects using the new :setting:`MEDIA_ALLOW_REDIRECTS` setting + (:issue:`2616`, fixes :issue:`2004`) - Accept non-complete responses from websites using a new :setting:`DOWNLOAD_FAIL_ON_DATALOSS` setting (:issue:`2590`, fixes :issue:`2586`) - Optional pretty-printing of JSON and XML items via @@ -241,8 +2603,8 @@ Bug fixes - LinkExtractor now strips leading and trailing whitespaces from attributes (:issue:`2547`, fixes :issue:`1614`) -- Properly handle whitespaces in action attribute in :class:`FormRequest` - (:issue:`2548`) +- Properly handle whitespaces in action attribute in + :class:`~scrapy.http.FormRequest` (:issue:`2548`) - Buffer CONNECT response bytes from proxy until all HTTP headers are received (:issue:`2495`, fixes :issue:`2491`) - FTP downloader now works on Python 3, provided you use Twisted>=17.1 @@ -264,7 +2626,7 @@ Cleanups & Refactoring ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Tests: remove temp files and folders (:issue:`2570`), - fixed ProjectUtilsTest on OS X (:issue:`2569`), + fixed ProjectUtilsTest on macOS (:issue:`2569`), use portable pypy for Linux on Travis CI (:issue:`2710`) - Separate building request from ``_requests_to_follow`` in CrawlSpider (:issue:`2562`) - Remove “Python 3 progress” badge (:issue:`2567`) @@ -275,7 +2637,8 @@ Cleanups & Refactoring fixes :issue:`2560`) - Add omitted ``self`` arguments in default project middleware template (:issue:`2595`) - Remove redundant ``slot.add_request()`` call in ExecutionEngine (:issue:`2617`) -- Catch more specific ``os.error`` exception in :class:`FSFilesStore` (:issue:`2644`) +- Catch more specific ``os.error`` exception in + ``scrapy.pipelines.files.FSFilesStore`` (:issue:`2644`) - Change "localhost" test server certificate (:issue:`2720`) - Remove unused ``MEMUSAGE_REPORT`` setting (:issue:`2576`) @@ -292,7 +2655,8 @@ Documentation (:issue:`2477`, fixes :issue:`2475`) - FAQ: rewrite note on Python 3 support on Windows (:issue:`2690`) - Rearrange selector sections (:issue:`2705`) -- Remove ``__nonzero__`` from :class:`SelectorList` docs (:issue:`2683`) +- Remove ``__nonzero__`` from :class:`~scrapy.selector.SelectorList` + docs (:issue:`2683`) - Mention how to disable request filtering in documentation of :setting:`DUPEFILTER_CLASS` setting (:issue:`2714`) - Add sphinx_rtd_theme to docs setup readme (:issue:`2668`) @@ -300,6 +2664,8 @@ Documentation - Clarify ``allowed_domains`` example (:issue:`2670`) +.. _release-1.3.3: + Scrapy 1.3.3 (2017-03-10) ------------------------- @@ -312,6 +2678,7 @@ Bug fixes A new setting is introduced to toggle between warning or exception if needed ; see :setting:`SPIDER_LOADER_WARN_ONLY` for details. +.. _release-1.3.2: Scrapy 1.3.2 (2017-02-13) ------------------------- @@ -323,6 +2690,8 @@ Bug fixes - Use consistent selectors for author field in tutorial (:issue:`2551`). - Fix TLS compatibility in Twisted 17+ (:issue:`2558`) +.. _release-1.3.1: + Scrapy 1.3.1 (2017-02-08) ------------------------- @@ -344,15 +2713,15 @@ Bug fixes - Fix :command:`view` command ; it was a regression in v1.3.0 (:issue:`2503`). - Fix tests regarding ``*_EXPIRES settings`` with Files/Images pipelines (:issue:`2460`). - Fix name of generated pipeline class when using basic project template (:issue:`2466`). -- Fix compatiblity with Twisted 17+ (:issue:`2496`, :issue:`2528`). +- Fix compatibility with Twisted 17+ (:issue:`2496`, :issue:`2528`). - Fix ``scrapy.Item`` inheritance on Python 3.6 (:issue:`2511`). - Enforce numeric values for components order in ``SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES``, - ``DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES``, ``EXTENIONS`` and ``SPIDER_CONTRACTS`` (:issue:`2420`). + ``DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES``, ``EXTENSIONS`` and ``SPIDER_CONTRACTS`` (:issue:`2420`). Documentation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- Reword Code of Coduct section and upgrade to Contributor Covenant v1.4 +- Reword Code of Conduct section and upgrade to Contributor Covenant v1.4 (:issue:`2469`). - Clarify that passing spider arguments converts them to spider attributes (:issue:`2483`). @@ -366,11 +2735,13 @@ Documentation Cleanups ~~~~~~~~ -- Remove reduntant check in ``MetaRefreshMiddleware`` (:issue:`2542`). +- Remove redundant check in ``MetaRefreshMiddleware`` (:issue:`2542`). - Faster checks in ``LinkExtractor`` for allow/deny patterns (:issue:`2538`). - Remove dead code supporting old Twisted versions (:issue:`2544`). +.. _release-1.3.0: + Scrapy 1.3.0 (2016-12-21) ------------------------- @@ -390,13 +2761,13 @@ New Features - ``MailSender`` now accepts single strings as values for ``to`` and ``cc`` arguments (:issue:`2272`) - ``scrapy fetch url``, ``scrapy shell url`` and ``fetch(url)`` inside - scrapy shell now follow HTTP redirections by default (:issue:`2290`); + Scrapy shell now follow HTTP redirections by default (:issue:`2290`); See :command:`fetch` and :command:`shell` for details. - ``HttpErrorMiddleware`` now logs errors with ``INFO`` level instead of ``DEBUG``; - this is technically **backwards incompatible** so please check your log parsers. + this is technically **backward incompatible** so please check your log parsers. - By default, logger names now use a long-form path, e.g. ``[scrapy.extensions.logstats]``, instead of the shorter "top-level" variant of prior releases (e.g. ``[scrapy]``); - this is **backwards incompatible** if you have log parsers expecting the short + this is **backward incompatible** if you have log parsers expecting the short logger name part. You can switch back to short logger names using :setting:`LOG_SHORT_NAMES` set to ``True``. @@ -410,6 +2781,7 @@ Dependencies & Cleanups - ``ChunkedTransferMiddleware`` is deprecated and removed from the default downloader middlewares. +.. _release-1.2.3: Scrapy 1.2.3 (2017-03-03) ------------------------- @@ -417,6 +2789,8 @@ Scrapy 1.2.3 (2017-03-03) - Packaging fix: disallow unsupported Twisted versions in setup.py +.. _release-1.2.2: + Scrapy 1.2.2 (2016-12-06) ------------------------- @@ -452,6 +2826,8 @@ Other changes .. _conda-forge: https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/scrapy +.. _release-1.2.1: + Scrapy 1.2.1 (2016-10-21) ------------------------- @@ -476,6 +2852,8 @@ Other changes - Removed ``www.`` from ``start_urls`` in built-in spider templates (:issue:`2299`). +.. _release-1.2.0: + Scrapy 1.2.0 (2016-10-03) ------------------------- @@ -500,11 +2878,11 @@ Bug fixes ~~~~~~~~~ - DefaultRequestHeaders middleware now runs before UserAgent middleware - (:issue:`2088`). **Warning: this is technically backwards incompatible**, + (:issue:`2088`). **Warning: this is technically backward incompatible**, though we consider this a bug fix. - HTTP cache extension and plugins that use the ``.scrapy`` data directory now work outside projects (:issue:`1581`). **Warning: this is technically - backwards incompatible**, though we consider this a bug fix. + backward incompatible**, though we consider this a bug fix. - ``Selector`` does not allow passing both ``response`` and ``text`` anymore (:issue:`2153`). - Fixed logging of wrong callback name with ``scrapy parse`` (:issue:`2169`). @@ -512,7 +2890,7 @@ Bug fixes - Fix for selected callbacks when using ``CrawlSpider`` with :command:`scrapy parse ` (:issue:`2225`). - Fix for invalid JSON and XML files when spider yields no items (:issue:`872`). -- Implement ``flush()`` fpr ``StreamLogger`` avoiding a warning in logs (:issue:`2125`). +- Implement ``flush()`` for ``StreamLogger`` avoiding a warning in logs (:issue:`2125`). Refactoring ~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -539,17 +2917,19 @@ Documentation - Grammar fixes: :issue:`2128`, :issue:`1566`. - Download stats badge removed from README (:issue:`2160`). -- New scrapy :ref:`architecture diagram ` (:issue:`2165`). +- New Scrapy :ref:`architecture diagram ` (:issue:`2165`). - Updated ``Response`` parameters documentation (:issue:`2197`). - Reworded misleading :setting:`RANDOMIZE_DOWNLOAD_DELAY` description (:issue:`2190`). - Add StackOverflow as a support channel (:issue:`2257`). +.. _release-1.1.4: Scrapy 1.1.4 (2017-03-03) ------------------------- - Packaging fix: disallow unsupported Twisted versions in setup.py +.. _release-1.1.3: Scrapy 1.1.3 (2016-09-22) ------------------------- @@ -567,6 +2947,7 @@ Documentation rewritten to use http://toscrape.com websites (:issue:`2236`, :issue:`2249`, :issue:`2252`). +.. _release-1.1.2: Scrapy 1.1.2 (2016-08-18) ------------------------- @@ -581,6 +2962,7 @@ Bug fixes - :setting:`IMAGES_EXPIRES` default value set back to 90 (the regression was introduced in 1.1.1) +.. _release-1.1.1: Scrapy 1.1.1 (2016-07-13) ------------------------- @@ -625,7 +3007,7 @@ Documentation - Use "url" variable in downloader middleware example (:issue:`2015`) - Grammar fixes (:issue:`2054`, :issue:`2120`) - New FAQ entry on using BeautifulSoup in spider callbacks (:issue:`2048`) -- Add notes about scrapy not working on Windows with Python 3 (:issue:`2060`) +- Add notes about Scrapy not working on Windows with Python 3 (:issue:`2060`) - Encourage complete titles in pull requests (:issue:`2026`) Tests @@ -633,6 +3015,7 @@ Tests - Upgrade py.test requirement on Travis CI and Pin pytest-cov to 2.2.1 (:issue:`2095`) +.. _release-1.1.0: Scrapy 1.1.0 (2016-05-11) ------------------------- @@ -674,18 +3057,18 @@ This 1.1 release brings a lot of interesting features and bug fixes: this behavior, update :setting:`ROBOTSTXT_OBEY` in ``settings.py`` file after creating a new project. - Exporters now work on unicode, instead of bytes by default (:issue:`1080`). - If you use ``PythonItemExporter``, you may want to update your code to - disable binary mode which is now deprecated. + If you use :class:`~scrapy.exporters.PythonItemExporter`, you may want to + update your code to disable binary mode which is now deprecated. - Accept XML node names containing dots as valid (:issue:`1533`). - When uploading files or images to S3 (with ``FilesPipeline`` or ``ImagesPipeline``), the default ACL policy is now "private" instead - of "public" **Warning: backwards incompatible!**. + of "public" **Warning: backward incompatible!**. You can use :setting:`FILES_STORE_S3_ACL` to change it. - We've reimplemented ``canonicalize_url()`` for more correct output, especially for URLs with non-ASCII characters (:issue:`1947`). - This could change link extractors output compared to previous scrapy versions. + This could change link extractors output compared to previous Scrapy versions. This may also invalidate some cache entries you could still have from pre-1.1 runs. - **Warning: backwards incompatible!**. + **Warning: backward incompatible!**. Keep reading for more details on other improvements and bug fixes. @@ -718,7 +3101,7 @@ Additional New Features and Enhancements - Support for bpython and configure preferred Python shell via ``SCRAPY_PYTHON_SHELL`` (:issue:`1100`, :issue:`1444`). - Support URLs without scheme (:issue:`1498`) - **Warning: backwards incompatible!** + **Warning: backward incompatible!** - Bring back support for relative file path (:issue:`1710`, :issue:`1550`). - Added :setting:`MEMUSAGE_CHECK_INTERVAL_SECONDS` setting to change default check @@ -783,7 +3166,7 @@ Deprecations and Removals + ``scrapy.utils.datatypes.SiteNode`` - The previously bundled ``scrapy.xlib.pydispatch`` library was deprecated and - replaced by `pydispatcher `_. + replaced by `pydispatcher `_. Relocations @@ -801,7 +3184,7 @@ Bugfixes ~~~~~~~~ - Scrapy does not retry requests that got a ``HTTP 400 Bad Request`` - response anymore (:issue:`1289`). **Warning: backwards incompatible!** + response anymore (:issue:`1289`). **Warning: backward incompatible!** - Support empty password for http_proxy config (:issue:`1274`). - Interpret ``application/x-json`` as ``TextResponse`` (:issue:`1333`). - Support link rel attribute with multiple values (:issue:`1201`). @@ -812,9 +3195,9 @@ Bugfixes - Makes ``_monkeypatches`` more robust (:issue:`1634`). - Fixed bug on ``XMLItemExporter`` with non-string fields in items (:issue:`1738`). -- Fixed startproject command in OS X (:issue:`1635`). -- Fixed PythonItemExporter and CSVExporter for non-string item - types (:issue:`1737`). +- Fixed startproject command in macOS (:issue:`1635`). +- Fixed :class:`~scrapy.exporters.PythonItemExporter` and CSVExporter for + non-string item types (:issue:`1737`). - Various logging related fixes (:issue:`1294`, :issue:`1419`, :issue:`1263`, :issue:`1624`, :issue:`1654`, :issue:`1722`, :issue:`1726` and :issue:`1303`). - Fixed bug in ``utils.template.render_templatefile()`` (:issue:`1212`). @@ -822,12 +3205,14 @@ Bugfixes - HTTPS+CONNECT tunnels could get mixed up when using multiple proxies to same remote host (:issue:`1912`). +.. _release-1.0.7: Scrapy 1.0.7 (2017-03-03) ------------------------- - Packaging fix: disallow unsupported Twisted versions in setup.py +.. _release-1.0.6: Scrapy 1.0.6 (2016-05-04) ------------------------- @@ -837,6 +3222,7 @@ Scrapy 1.0.6 (2016-05-04) - DOC: Support for Sphinx 1.4+ (:issue:`1893`) - DOC: Consistency in selectors examples (:issue:`1869`) +.. _release-1.0.5: Scrapy 1.0.5 (2016-02-04) ------------------------- @@ -846,6 +3232,7 @@ Scrapy 1.0.5 (2016-02-04) - DOC: Fixed typos in tutorial and media-pipeline (:commit:`808a9ea` and :commit:`803bd87`) - DOC: Add AjaxCrawlMiddleware to DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES_BASE in settings docs (:commit:`aa94121`) +.. _release-1.0.4: Scrapy 1.0.4 (2015-12-30) ------------------------- @@ -875,13 +3262,13 @@ Scrapy 1.0.4 (2015-12-30) - fix ValueError: Invalid XPath: //div/[id="not-exists"]/text() on selectors.rst (:commit:`ca8d60f`) - Typos corrections (:commit:`7067117`) - fix typos in downloader-middleware.rst and exceptions.rst, middlware -> middleware (:commit:`32f115c`) -- Add note to ubuntu install section about debian compatibility (:commit:`23fda69`) -- Replace alternative OSX install workaround with virtualenv (:commit:`98b63ee`) +- Add note to Ubuntu install section about Debian compatibility (:commit:`23fda69`) +- Replace alternative macOS install workaround with virtualenv (:commit:`98b63ee`) - Reference Homebrew's homepage for installation instructions (:commit:`1925db1`) - Add oldest supported tox version to contributing docs (:commit:`5d10d6d`) - Note in install docs about pip being already included in python>=2.7.9 (:commit:`85c980e`) - Add non-python dependencies to Ubuntu install section in the docs (:commit:`fbd010d`) -- Add OS X installation section to docs (:commit:`d8f4cba`) +- Add macOS installation section to docs (:commit:`d8f4cba`) - DOC(ENH): specify path to rtd theme explicitly (:commit:`de73b1a`) - minor: scrapy.Spider docs grammar (:commit:`1ddcc7b`) - Make common practices sample code match the comments (:commit:`1b85bcf`) @@ -892,19 +3279,23 @@ Scrapy 1.0.4 (2015-12-30) - Merge pull request #1513 from mgedmin/patch-2 (:commit:`5d4daf8`) - Typo (:commit:`f8d0682`) - Fix list formatting (:commit:`5f83a93`) -- fix scrapy squeue tests after recent changes to queuelib (:commit:`3365c01`) +- fix Scrapy squeue tests after recent changes to queuelib (:commit:`3365c01`) - Merge pull request #1475 from rweindl/patch-1 (:commit:`2d688cd`) - Update tutorial.rst (:commit:`fbc1f25`) - Merge pull request #1449 from rhoekman/patch-1 (:commit:`7d6538c`) - Small grammatical change (:commit:`8752294`) - Add openssl version to version command (:commit:`13c45ac`) +.. _release-1.0.3: + Scrapy 1.0.3 (2015-08-11) ------------------------- -- add service_identity to scrapy install_requires (:commit:`cbc2501`) +- add service_identity to Scrapy install_requires (:commit:`cbc2501`) - Workaround for travis#296 (:commit:`66af9cd`) +.. _release-1.0.2: + Scrapy 1.0.2 (2015-08-06) ------------------------- @@ -915,6 +3306,8 @@ Scrapy 1.0.2 (2015-08-06) - Fixed typos (:commit:`a9ae7b0`) - Fix doc reference. (:commit:`7c8a4fe`) +.. _release-1.0.1: + Scrapy 1.0.1 (2015-07-01) ------------------------- @@ -922,9 +3315,11 @@ Scrapy 1.0.1 (2015-07-01) - include tests/ to source distribution in MANIFEST.in (:commit:`eca227e`) - DOC Fix SelectJmes documentation (:commit:`b8567bc`) - DOC Bring Ubuntu and Archlinux outside of Windows subsection (:commit:`392233f`) -- DOC remove version suffix from ubuntu package (:commit:`5303c66`) +- DOC remove version suffix from Ubuntu package (:commit:`5303c66`) - DOC Update release date for 1.0 (:commit:`c89fa29`) +.. _release-1.0.0: + Scrapy 1.0.0 (2015-06-19) ------------------------- @@ -1039,12 +3434,14 @@ until it reaches a stable status. See more examples for scripts running Scrapy: :ref:`topics-practices` +.. _module-relocations: + Module Relocations ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There’s been a large rearrangement of modules trying to improve the general structure of Scrapy. Main changes were separating various subpackages into -new projects and dissolving both `scrapy.contrib` and `scrapy.contrib_exp` +new projects and dissolving both ``scrapy.contrib`` and ``scrapy.contrib_exp`` into top level packages. Backward compatibility was kept among internal relocations, while importing deprecated modules expect warnings indicating their new place. @@ -1075,7 +3472,7 @@ Outsourced packages | | /scrapy-plugins/scrapy-jsonrpc>`_ | +-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ -`scrapy.contrib_exp` and `scrapy.contrib` dissolutions +``scrapy.contrib_exp`` and ``scrapy.contrib`` dissolutions +-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | Old location | New location | @@ -1287,7 +3684,7 @@ Code refactoring (:issue:`1078`) - Pydispatch pep8 (:issue:`992`) - Removed unused 'load=False' parameter from walk_modules() (:issue:`871`) -- For consistency, use `job_dir` helper in `SpiderState` extension. +- For consistency, use ``job_dir`` helper in ``SpiderState`` extension. (:issue:`805`) - rename "sflo" local variables to less cryptic "log_observer" (:issue:`775`) @@ -1356,7 +3753,7 @@ Scrapy 0.24.3 (2014-08-09) - adding some xpath tips to selectors docs (:commit:`2d103e0`) - fix tests to account for https://github.com/scrapy/w3lib/pull/23 (:commit:`f8d366a`) - get_func_args maximum recursion fix #728 (:commit:`81344ea`) -- Updated input/ouput processor example according to #560. (:commit:`f7c4ea8`) +- Updated input/output processor example according to #560. (:commit:`f7c4ea8`) - Fixed Python syntax in tutorial. (:commit:`db59ed9`) - Add test case for tunneling proxy (:commit:`f090260`) - Bugfix for leaking Proxy-Authorization header to remote host when using tunneling (:commit:`d8793af`) @@ -1371,13 +3768,13 @@ Scrapy 0.24.2 (2014-07-08) - Use a mutable mapping to proxy deprecated settings.overrides and settings.defaults attribute (:commit:`e5e8133`) - there is not support for python3 yet (:commit:`3cd6146`) -- Update python compatible version set to debian packages (:commit:`fa5d76b`) +- Update python compatible version set to Debian packages (:commit:`fa5d76b`) - DOC fix formatting in release notes (:commit:`c6a9e20`) Scrapy 0.24.1 (2014-06-27) -------------------------- -- Fix deprecated CrawlerSettings and increase backwards compatibility with +- Fix deprecated CrawlerSettings and increase backward compatibility with .defaults attribute (:commit:`8e3f20a`) @@ -1389,21 +3786,21 @@ Enhancements - Improve Scrapy top-level namespace (:issue:`494`, :issue:`684`) - Add selector shortcuts to responses (:issue:`554`, :issue:`690`) -- Add new lxml based LinkExtractor to replace unmantained SgmlLinkExtractor +- Add new lxml based LinkExtractor to replace unmaintained SgmlLinkExtractor (:issue:`559`, :issue:`761`, :issue:`763`) - Cleanup settings API - part of per-spider settings **GSoC project** (:issue:`737`) - Add UTF8 encoding header to templates (:issue:`688`, :issue:`762`) - Telnet console now binds to 127.0.0.1 by default (:issue:`699`) -- Update debian/ubuntu install instructions (:issue:`509`, :issue:`549`) +- Update Debian/Ubuntu install instructions (:issue:`509`, :issue:`549`) - Disable smart strings in lxml XPath evaluations (:issue:`535`) - Restore filesystem based cache as default for http cache middleware (:issue:`541`, :issue:`500`, :issue:`571`) - Expose current crawler in Scrapy shell (:issue:`557`) - Improve testsuite comparing CSV and XML exporters (:issue:`570`) -- New `offsite/filtered` and `offsite/domains` stats (:issue:`566`) +- New ``offsite/filtered`` and ``offsite/domains`` stats (:issue:`566`) - Support process_links as generator in CrawlSpider (:issue:`555`) - Verbose logging and new stats counters for DupeFilter (:issue:`553`) -- Add a mimetype parameter to `MailSender.send()` (:issue:`602`) +- Add a mimetype parameter to ``MailSender.send()`` (:issue:`602`) - Generalize file pipeline log messages (:issue:`622`) - Replace unencodeable codepoints with html entities in SGMLLinkExtractor (:issue:`565`) - Converted SEP documents to rst format (:issue:`629`, :issue:`630`, @@ -1422,21 +3819,21 @@ Enhancements - Make scrapy.version_info a tuple of integers (:issue:`681`, :issue:`692`) - Infer exporter's output format from filename extensions (:issue:`546`, :issue:`659`, :issue:`760`) -- Support case-insensitive domains in `url_is_from_any_domain()` (:issue:`693`) +- Support case-insensitive domains in ``url_is_from_any_domain()`` (:issue:`693`) - Remove pep8 warnings in project and spider templates (:issue:`698`) -- Tests and docs for `request_fingerprint` function (:issue:`597`) -- Update SEP-19 for GSoC project `per-spider settings` (:issue:`705`) +- Tests and docs for ``request_fingerprint`` function (:issue:`597`) +- Update SEP-19 for GSoC project ``per-spider settings`` (:issue:`705`) - Set exit code to non-zero when contracts fails (:issue:`727`) -- Add a setting to control what class is instanciated as Downloader component +- Add a setting to control what class is instantiated as Downloader component (:issue:`738`) -- Pass response in `item_dropped` signal (:issue:`724`) -- Improve `scrapy check` contracts command (:issue:`733`, :issue:`752`) -- Document `spider.closed()` shortcut (:issue:`719`) -- Document `request_scheduled` signal (:issue:`746`) +- Pass response in ``item_dropped`` signal (:issue:`724`) +- Improve ``scrapy check`` contracts command (:issue:`733`, :issue:`752`) +- Document ``spider.closed()`` shortcut (:issue:`719`) +- Document ``request_scheduled`` signal (:issue:`746`) - Add a note about reporting security issues (:issue:`697`) - Add LevelDB http cache storage backend (:issue:`626`, :issue:`500`) -- Sort spider list output of `scrapy list` command (:issue:`742`) -- Multiple documentation enhancemens and fixes +- Sort spider list output of ``scrapy list`` command (:issue:`742`) +- Multiple documentation enhancements and fixes (:issue:`575`, :issue:`587`, :issue:`590`, :issue:`596`, :issue:`610`, :issue:`617`, :issue:`618`, :issue:`627`, :issue:`613`, :issue:`643`, :issue:`654`, :issue:`675`, :issue:`663`, :issue:`711`, :issue:`714`) @@ -1481,19 +3878,19 @@ Scrapy 0.22.1 (released 2014-02-08) - BaseSgmlLinkExtractor: Added unit test of a link with an inner tag (:commit:`c1cb418`) - BaseSgmlLinkExtractor: Fixed unknown_endtag() so that it only set current_link=None when the end tag match the opening tag (:commit:`7e4d627`) - Fix tests for Travis-CI build (:commit:`76c7e20`) -- replace unencodeable codepoints with html entities. fixes #562 and #285 (:commit:`5f87b17`) +- replace unencodable codepoints with html entities. fixes #562 and #285 (:commit:`5f87b17`) - RegexLinkExtractor: encode URL unicode value when creating Links (:commit:`d0ee545`) - Updated the tutorial crawl output with latest output. (:commit:`8da65de`) - Updated shell docs with the crawler reference and fixed the actual shell output. (:commit:`875b9ab`) - PEP8 minor edits. (:commit:`f89efaf`) -- Expose current crawler in the scrapy shell. (:commit:`5349cec`) +- Expose current crawler in the Scrapy shell. (:commit:`5349cec`) - Unused re import and PEP8 minor edits. (:commit:`387f414`) - Ignore None's values when using the ItemLoader. (:commit:`0632546`) - DOC Fixed HTTPCACHE_STORAGE typo in the default value which is now Filesystem instead Dbm. (:commit:`cde9a8c`) -- show ubuntu setup instructions as literal code (:commit:`fb5c9c5`) +- show Ubuntu setup instructions as literal code (:commit:`fb5c9c5`) - Update Ubuntu installation instructions (:commit:`70fb105`) - Merge pull request #550 from stray-leone/patch-1 (:commit:`6f70b6a`) -- modify the version of scrapy ubuntu package (:commit:`725900d`) +- modify the version of Scrapy Ubuntu package (:commit:`725900d`) - fix 0.22.0 release date (:commit:`af0219a`) - fix typos in news.rst and remove (not released yet) header (:commit:`b7f58f4`) @@ -1503,23 +3900,23 @@ Scrapy 0.22.0 (released 2014-01-17) Enhancements ~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- [**Backwards incompatible**] Switched HTTPCacheMiddleware backend to filesystem (:issue:`541`) - To restore old backend set `HTTPCACHE_STORAGE` to `scrapy.contrib.httpcache.DbmCacheStorage` +- [**Backward incompatible**] Switched HTTPCacheMiddleware backend to filesystem (:issue:`541`) + To restore old backend set ``HTTPCACHE_STORAGE`` to ``scrapy.contrib.httpcache.DbmCacheStorage`` - Proxy \https:// urls using CONNECT method (:issue:`392`, :issue:`397`) - Add a middleware to crawl ajax crawleable pages as defined by google (:issue:`343`) - Rename scrapy.spider.BaseSpider to scrapy.spider.Spider (:issue:`510`, :issue:`519`) - Selectors register EXSLT namespaces by default (:issue:`472`) - Unify item loaders similar to selectors renaming (:issue:`461`) -- Make `RFPDupeFilter` class easily subclassable (:issue:`533`) +- Make ``RFPDupeFilter`` class easily subclassable (:issue:`533`) - Improve test coverage and forthcoming Python 3 support (:issue:`525`) - Promote startup info on settings and middleware to INFO level (:issue:`520`) -- Support partials in `get_func_args` util (:issue:`506`, issue:`504`) -- Allow running indiviual tests via tox (:issue:`503`) +- Support partials in ``get_func_args`` util (:issue:`506`, issue:`504`) +- Allow running individual tests via tox (:issue:`503`) - Update extensions ignored by link extractors (:issue:`498`) - Add middleware methods to get files/images/thumbs paths (:issue:`490`) - Improve offsite middleware tests (:issue:`478`) - Add a way to skip default Referer header set by RefererMiddleware (:issue:`475`) -- Do not send `x-gzip` in default `Accept-Encoding` header (:issue:`469`) +- Do not send ``x-gzip`` in default ``Accept-Encoding`` header (:issue:`469`) - Support defining http error handling using settings (:issue:`466`) - Use modern python idioms wherever you find legacies (:issue:`497`) - Improve and correct documentation @@ -1530,14 +3927,14 @@ Fixes ~~~~~ - Update Selector class imports in CrawlSpider template (:issue:`484`) -- Fix unexistent reference to `engine.slots` (:issue:`464`) -- Do not try to call `body_as_unicode()` on a non-TextResponse instance (:issue:`462`) +- Fix unexistent reference to ``engine.slots`` (:issue:`464`) +- Do not try to call ``body_as_unicode()`` on a non-TextResponse instance (:issue:`462`) - Warn when subclassing XPathItemLoader, previously it only warned on instantiation. (:issue:`523`) - Warn when subclassing XPathSelector, previously it only warned on instantiation. (:issue:`537`) - Multiple fixes to memory stats (:issue:`531`, :issue:`530`, :issue:`529`) -- Fix overriding url in `FormRequest.from_response()` (:issue:`507`) +- Fix overriding url in ``FormRequest.from_response()`` (:issue:`507`) - Fix tests runner under pip 1.5 (:issue:`513`) - Fix logging error when spider name is unicode (:issue:`479`) @@ -1564,24 +3961,24 @@ Enhancements (modifying them had been deprecated for a long time) - :setting:`ITEM_PIPELINES` is now defined as a dict (instead of a list) - Sitemap spider can fetch alternate URLs (:issue:`360`) -- `Selector.remove_namespaces()` now remove namespaces from element's attributes. (:issue:`416`) +- ``Selector.remove_namespaces()`` now remove namespaces from element's attributes. (:issue:`416`) - Paved the road for Python 3.3+ (:issue:`435`, :issue:`436`, :issue:`431`, :issue:`452`) - New item exporter using native python types with nesting support (:issue:`366`) - Tune HTTP1.1 pool size so it matches concurrency defined by settings (:commit:`b43b5f575`) - scrapy.mail.MailSender now can connect over TLS or upgrade using STARTTLS (:issue:`327`) - New FilesPipeline with functionality factored out from ImagesPipeline (:issue:`370`, :issue:`409`) - Recommend Pillow instead of PIL for image handling (:issue:`317`) -- Added debian packages for Ubuntu quantal and raring (:commit:`86230c0`) +- Added Debian packages for Ubuntu Quantal and Raring (:commit:`86230c0`) - Mock server (used for tests) can listen for HTTPS requests (:issue:`410`) - Remove multi spider support from multiple core components (:issue:`422`, :issue:`421`, :issue:`420`, :issue:`419`, :issue:`423`, :issue:`418`) -- Travis-CI now tests Scrapy changes against development versions of `w3lib` and `queuelib` python packages. +- Travis-CI now tests Scrapy changes against development versions of ``w3lib`` and ``queuelib`` python packages. - Add pypy 2.1 to continuous integration tests (:commit:`ecfa7431`) - Pylinted, pep8 and removed old-style exceptions from source (:issue:`430`, :issue:`432`) - Use importlib for parametric imports (:issue:`445`) - Handle a regression introduced in Python 2.7.5 that affects XmlItemExporter (:issue:`372`) - Bugfix crawling shutdown on SIGINT (:issue:`450`) -- Do not submit `reset` type inputs in FormRequest.from_response (:commit:`b326b87`) +- Do not submit ``reset`` type inputs in FormRequest.from_response (:commit:`b326b87`) - Do not silence download errors when request errback raises an exception (:commit:`684cfc0`) Bugfixes @@ -1590,23 +3987,23 @@ Bugfixes - Fix tests under Django 1.6 (:commit:`b6bed44c`) - Lot of bugfixes to retry middleware under disconnections using HTTP 1.1 download handler - Fix inconsistencies among Twisted releases (:issue:`406`) -- Fix scrapy shell bugs (:issue:`418`, :issue:`407`) +- Fix Scrapy shell bugs (:issue:`418`, :issue:`407`) - Fix invalid variable name in setup.py (:issue:`429`) - Fix tutorial references (:issue:`387`) - Improve request-response docs (:issue:`391`) - Improve best practices docs (:issue:`399`, :issue:`400`, :issue:`401`, :issue:`402`) - Improve django integration docs (:issue:`404`) -- Document `bindaddress` request meta (:commit:`37c24e01d7`) -- Improve `Request` class documentation (:issue:`226`) +- Document ``bindaddress`` request meta (:commit:`37c24e01d7`) +- Improve ``Request`` class documentation (:issue:`226`) Other ~~~~~ - Dropped Python 2.6 support (:issue:`448`) -- Add `cssselect`_ python package as install dependency +- Add :doc:`cssselect ` python package as install dependency - Drop libxml2 and multi selector's backend support, `lxml`_ is required from now on. - Minimum Twisted version increased to 10.0.0, dropped Twisted 8.0 support. -- Running test suite now requires `mock` python library (:issue:`390`) +- Running test suite now requires ``mock`` python library (:issue:`390`) Thanks @@ -1660,7 +4057,7 @@ Scrapy 0.18.3 (released 2013-10-03) Scrapy 0.18.2 (released 2013-09-03) ----------------------------------- -- Backport `scrapy check` command fixes and backward compatible multi +- Backport ``scrapy check`` command fixes and backward compatible multi crawler process(:issue:`339`) Scrapy 0.18.1 (released 2013-08-27) @@ -1672,15 +4069,15 @@ Scrapy 0.18.1 (released 2013-08-27) - test PotentiaDataLoss errors on unbound responses (:commit:`b15470d`) - Treat responses without content-length or Transfer-Encoding as good responses (:commit:`c4bf324`) - do no include ResponseFailed if http11 handler is not enabled (:commit:`6cbe684`) -- New HTTP client wraps connection losts in ResponseFailed exception. fix #373 (:commit:`1a20bba`) +- New HTTP client wraps connection lost in ResponseFailed exception. fix #373 (:commit:`1a20bba`) - limit travis-ci build matrix (:commit:`3b01bb8`) - Merge pull request #375 from peterarenot/patch-1 (:commit:`fa766d7`) - Fixed so it refers to the correct folder (:commit:`3283809`) -- added quantal & raring to support ubuntu releases (:commit:`1411923`) +- added Quantal & Raring to support Ubuntu releases (:commit:`1411923`) - fix retry middleware which didn't retry certain connection errors after the upgrade to http1 client, closes GH-373 (:commit:`bb35ed0`) - fix XmlItemExporter in Python 2.7.4 and 2.7.5 (:commit:`de3e451`) - minor updates to 0.18 release notes (:commit:`c45e5f1`) -- fix contributters list format (:commit:`0b60031`) +- fix contributors list format (:commit:`0b60031`) Scrapy 0.18.0 (released 2013-08-09) ----------------------------------- @@ -1689,46 +4086,46 @@ Scrapy 0.18.0 (released 2013-08-09) - Handle GET parameters for AJAX crawleable urls (:commit:`3fe2a32`) - Use lxml recover option to parse sitemaps (:issue:`347`) - Bugfix cookie merging by hostname and not by netloc (:issue:`352`) -- Support disabling `HttpCompressionMiddleware` using a flag setting (:issue:`359`) -- Support xml namespaces using `iternodes` parser in `XMLFeedSpider` (:issue:`12`) -- Support `dont_cache` request meta flag (:issue:`19`) -- Bugfix `scrapy.utils.gz.gunzip` broken by changes in python 2.7.4 (:commit:`4dc76e`) -- Bugfix url encoding on `SgmlLinkExtractor` (:issue:`24`) -- Bugfix `TakeFirst` processor shouldn't discard zero (0) value (:issue:`59`) +- Support disabling ``HttpCompressionMiddleware`` using a flag setting (:issue:`359`) +- Support xml namespaces using ``iternodes`` parser in ``XMLFeedSpider`` (:issue:`12`) +- Support ``dont_cache`` request meta flag (:issue:`19`) +- Bugfix ``scrapy.utils.gz.gunzip`` broken by changes in python 2.7.4 (:commit:`4dc76e`) +- Bugfix url encoding on ``SgmlLinkExtractor`` (:issue:`24`) +- Bugfix ``TakeFirst`` processor shouldn't discard zero (0) value (:issue:`59`) - Support nested items in xml exporter (:issue:`66`) - Improve cookies handling performance (:issue:`77`) - Log dupe filtered requests once (:issue:`105`) - Split redirection middleware into status and meta based middlewares (:issue:`78`) - Use HTTP1.1 as default downloader handler (:issue:`109` and :issue:`318`) -- Support xpath form selection on `FormRequest.from_response` (:issue:`185`) -- Bugfix unicode decoding error on `SgmlLinkExtractor` (:issue:`199`) +- Support xpath form selection on ``FormRequest.from_response`` (:issue:`185`) +- Bugfix unicode decoding error on ``SgmlLinkExtractor`` (:issue:`199`) - Bugfix signal dispatching on pypi interpreter (:issue:`205`) - Improve request delay and concurrency handling (:issue:`206`) -- Add RFC2616 cache policy to `HttpCacheMiddleware` (:issue:`212`) +- Add RFC2616 cache policy to ``HttpCacheMiddleware`` (:issue:`212`) - Allow customization of messages logged by engine (:issue:`214`) -- Multiples improvements to `DjangoItem` (:issue:`217`, :issue:`218`, :issue:`221`) +- Multiples improvements to ``DjangoItem`` (:issue:`217`, :issue:`218`, :issue:`221`) - Extend Scrapy commands using setuptools entry points (:issue:`260`) -- Allow spider `allowed_domains` value to be set/tuple (:issue:`261`) -- Support `settings.getdict` (:issue:`269`) -- Simplify internal `scrapy.core.scraper` slot handling (:issue:`271`) -- Added `Item.copy` (:issue:`290`) +- Allow spider ``allowed_domains`` value to be set/tuple (:issue:`261`) +- Support ``settings.getdict`` (:issue:`269`) +- Simplify internal ``scrapy.core.scraper`` slot handling (:issue:`271`) +- Added ``Item.copy`` (:issue:`290`) - Collect idle downloader slots (:issue:`297`) -- Add `ftp://` scheme downloader handler (:issue:`329`) +- Add ``ftp://`` scheme downloader handler (:issue:`329`) - Added downloader benchmark webserver and spider tools :ref:`benchmarking` -- Moved persistent (on disk) queues to a separate project (queuelib_) which scrapy now depends on -- Add scrapy commands using external libraries (:issue:`260`) +- Moved persistent (on disk) queues to a separate project (queuelib_) which Scrapy now depends on +- Add Scrapy commands using external libraries (:issue:`260`) - Added ``--pdb`` option to ``scrapy`` command line tool -- Added :meth:`XPathSelector.remove_namespaces` which allows to remove all namespaces from XML documents for convenience (to work with namespace-less XPaths). Documented in :ref:`topics-selectors`. +- Added :meth:`XPathSelector.remove_namespaces ` which allows to remove all namespaces from XML documents for convenience (to work with namespace-less XPaths). Documented in :ref:`topics-selectors`. - Several improvements to spider contracts - New default middleware named MetaRefreshMiddldeware that handles meta-refresh html tag redirections, - MetaRefreshMiddldeware and RedirectMiddleware have different priorities to address #62 - added from_crawler method to spiders - added system tests with mock server -- more improvements to Mac OS compatibility (thanks Alex Cepoi) +- more improvements to macOS compatibility (thanks Alex Cepoi) - several more cleanups to singletons and multi-spider support (thanks Nicolas Ramirez) - support custom download slots - added --spider option to "shell" command. -- log overridden settings when scrapy starts +- log overridden settings when Scrapy starts Thanks to everyone who contribute to this release. Here is a list of contributors sorted by number of commits:: @@ -1777,7 +4174,7 @@ contributors sorted by number of commits:: Scrapy 0.16.5 (released 2013-05-30) ----------------------------------- -- obey request method when scrapy deploy is redirected to a new endpoint (:commit:`8c4fcee`) +- obey request method when Scrapy deploy is redirected to a new endpoint (:commit:`8c4fcee`) - fix inaccurate downloader middleware documentation. refs #280 (:commit:`40667cb`) - doc: remove links to diveintopython.org, which is no longer available. closes #246 (:commit:`bd58bfa`) - Find form nodes in invalid html5 documents (:commit:`e3d6945`) @@ -1791,8 +4188,8 @@ Scrapy 0.16.4 (released 2013-01-23) - Fixed error message formatting. log.err() doesn't support cool formatting and when error occurred, the message was: "ERROR: Error processing %(item)s" (:commit:`c16150c`) - lint and improve images pipeline error logging (:commit:`56b45fc`) - fixed doc typos (:commit:`243be84`) -- add documentation topics: Broad Crawls & Common Practies (:commit:`1fbb715`) -- fix bug in scrapy parse command when spider is not specified explicitly. closes #209 (:commit:`c72e682`) +- add documentation topics: Broad Crawls & Common Practices (:commit:`1fbb715`) +- fix bug in Scrapy parse command when spider is not specified explicitly. closes #209 (:commit:`c72e682`) - Update docs/topics/commands.rst (:commit:`28eac7a`) Scrapy 0.16.3 (released 2012-12-07) @@ -1800,7 +4197,7 @@ Scrapy 0.16.3 (released 2012-12-07) - Remove concurrency limitation when using download delays and still ensure inter-request delays are enforced (:commit:`487b9b5`) - add error details when image pipeline fails (:commit:`8232569`) -- improve mac os compatibility (:commit:`8dcf8aa`) +- improve macOS compatibility (:commit:`8dcf8aa`) - setup.py: use README.rst to populate long_description (:commit:`7b5310d`) - doc: removed obsolete references to ClientForm (:commit:`80f9bb6`) - correct docs for default storage backend (:commit:`2aa491b`) @@ -1811,11 +4208,11 @@ Scrapy 0.16.3 (released 2012-12-07) Scrapy 0.16.2 (released 2012-11-09) ----------------------------------- -- scrapy contracts: python2.6 compat (:commit:`a4a9199`) -- scrapy contracts verbose option (:commit:`ec41673`) -- proper unittest-like output for scrapy contracts (:commit:`86635e4`) +- Scrapy contracts: python2.6 compat (:commit:`a4a9199`) +- Scrapy contracts verbose option (:commit:`ec41673`) +- proper unittest-like output for Scrapy contracts (:commit:`86635e4`) - added open_in_browser to debugging doc (:commit:`c9b690d`) -- removed reference to global scrapy stats from settings doc (:commit:`dd55067`) +- removed reference to global Scrapy stats from settings doc (:commit:`dd55067`) - Fix SpiderState bug in Windows platforms (:commit:`58998f4`) @@ -1823,9 +4220,9 @@ Scrapy 0.16.1 (released 2012-10-26) ----------------------------------- - fixed LogStats extension, which got broken after a wrong merge before the 0.16 release (:commit:`8c780fd`) -- better backwards compatibility for scrapy.conf.settings (:commit:`3403089`) +- better backward compatibility for scrapy.conf.settings (:commit:`3403089`) - extended documentation on how to access crawler stats from extensions (:commit:`c4da0b5`) -- removed .hgtags (no longer needed now that scrapy uses git) (:commit:`d52c188`) +- removed .hgtags (no longer needed now that Scrapy uses git) (:commit:`d52c188`) - fix dashes under rst headers (:commit:`fa4f7f9`) - set release date for 0.16.0 in news (:commit:`e292246`) @@ -1838,13 +4235,12 @@ Scrapy changes: - added :ref:`topics-contracts`, a mechanism for testing spiders in a formal/reproducible way - added options ``-o`` and ``-t`` to the :command:`runspider` command - documented :doc:`topics/autothrottle` and added to extensions installed by default. You still need to enable it with :setting:`AUTOTHROTTLE_ENABLED` -- major Stats Collection refactoring: removed separation of global/per-spider stats, removed stats-related signals (``stats_spider_opened``, etc). Stats are much simpler now, backwards compatibility is kept on the Stats Collector API and signals. -- added :meth:`~scrapy.contrib.spidermiddleware.SpiderMiddleware.process_start_requests` method to spider middlewares -- dropped Signals singleton. Signals should now be accesed through the Crawler.signals attribute. See the signals documentation for more info. -- dropped Signals singleton. Signals should now be accesed through the Crawler.signals attribute. See the signals documentation for more info. +- major Stats Collection refactoring: removed separation of global/per-spider stats, removed stats-related signals (``stats_spider_opened``, etc). Stats are much simpler now, backward compatibility is kept on the Stats Collector API and signals. +- added :meth:`~scrapy.spidermiddlewares.SpiderMiddleware.process_start_requests` method to spider middlewares +- dropped Signals singleton. Signals should now be accessed through the Crawler.signals attribute. See the signals documentation for more info. - dropped Stats Collector singleton. Stats can now be accessed through the Crawler.stats attribute. See the stats collection documentation for more info. - documented :ref:`topics-api` -- `lxml` is now the default selectors backend instead of `libxml2` +- ``lxml`` is now the default selectors backend instead of ``libxml2`` - ported FormRequest.from_response() to use `lxml`_ instead of `ClientForm`_ - removed modules: ``scrapy.xlib.BeautifulSoup`` and ``scrapy.xlib.ClientForm`` - SitemapSpider: added support for sitemap urls ending in .xml and .xml.gz, even if they advertise a wrong content type (:commit:`10ed28b`) @@ -1863,7 +4259,7 @@ Scrapy changes: - removed ``ENCODING_ALIASES`` setting, as encoding auto-detection has been moved to the `w3lib`_ library - promoted :ref:`topics-djangoitem` to main contrib - LogFormatter method now return dicts(instead of strings) to support lazy formatting (:issue:`164`, :commit:`dcef7b0`) -- downloader handlers (:setting:`DOWNLOAD_HANDLERS` setting) now receive settings as the first argument of the constructor +- downloader handlers (:setting:`DOWNLOAD_HANDLERS` setting) now receive settings as the first argument of the ``__init__`` method - replaced memory usage acounting with (more portable) `resource`_ module, removed ``scrapy.utils.memory`` module - removed signal: ``scrapy.mail.mail_sent`` - removed ``TRACK_REFS`` setting, now :ref:`trackrefs ` is always enabled @@ -1875,7 +4271,7 @@ Scrapy changes: Scrapy 0.14.4 ------------- -- added precise to supported ubuntu distros (:commit:`b7e46df`) +- added precise to supported Ubuntu distros (:commit:`b7e46df`) - fixed bug in json-rpc webservice reported in https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/scrapy-users/qgVBmFybNAQ/discussion. also removed no longer supported 'run' command from extras/scrapy-ws.py (:commit:`340fbdb`) - meta tag attributes for content-type http equiv can be in any order. #123 (:commit:`0cb68af`) - replace "import Image" by more standard "from PIL import Image". closes #88 (:commit:`4d17048`) @@ -1888,11 +4284,11 @@ Scrapy 0.14.3 - include egg files used by testsuite in source distribution. #118 (:commit:`c897793`) - update docstring in project template to avoid confusion with genspider command, which may be considered as an advanced feature. refs #107 (:commit:`2548dcc`) - added note to docs/topics/firebug.rst about google directory being shut down (:commit:`668e352`) -- do not discard slot when empty, just save in another dict in order to recycle if needed again. (:commit:`8e9f607`) +- don't discard slot when empty, just save in another dict in order to recycle if needed again. (:commit:`8e9f607`) - do not fail handling unicode xpaths in libxml2 backed selectors (:commit:`b830e95`) - fixed minor mistake in Request objects documentation (:commit:`bf3c9ee`) - fixed minor defect in link extractors documentation (:commit:`ba14f38`) -- removed some obsolete remaining code related to sqlite support in scrapy (:commit:`0665175`) +- removed some obsolete remaining code related to sqlite support in Scrapy (:commit:`0665175`) Scrapy 0.14.2 ------------- @@ -1937,16 +4333,16 @@ New features and settings - New ``ChunkedTransferMiddleware`` (enabled by default) to support `chunked transfer encoding`_ (:rev:`2769`) - Add boto 2.0 support for S3 downloader handler (:rev:`2763`) - Added `marshal`_ to formats supported by feed exports (:rev:`2744`) -- In request errbacks, offending requests are now received in `failure.request` attribute (:rev:`2738`) +- In request errbacks, offending requests are now received in ``failure.request`` attribute (:rev:`2738`) - Big downloader refactoring to support per domain/ip concurrency limits (:rev:`2732`) - ``CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_SPIDER`` setting has been deprecated and replaced by: - :setting:`CONCURRENT_REQUESTS`, :setting:`CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN`, :setting:`CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_IP` - check the documentation for more details - Added builtin caching DNS resolver (:rev:`2728`) - Moved Amazon AWS-related components/extensions (SQS spider queue, SimpleDB stats collector) to a separate project: [scaws](https://github.com/scrapinghub/scaws) (:rev:`2706`, :rev:`2714`) -- Moved spider queues to scrapyd: `scrapy.spiderqueue` -> `scrapyd.spiderqueue` (:rev:`2708`) -- Moved sqlite utils to scrapyd: `scrapy.utils.sqlite` -> `scrapyd.sqlite` (:rev:`2781`) -- Real support for returning iterators on `start_requests()` method. The iterator is now consumed during the crawl when the spider is getting idle (:rev:`2704`) +- Moved spider queues to scrapyd: ``scrapy.spiderqueue`` -> ``scrapyd.spiderqueue`` (:rev:`2708`) +- Moved sqlite utils to scrapyd: ``scrapy.utils.sqlite`` -> ``scrapyd.sqlite`` (:rev:`2781`) +- Real support for returning iterators on ``start_requests()`` method. The iterator is now consumed during the crawl when the spider is getting idle (:rev:`2704`) - Added :setting:`REDIRECT_ENABLED` setting to quickly enable/disable the redirect middleware (:rev:`2697`) - Added :setting:`RETRY_ENABLED` setting to quickly enable/disable the retry middleware (:rev:`2694`) - Added ``CloseSpider`` exception to manually close spiders (:rev:`2691`) @@ -1954,19 +4350,19 @@ New features and settings - Refactored close spider behavior to wait for all downloads to finish and be processed by spiders, before closing the spider (:rev:`2688`) - Added ``SitemapSpider`` (see documentation in Spiders page) (:rev:`2658`) - Added ``LogStats`` extension for periodically logging basic stats (like crawled pages and scraped items) (:rev:`2657`) -- Make handling of gzipped responses more robust (#319, :rev:`2643`). Now Scrapy will try and decompress as much as possible from a gzipped response, instead of failing with an `IOError`. +- Make handling of gzipped responses more robust (#319, :rev:`2643`). Now Scrapy will try and decompress as much as possible from a gzipped response, instead of failing with an ``IOError``. - Simplified !MemoryDebugger extension to use stats for dumping memory debugging info (:rev:`2639`) -- Added new command to edit spiders: ``scrapy edit`` (:rev:`2636`) and `-e` flag to `genspider` command that uses it (:rev:`2653`) +- Added new command to edit spiders: ``scrapy edit`` (:rev:`2636`) and ``-e`` flag to ``genspider`` command that uses it (:rev:`2653`) - Changed default representation of items to pretty-printed dicts. (:rev:`2631`). This improves default logging by making log more readable in the default case, for both Scraped and Dropped lines. - Added :signal:`spider_error` signal (:rev:`2628`) - Added :setting:`COOKIES_ENABLED` setting (:rev:`2625`) -- Stats are now dumped to Scrapy log (default value of :setting:`STATS_DUMP` setting has been changed to `True`). This is to make Scrapy users more aware of Scrapy stats and the data that is collected there. +- Stats are now dumped to Scrapy log (default value of :setting:`STATS_DUMP` setting has been changed to ``True``). This is to make Scrapy users more aware of Scrapy stats and the data that is collected there. - Added support for dynamically adjusting download delay and maximum concurrent requests (:rev:`2599`) - Added new DBM HTTP cache storage backend (:rev:`2576`) - Added ``listjobs.json`` API to Scrapyd (:rev:`2571`) - ``CsvItemExporter``: added ``join_multivalued`` parameter (:rev:`2578`) - Added namespace support to ``xmliter_lxml`` (:rev:`2552`) -- Improved cookies middleware by making `COOKIES_DEBUG` nicer and documenting it (:rev:`2579`) +- Improved cookies middleware by making ``COOKIES_DEBUG`` nicer and documenting it (:rev:`2579`) - Several improvements to Scrapyd and Link extractors Code rearranged and removed @@ -1980,17 +4376,17 @@ Code rearranged and removed - Reduced Scrapy codebase by striping part of Scrapy code into two new libraries: - `w3lib`_ (several functions from ``scrapy.utils.{http,markup,multipart,response,url}``, done in :rev:`2584`) - `scrapely`_ (was ``scrapy.contrib.ibl``, done in :rev:`2586`) -- Removed unused function: `scrapy.utils.request.request_info()` (:rev:`2577`) -- Removed googledir project from `examples/googledir`. There's now a new example project called `dirbot` available on github: https://github.com/scrapy/dirbot +- Removed unused function: ``scrapy.utils.request.request_info()`` (:rev:`2577`) +- Removed googledir project from ``examples/googledir``. There's now a new example project called ``dirbot`` available on GitHub: https://github.com/scrapy/dirbot - Removed support for default field values in Scrapy items (:rev:`2616`) - Removed experimental crawlspider v2 (:rev:`2632`) -- Removed scheduler middleware to simplify architecture. Duplicates filter is now done in the scheduler itself, using the same dupe filtering class as before (`DUPEFILTER_CLASS` setting) (:rev:`2640`) +- Removed scheduler middleware to simplify architecture. Duplicates filter is now done in the scheduler itself, using the same dupe filtering class as before (``DUPEFILTER_CLASS`` setting) (:rev:`2640`) - Removed support for passing urls to ``scrapy crawl`` command (use ``scrapy parse`` instead) (:rev:`2704`) - Removed deprecated Execution Queue (:rev:`2704`) - Removed (undocumented) spider context extension (from scrapy.contrib.spidercontext) (:rev:`2780`) - removed ``CONCURRENT_SPIDERS`` setting (use scrapyd maxproc instead) (:rev:`2789`) - Renamed attributes of core components: downloader.sites -> downloader.slots, scraper.sites -> scraper.slots (:rev:`2717`, :rev:`2718`) -- Renamed setting ``CLOSESPIDER_ITEMPASSED`` to :setting:`CLOSESPIDER_ITEMCOUNT` (:rev:`2655`). Backwards compatibility kept. +- Renamed setting ``CLOSESPIDER_ITEMPASSED`` to :setting:`CLOSESPIDER_ITEMCOUNT` (:rev:`2655`). Backward compatibility kept. Scrapy 0.12 ----------- @@ -2000,7 +4396,8 @@ The numbers like #NNN reference tickets in the old issue tracker (Trac) which is New features and improvements ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- Passed item is now sent in the ``item`` argument of the :signal:`item_passed` (#273) +- Passed item is now sent in the ``item`` argument of the :signal:`item_passed + ` (#273) - Added verbose option to ``scrapy version`` command, useful for bug reports (#298) - HTTP cache now stored by default in the project data dir (#279) - Added project data storage directory (#276, #277) @@ -2018,15 +4415,15 @@ Scrapyd changes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Scrapyd now uses one process per spider -- It stores one log file per spider run, and rotate them keeping the lastest 5 logs per spider (by default) +- It stores one log file per spider run, and rotate them keeping the latest 5 logs per spider (by default) - A minimal web ui was added, available at http://localhost:6800 by default -- There is now a `scrapy server` command to start a Scrapyd server of the current project +- There is now a ``scrapy server`` command to start a Scrapyd server of the current project Changes to settings ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- added `HTTPCACHE_ENABLED` setting (False by default) to enable HTTP cache middleware -- changed `HTTPCACHE_EXPIRATION_SECS` semantics: now zero means "never expire". +- added ``HTTPCACHE_ENABLED`` setting (False by default) to enable HTTP cache middleware +- changed ``HTTPCACHE_EXPIRATION_SECS`` semantics: now zero means "never expire". Deprecated/obsoleted functionality ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -2054,20 +4451,20 @@ New features and improvements - Added two new methods to item pipeline open_spider(), close_spider() with deferred support (#195) - Support for overriding default request headers per spider (#181) - Replaced default Spider Manager with one with similar functionality but not depending on Twisted Plugins (#186) -- The Debian package has been split into two packages - library and the service (#187) +- Split Debian package into two packages - the library and the service (#187) - Scrapy log refactoring (#188) - New extension for keeping persistent spider contexts among different runs (#203) -- Added `dont_redirect` request.meta key for avoiding redirects (#233) -- Added `dont_retry` request.meta key for avoiding retries (#234) +- Added ``dont_redirect`` request.meta key for avoiding redirects (#233) +- Added ``dont_retry`` request.meta key for avoiding retries (#234) Command-line tool changes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- New `scrapy` command which replaces the old `scrapy-ctl.py` (#199) - - there is only one global `scrapy` command now, instead of one `scrapy-ctl.py` per project - - Added `scrapy.bat` script for running more conveniently from Windows +- New ``scrapy`` command which replaces the old ``scrapy-ctl.py`` (#199) + - there is only one global ``scrapy`` command now, instead of one ``scrapy-ctl.py`` per project + - Added ``scrapy.bat`` script for running more conveniently from Windows - Added bash completion to command-line tool (#210) -- Renamed command `start` to `runserver` (#209) +- Renamed command ``start`` to ``runserver`` (#209) API changes ~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -2076,7 +4473,7 @@ API changes - ``Request.copy()`` and ``Request.replace()`` now also copies their ``callback`` and ``errback`` attributes (#231) - Removed ``UrlFilterMiddleware`` from ``scrapy.contrib`` (already disabled by default) - Offsite middleware doesn't filter out any request coming from a spider that doesn't have a allowed_domains attribute (#225) -- Removed Spider Manager ``load()`` method. Now spiders are loaded in the constructor itself. +- Removed Spider Manager ``load()`` method. Now spiders are loaded in the ``__init__`` method itself. - Changes to Scrapy Manager (now called "Crawler"): - ``scrapy.core.manager.ScrapyManager`` class renamed to ``scrapy.crawler.Crawler`` - ``scrapy.core.manager.scrapymanager`` singleton moved to ``scrapy.project.crawler`` @@ -2087,11 +4484,11 @@ API changes - ``scrapy.stats.collector.SimpledbStatsCollector`` to ``scrapy.contrib.statscol.SimpledbStatsCollector`` - default per-command settings are now specified in the ``default_settings`` attribute of command object class (#201) - changed arguments of Item pipeline ``process_item()`` method from ``(spider, item)`` to ``(item, spider)`` - - backwards compatibility kept (with deprecation warning) + - backward compatibility kept (with deprecation warning) - moved ``scrapy.core.signals`` module to ``scrapy.signals`` - - backwards compatibility kept (with deprecation warning) + - backward compatibility kept (with deprecation warning) - moved ``scrapy.core.exceptions`` module to ``scrapy.exceptions`` - - backwards compatibility kept (with deprecation warning) + - backward compatibility kept (with deprecation warning) - added ``handles_request()`` class method to ``BaseSpider`` - dropped ``scrapy.log.exc()`` function (use ``scrapy.log.err()`` instead) - dropped ``component`` argument of ``scrapy.log.msg()`` function @@ -2162,8 +4559,8 @@ New features - Added support for HTTP proxies (``HttpProxyMiddleware``) (:rev:`1781`, :rev:`1785`) - Offsite spider middleware now logs messages when filtering out requests (:rev:`1841`) -Backwards-incompatible changes -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Backward-incompatible changes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Changed ``scrapy.utils.response.get_meta_refresh()`` signature (:rev:`1804`) - Removed deprecated ``scrapy.item.ScrapedItem`` class - use ``scrapy.item.Item instead`` (:rev:`1838`) @@ -2200,14 +4597,36 @@ Scrapy 0.7 First release of Scrapy. -.. _AJAX crawleable urls: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/getting-started?csw=1 +.. _AJAX crawleable urls: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/ajax-crawling/docs/getting-started?csw=1 +.. _botocore: https://github.com/boto/botocore .. _chunked transfer encoding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunked_transfer_encoding -.. _w3lib: https://github.com/scrapy/w3lib -.. _scrapely: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapely -.. _marshal: https://docs.python.org/2/library/marshal.html -.. _w3lib.encoding: https://github.com/scrapy/w3lib/blob/master/w3lib/encoding.py -.. _lxml: http://lxml.de/ .. _ClientForm: http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/old/ClientForm/ -.. _resource: https://docs.python.org/2/library/resource.html +.. _Creating a pull request: https://help.github.com/en/articles/creating-a-pull-request +.. _cryptography: https://cryptography.io/en/latest/ +.. _docstrings: https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html#term-docstring +.. _KeyboardInterrupt: https://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html#KeyboardInterrupt +.. _LevelDB: https://github.com/google/leveldb +.. _lxml: https://lxml.de/ +.. _marshal: https://docs.python.org/2/library/marshal.html +.. _parsel.csstranslator.GenericTranslator: https://parsel.readthedocs.io/en/latest/parsel.html#parsel.csstranslator.GenericTranslator +.. _parsel.csstranslator.HTMLTranslator: https://parsel.readthedocs.io/en/latest/parsel.html#parsel.csstranslator.HTMLTranslator +.. _parsel.csstranslator.XPathExpr: https://parsel.readthedocs.io/en/latest/parsel.html#parsel.csstranslator.XPathExpr +.. _PEP 257: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0257/ +.. _Pillow: https://python-pillow.org/ +.. _pyOpenSSL: https://www.pyopenssl.org/en/stable/ .. _queuelib: https://github.com/scrapy/queuelib -.. _cssselect: https://github.com/SimonSapin/cssselect +.. _registered with IANA: https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml +.. _resource: https://docs.python.org/2/library/resource.html +.. _robots.txt: https://www.robotstxt.org/ +.. _scrapely: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapely +.. _scrapy-bench: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy-bench +.. _service_identity: https://service-identity.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ +.. _six: https://six.readthedocs.io/ +.. _tox: https://pypi.org/project/tox/ +.. _Twisted: https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ +.. _w3lib: https://github.com/scrapy/w3lib +.. _w3lib.encoding: https://github.com/scrapy/w3lib/blob/master/w3lib/encoding.py +.. _What is cacheable: https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.9.1 +.. _zope.interface: https://zopeinterface.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ +.. _Zsh: https://www.zsh.org/ +.. _zstandard: https://pypi.org/project/zstandard/ diff --git a/docs/requirements.txt b/docs/requirements.txt index 8e7611d21..a0930ba1e 100644 --- a/docs/requirements.txt +++ b/docs/requirements.txt @@ -1,2 +1,4 @@ -Sphinx>=1.6 -sphinx_rtd_theme \ No newline at end of file +Sphinx>=3.0 +sphinx-hoverxref>=0.2b1 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:class:`scrapy.spiders.Spider` subclass and a + :class:`scrapy.Spider` subclass and a :class:`scrapy.settings.Settings` object. .. attribute:: settings @@ -91,14 +89,16 @@ how you :ref:`configure the downloader middlewares provided while constructing the crawler, and it is created after the arguments given in the :meth:`crawl` method. - .. method:: crawl(\*args, \**kwargs) + .. method:: crawl(*args, **kwargs) Starts the crawler by instantiating its spider class with the given - `args` and `kwargs` arguments, while setting the execution engine in + ``args`` and ``kwargs`` arguments, while setting the execution engine in motion. Returns a deferred that is fired when the crawl is finished. + .. automethod:: stop + .. autoclass:: CrawlerRunner :members: @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ Settings API SpiderLoader API ================ -.. module:: scrapy.loader +.. module:: scrapy.spiderloader :synopsis: The spider loader .. class:: SpiderLoader @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ SpiderLoader API .. method:: load(spider_name) Get the Spider class with the given name. It'll look into the previously - loaded spiders for a spider class with name `spider_name` and will raise + loaded spiders for a spider class with name ``spider_name`` and will raise a KeyError if not found. :param spider_name: spider class name @@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ SpiderLoader API match the request's url against the domains of the spiders. :param request: queried request - :type request: :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` instance + :type request: :class:`~scrapy.Request` instance .. _topics-api-signals: @@ -271,5 +271,3 @@ class (which they all inherit from). Close the given spider. After this is called, no more specific stats can be accessed or collected. - -.. _reactor: https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/core/howto/reactor-basics.html diff --git a/docs/topics/architecture.rst b/docs/topics/architecture.rst index 4ac39ad2d..0c3a7ed88 100644 --- a/docs/topics/architecture.rst +++ b/docs/topics/architecture.rst @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ this: the :ref:`Scheduler ` and asks for possible next Requests to crawl. -9. The process repeats (from step 1) until there are no more requests from the +9. The process repeats (from step 3) until there are no more requests from the :ref:`Scheduler `. Components @@ -87,8 +87,9 @@ of the system, and triggering events when certain actions occur. See the Scheduler --------- -The Scheduler receives requests from the engine and enqueues them for feeding -them later (also to the engine) when the engine requests them. +The :ref:`scheduler ` receives requests from the engine and +enqueues them for feeding them later (also to the engine) when the engine +requests them. .. _component-downloader: @@ -104,7 +105,7 @@ Spiders ------- Spiders are custom classes written by Scrapy users to parse responses and -extract items (aka scraped items) from them or additional requests to +extract :ref:`items ` from them or additional requests to follow. For more information see :ref:`topics-spiders`. .. _component-pipelines: @@ -166,11 +167,10 @@ for concurrency. For more information about asynchronous programming and Twisted see these links: -* `Introduction to Deferreds in Twisted`_ +* :doc:`twisted:core/howto/defer-intro` * `Twisted - hello, asynchronous programming`_ * `Twisted Introduction - Krondo`_ .. _Twisted: https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ -.. _Introduction to Deferreds in Twisted: https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/core/howto/defer-intro.html -.. _Twisted - hello, asynchronous programming: http://jessenoller.com/2009/02/11/twisted-hello-asynchronous-programming/ +.. _Twisted - hello, asynchronous programming: http://jessenoller.com/blog/2009/02/11/twisted-hello-asynchronous-programming/ .. _Twisted Introduction - Krondo: http://krondo.com/an-introduction-to-asynchronous-programming-and-twisted/ diff --git a/docs/topics/asyncio.rst b/docs/topics/asyncio.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8712d4268 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/topics/asyncio.rst @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +.. _using-asyncio: + +======= +asyncio +======= + +.. versionadded:: 2.0 + +Scrapy has partial support for :mod:`asyncio`. After you :ref:`install the +asyncio reactor `, you may use :mod:`asyncio` and +:mod:`asyncio`-powered libraries in any :doc:`coroutine `. + +.. _install-asyncio: + +Installing the asyncio reactor +============================== + +To enable :mod:`asyncio` support, set the :setting:`TWISTED_REACTOR` setting to +``'twisted.internet.asyncioreactor.AsyncioSelectorReactor'``. + +If you are using :class:`~scrapy.crawler.CrawlerRunner`, you also need to +install the :class:`~twisted.internet.asyncioreactor.AsyncioSelectorReactor` +reactor manually. You can do that using +:func:`~scrapy.utils.reactor.install_reactor`:: + + install_reactor('twisted.internet.asyncioreactor.AsyncioSelectorReactor') + +.. _using-custom-loops: + +Using custom asyncio loops +========================== + +You can also use custom asyncio event loops with the asyncio reactor. Set the +:setting:`ASYNCIO_EVENT_LOOP` setting to the import path of the desired event loop class to +use it instead of the default asyncio event loop. + +.. _asyncio-await-dfd: + +Windows-specific notes +====================== + +The Windows implementation of :mod:`asyncio` can use two event loop +implementations: :class:`~asyncio.SelectorEventLoop` (default before Python +3.8, required when using Twisted) and :class:`~asyncio.ProactorEventLoop` +(default since Python 3.8, cannot work with Twisted). So on Python 3.8+ the +event loop class needs to be changed. Scrapy since VERSION does this +automatically when you change the :setting:`TWISTED_REACTOR` setting or call +:func:`~scrapy.utils.reactor.install_reactor`, but if you install the reactor +by other means or use an older Scrapy version you need to call the following +code before installing the reactor:: + + import asyncio + asyncio.set_event_loop_policy(asyncio.WindowsSelectorEventLoopPolicy()) + +You can put this in the same function that installs the reactor, if you do that +yourself, or in some code that runs before the reactor is installed, e.g. +``settings.py``. + +.. note:: Other libraries you use may require + :class:`~asyncio.ProactorEventLoop`, e.g. because it supports + subprocesses (this is the case with `playwright`_), so you cannot use + them together with Scrapy on Windows (but you should be able to use + them on WSL or native Linux). + +.. _playwright: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-python + +Awaiting on Deferreds +===================== + +When the asyncio reactor isn't installed, you can await on Deferreds in the +coroutines directly. When it is installed, this is not possible anymore, due to +specifics of the Scrapy coroutine integration (the coroutines are wrapped into +:class:`asyncio.Future` objects, not into +:class:`~twisted.internet.defer.Deferred` directly), and you need to wrap them into +Futures. Scrapy provides two helpers for this: + +.. autofunction:: scrapy.utils.defer.deferred_to_future +.. autofunction:: scrapy.utils.defer.maybe_deferred_to_future +.. tip:: If you need to use these functions in code that aims to be compatible + with lower versions of Scrapy that do not provide these functions, + down to Scrapy 2.0 (earlier versions do not support + :mod:`asyncio`), you can copy the implementation of these functions + into your own code. diff --git a/docs/topics/autothrottle.rst b/docs/topics/autothrottle.rst index c9bece753..8e6aae65c 100644 --- a/docs/topics/autothrottle.rst +++ b/docs/topics/autothrottle.rst @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Design goals ============ 1. be nicer to sites instead of using default download delay of zero -2. automatically adjust scrapy to the optimum crawling speed, so the user +2. automatically adjust Scrapy to the optimum crawling speed, so the user doesn't have to tune the download delays to find the optimum one. The user only needs to specify the maximum concurrent requests it allows, and the extension does the rest. @@ -128,8 +128,6 @@ The maximum download delay (in seconds) to be set in case of high latencies. AUTOTHROTTLE_TARGET_CONCURRENCY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -.. versionadded:: 1.1 - Default: ``1.0`` Average number of requests Scrapy should be sending in parallel to remote diff --git a/docs/topics/benchmarking.rst b/docs/topics/benchmarking.rst index 99469ebf1..0643df6a6 100644 --- a/docs/topics/benchmarking.rst +++ b/docs/topics/benchmarking.rst @@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ Benchmarking ============ -.. versionadded:: 0.17 - Scrapy comes with a simple benchmarking suite that spawns a local HTTP server and crawls it at the maximum possible speed. The goal of this benchmarking is to get an idea of how Scrapy performs in your hardware, in order to have a @@ -83,5 +81,6 @@ follow links, any custom spider you write will probably do more stuff which results in slower crawl rates. How slower depends on how much your spider does and how well it's written. -In the future, more cases will be added to the benchmarking suite to cover -other common scenarios. +Use scrapy-bench_ for more complex benchmarking. + +.. _scrapy-bench: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy-bench \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/topics/broad-crawls.rst b/docs/topics/broad-crawls.rst index eb02086dc..63b60312e 100644 --- a/docs/topics/broad-crawls.rst +++ b/docs/topics/broad-crawls.rst @@ -39,24 +39,50 @@ you need to keep in mind when using Scrapy for doing broad crawls, along with concrete suggestions of Scrapy settings to tune in order to achieve an efficient broad crawl. +.. _broad-crawls-scheduler-priority-queue: + +Use the right :setting:`SCHEDULER_PRIORITY_QUEUE` +================================================= + +Scrapy’s default scheduler priority queue is ``'scrapy.pqueues.ScrapyPriorityQueue'``. +It works best during single-domain crawl. It does not work well with crawling +many different domains in parallel + +To apply the recommended priority queue use:: + + SCHEDULER_PRIORITY_QUEUE = 'scrapy.pqueues.DownloaderAwarePriorityQueue' + +.. _broad-crawls-concurrency: + Increase concurrency ==================== Concurrency is the number of requests that are processed in parallel. There is -a global limit and a per-domain limit. +a global limit (:setting:`CONCURRENT_REQUESTS`) and an additional limit that +can be set either per domain (:setting:`CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN`) or per +IP (:setting:`CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_IP`). + +.. note:: The scheduler priority queue :ref:`recommended for broad crawls + ` does not support + :setting:`CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_IP`. The default global concurrency limit in Scrapy is not suitable for crawling many different domains in parallel, so you will want to increase it. How much -to increase it will depend on how much CPU you crawler will have available. A -good starting point is ``100``, but the best way to find out is by doing some -trials and identifying at what concurrency your Scrapy process gets CPU -bounded. For optimum performance, you should pick a concurrency where CPU usage -is at 80-90%. +to increase it will depend on how much CPU and memory you crawler will have +available. -To increase the global concurrency use:: +A good starting point is ``100``:: CONCURRENT_REQUESTS = 100 +But the best way to find out is by doing some trials and identifying at what +concurrency your Scrapy process gets CPU bounded. For optimum performance, you +should pick a concurrency where CPU usage is at 80-90%. + +Increasing concurrency also increases memory usage. If memory usage is a +concern, you might need to lower your global concurrency limit accordingly. + + Increase Twisted IO thread pool maximum size ============================================ @@ -85,7 +111,7 @@ When doing broad crawls you are often only interested in the crawl rates you get and any errors found. These stats are reported by Scrapy when using the ``INFO`` log level. In order to save CPU (and log storage requirements) you should not use ``DEBUG`` log level when preforming large broad crawls in -production. Using ``DEBUG`` level when developing your (broad) crawler may be +production. Using ``DEBUG`` level when developing your (broad) crawler may be fine though. To set the log level use:: @@ -162,4 +188,33 @@ AjaxCrawlMiddleware helps to crawl them correctly. It is turned OFF by default because it has some performance overhead, and enabling it for focused crawls doesn't make much sense. -.. _ajax crawlable: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/getting-started +.. _ajax crawlable: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/ajax-crawling/docs/getting-started + +.. _broad-crawls-bfo: + +Crawl in BFO order +================== + +:ref:`Scrapy crawls in DFO order by default `. + +In broad crawls, however, page crawling tends to be faster than page +processing. As a result, unprocessed early requests stay in memory until the +final depth is reached, which can significantly increase memory usage. + +:ref:`Crawl in BFO order ` instead to save memory. + + +Be mindful of memory leaks +========================== + +If your broad crawl shows a high memory usage, in addition to :ref:`crawling in +BFO order ` and :ref:`lowering concurrency +` you should :ref:`debug your memory leaks +`. + + +Install a specific Twisted reactor +================================== + +If the crawl is exceeding the system's capabilities, you might want to try +installing a specific Twisted reactor, via the :setting:`TWISTED_REACTOR` setting. diff --git a/docs/topics/commands.rst b/docs/topics/commands.rst index 3088017cb..eef6b36ff 100644 --- a/docs/topics/commands.rst +++ b/docs/topics/commands.rst @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ +.. highlight:: none + .. _topics-commands: ================= Command line tool ================= -.. versionadded:: 0.10 - Scrapy is controlled through the ``scrapy`` command-line tool, to be referred here as the "Scrapy tool" to differentiate it from the sub-commands, which we just call "commands" or "Scrapy commands". @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ in standard locations: 1. ``/etc/scrapy.cfg`` or ``c:\scrapy\scrapy.cfg`` (system-wide), 2. ``~/.config/scrapy.cfg`` (``$XDG_CONFIG_HOME``) and ``~/.scrapy.cfg`` (``$HOME``) for global (user-wide) settings, and -3. ``scrapy.cfg`` inside a scrapy project's root (see next section). +3. ``scrapy.cfg`` inside a Scrapy project's root (see next section). Settings from these files are merged in the listed order of preference: user-defined values have higher priority than system-wide defaults @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Scrapy also understands, and can be configured through, a number of environment variables. Currently these are: * ``SCRAPY_SETTINGS_MODULE`` (see :ref:`topics-settings-module-envvar`) -* ``SCRAPY_PROJECT`` +* ``SCRAPY_PROJECT`` (see :ref:`topics-project-envvar`) * ``SCRAPY_PYTHON_SHELL`` (see :ref:`topics-shell`) .. _topics-project-structure: @@ -66,11 +66,42 @@ structure by default, similar to this:: The directory where the ``scrapy.cfg`` file resides is known as the *project root directory*. That file contains the name of the python module that defines -the project settings. Here is an example:: +the project settings. Here is an example: + +.. code-block:: ini [settings] default = myproject.settings +.. _topics-project-envvar: + +Sharing the root directory between projects +=========================================== + +A project root directory, the one that contains the ``scrapy.cfg``, may be +shared by multiple Scrapy projects, each with its own settings module. + +In that case, you must define one or more aliases for those settings modules +under ``[settings]`` in your ``scrapy.cfg`` file: + +.. code-block:: ini + + [settings] + default = myproject1.settings + project1 = myproject1.settings + project2 = myproject2.settings + +By default, the ``scrapy`` command-line tool will use the ``default`` settings. +Use the ``SCRAPY_PROJECT`` environment variable to specify a different project +for ``scrapy`` to use:: + + $ scrapy settings --get BOT_NAME + Project 1 Bot + $ export SCRAPY_PROJECT=project2 + $ scrapy settings --get BOT_NAME + Project 2 Bot + + Using the ``scrapy`` tool ========================= @@ -250,6 +281,8 @@ check Run contract checks. +.. skip: start + Usage examples:: $ scrapy check -l @@ -267,6 +300,8 @@ Usage examples:: [FAILED] first_spider:parse >>> Returned 92 requests, expected 0..4 +.. skip: end + .. command:: list list @@ -431,9 +466,12 @@ Supported options: * ``--callback`` or ``-c``: spider method to use as callback for parsing the response -* ``--meta`` or ``-m``: additional request meta that will be passed to the callback +* ``--meta`` or ``-m``: additional request meta that will be passed to the callback request. This must be a valid json string. Example: --meta='{"foo" : "bar"}' +* ``--cbkwargs``: additional keyword arguments that will be passed to the callback. + This must be a valid json string. Example: --cbkwargs='{"foo" : "bar"}' + * ``--pipelines``: process items through pipelines * ``--rules`` or ``-r``: use :class:`~scrapy.spiders.CrawlSpider` @@ -451,6 +489,12 @@ Supported options: * ``--verbose`` or ``-v``: display information for each depth level +* ``--output`` or ``-o``: dump scraped items to a file + + .. versionadded:: 2.3 + +.. skip: start + Usage example:: $ scrapy parse http://www.example.com/ -c parse_item @@ -458,13 +502,15 @@ Usage example:: >>> STATUS DEPTH LEVEL 1 <<< # Scraped Items ------------------------------------------------------------ - [{'name': u'Example item', - 'category': u'Furniture', - 'length': u'12 cm'}] + [{'name': 'Example item', + 'category': 'Furniture', + 'length': '12 cm'}] # Requests ----------------------------------------------------------------- [] +.. skip: end + .. command:: settings @@ -518,8 +564,6 @@ and Platform info, which is useful for bug reports. bench ----- -.. versionadded:: 0.17 - * Syntax: ``scrapy bench`` * Requires project: *no* @@ -543,7 +587,9 @@ Default: ``''`` (empty string) A module to use for looking up custom Scrapy commands. This is used to add custom commands for your Scrapy project. -Example:: +Example: + +.. code-block:: python COMMANDS_MODULE = 'mybot.commands' @@ -552,13 +598,15 @@ Example:: Register commands via setup.py entry points ------------------------------------------- -.. note:: This is an experimental feature, use with caution. - You can also add Scrapy commands from an external library by adding a ``scrapy.commands`` section in the entry points of the library ``setup.py`` file. -The following example adds ``my_command`` command:: +The following example adds ``my_command`` command: + +.. skip: next + +.. code-block:: python from setuptools import setup, find_packages diff --git a/docs/topics/contracts.rst b/docs/topics/contracts.rst index ba1421c42..ef296dc9e 100644 --- a/docs/topics/contracts.rst +++ b/docs/topics/contracts.rst @@ -4,12 +4,6 @@ Spiders Contracts ================= -.. versionadded:: 0.15 - -.. note:: This is a new feature (introduced in Scrapy 0.15) and may be subject - to minor functionality/API updates. Check the :ref:`release notes ` to - be notified of updates. - Testing spiders can get particularly annoying and while nothing prevents you from writing unit tests the task gets cumbersome quickly. Scrapy offers an integrated way of testing your spiders by the means of contracts. @@ -35,12 +29,20 @@ This callback is tested using three built-in contracts: .. class:: UrlContract - This contract (``@url``) sets the sample url used when checking other + This contract (``@url``) sets the sample URL used when checking other contract conditions for this spider. This contract is mandatory. All callbacks lacking this contract are ignored when running the checks:: @url url +.. class:: CallbackKeywordArgumentsContract + + This contract (``@cb_kwargs``) sets the :attr:`cb_kwargs ` + attribute for the sample request. It must be a valid JSON dictionary. + :: + + @cb_kwargs {"arg1": "value1", "arg2": "value2", ...} + .. class:: ReturnsContract This contract (``@returns``) sets lower and upper bounds for the items and @@ -60,7 +62,7 @@ Use the :command:`check` command to run the contract checks. Custom Contracts ================ -If you find you need more power than the built-in scrapy contracts you can +If you find you need more power than the built-in Scrapy contracts you can create and load your own contracts in the project by using the :setting:`SPIDER_CONTRACTS` setting:: @@ -69,15 +71,15 @@ create and load your own contracts in the project by using the 'myproject.contracts.ItemValidate': 10, } -Each contract must inherit from :class:`scrapy.contracts.Contract` and can +Each contract must inherit from :class:`~scrapy.contracts.Contract` and can override three methods: .. module:: scrapy.contracts -.. class:: Contract(method, \*args) +.. class:: Contract(method, *args) :param method: callback function to which the contract is associated - :type method: function + :type method: collections.abc.Callable :param args: list of arguments passed into the docstring (whitespace separated) @@ -86,8 +88,11 @@ override three methods: .. method:: Contract.adjust_request_args(args) This receives a ``dict`` as an argument containing default arguments - for :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` object. Must return the same or a - modified version of it. + for request object. :class:`~scrapy.Request` is used by default, + but this can be changed with the ``request_cls`` attribute. + If multiple contracts in chain have this attribute defined, the last one is used. + + Must return the same or a modified version of it. .. method:: Contract.pre_process(response) @@ -99,9 +104,14 @@ override three methods: This allows processing the output of the callback. Iterators are converted listified before being passed to this hook. +Raise :class:`~scrapy.exceptions.ContractFail` from +:class:`~scrapy.contracts.Contract.pre_process` or +:class:`~scrapy.contracts.Contract.post_process` if expectations are not met: + +.. autoclass:: scrapy.exceptions.ContractFail + Here is a demo contract which checks the presence of a custom header in the -response received. Raise :class:`scrapy.exceptions.ContractFail` in order to -get the failures pretty printed:: +response received:: from scrapy.contracts import Contract from scrapy.exceptions import ContractFail @@ -117,3 +127,22 @@ get the failures pretty printed:: for header in self.args: if header not in response.headers: raise ContractFail('X-CustomHeader not present') + +.. _detecting-contract-check-runs: + +Detecting check runs +==================== + +When ``scrapy check`` is running, the ``SCRAPY_CHECK`` environment variable is +set to the ``true`` string. You can use :data:`os.environ` to perform any change to +your spiders or your settings when ``scrapy check`` is used:: + + import os + import scrapy + + class ExampleSpider(scrapy.Spider): + name = 'example' + + def __init__(self): + if os.environ.get('SCRAPY_CHECK'): + pass # Do some scraper adjustments when a check is running diff --git a/docs/topics/coroutines.rst b/docs/topics/coroutines.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2aef755c7 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/topics/coroutines.rst @@ -0,0 +1,110 @@ +========== +Coroutines +========== + +.. versionadded:: 2.0 + +Scrapy has :ref:`partial support ` for the +:ref:`coroutine syntax `. + +.. _coroutine-support: + +Supported callables +=================== + +The following callables may be defined as coroutines using ``async def``, and +hence use coroutine syntax (e.g. ``await``, ``async for``, ``async with``): + +- :class:`~scrapy.Request` callbacks. + + .. note:: The callback output is not processed until the whole callback + finishes. + + As a side effect, if the callback raises an exception, none of its + output is processed. + + This is a known caveat of the current implementation that we aim to + address in a future version of Scrapy. + +- The :meth:`process_item` method of + :ref:`item pipelines `. + +- The + :meth:`~scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.DownloaderMiddleware.process_request`, + :meth:`~scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.DownloaderMiddleware.process_response`, + and + :meth:`~scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.DownloaderMiddleware.process_exception` + methods of + :ref:`downloader middlewares `. + +- :ref:`Signal handlers that support deferreds `. + +Usage +===== + +There are several use cases for coroutines in Scrapy. Code that would +return Deferreds when written for previous Scrapy versions, such as downloader +middlewares and signal handlers, can be rewritten to be shorter and cleaner:: + + from itemadapter import ItemAdapter + + class DbPipeline: + def _update_item(self, data, item): + adapter = ItemAdapter(item) + adapter['field'] = data + return item + + def process_item(self, item, spider): + adapter = ItemAdapter(item) + dfd = db.get_some_data(adapter['id']) + dfd.addCallback(self._update_item, item) + return dfd + +becomes:: + + from itemadapter import ItemAdapter + + class DbPipeline: + async def process_item(self, item, spider): + adapter = ItemAdapter(item) + adapter['field'] = await db.get_some_data(adapter['id']) + return item + +Coroutines may be used to call asynchronous code. This includes other +coroutines, functions that return Deferreds and functions that return +:term:`awaitable objects ` such as :class:`~asyncio.Future`. +This means you can use many useful Python libraries providing such code:: + + class MySpiderDeferred(Spider): + # ... + async def parse(self, response): + additional_response = await treq.get('https://additional.url') + additional_data = await treq.content(additional_response) + # ... use response and additional_data to yield items and requests + + class MySpiderAsyncio(Spider): + # ... + async def parse(self, response): + async with aiohttp.ClientSession() as session: + async with session.get('https://additional.url') as additional_response: + additional_data = await additional_response.text() + # ... use response and additional_data to yield items and requests + +.. note:: Many libraries that use coroutines, such as `aio-libs`_, require the + :mod:`asyncio` loop and to use them you need to + :doc:`enable asyncio support in Scrapy`. + +.. note:: If you want to ``await`` on Deferreds while using the asyncio reactor, + you need to :ref:`wrap them`. + +Common use cases for asynchronous code include: + +* requesting data from websites, databases and other services (in callbacks, + pipelines and middlewares); +* storing data in databases (in pipelines and middlewares); +* delaying the spider initialization until some external event (in the + :signal:`spider_opened` handler); +* calling asynchronous Scrapy methods like ``ExecutionEngine.download`` (see + :ref:`the screenshot pipeline example`). + +.. _aio-libs: https://github.com/aio-libs diff --git a/docs/topics/debug.rst b/docs/topics/debug.rst index d1991c02f..4d452b4df 100644 --- a/docs/topics/debug.rst +++ b/docs/topics/debug.rst @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Debugging Spiders ================= This document explains the most common techniques for debugging spiders. -Consider the following scrapy spider below:: +Consider the following Scrapy spider below:: import scrapy from myproject.items import MyItem @@ -18,24 +18,25 @@ Consider the following scrapy spider below:: ) def parse(self, response): - # collect `item_urls` + # + # collect `item_urls` for item_url in item_urls: yield scrapy.Request(item_url, self.parse_item) def parse_item(self, response): + # item = MyItem() # populate `item` fields # and extract item_details_url - yield scrapy.Request(item_details_url, self.parse_details, meta={'item': item}) + yield scrapy.Request(item_details_url, self.parse_details, cb_kwargs={'item': item}) - def parse_details(self, response): - item = response.meta['item'] + def parse_details(self, response, item): # populate more `item` fields return item Basically this is a simple spider which parses two pages of items (the start_urls). Items also have a details page with additional information, so we -use the ``meta`` functionality of :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` to pass a +use the ``cb_kwargs`` functionality of :class:`~scrapy.Request` to pass a partially populated item. @@ -47,6 +48,10 @@ The most basic way of checking the output of your spider is to use the of the spider at the method level. It has the advantage of being flexible and simple to use, but does not allow debugging code inside a method. +.. highlight:: none + +.. skip: start + In order to see the item scraped from a specific url:: $ scrapy parse --spider=myspider -c parse_item -d 2 @@ -84,6 +89,8 @@ using:: $ scrapy parse --spider=myspider -d 3 'http://example.com/page1' +.. skip: end + Scrapy Shell ============ @@ -93,13 +100,14 @@ spider, it is of little help to check what happens inside a callback, besides showing the response received and the output. How to debug the situation when ``parse_details`` sometimes receives no item? +.. highlight:: python + Fortunately, the :command:`shell` is your bread and butter in this case (see :ref:`topics-shell-inspect-response`):: from scrapy.shell import inspect_response - def parse_details(self, response): - item = response.meta.get('item', None) + def parse_details(self, response, item=None): if item: # populate more `item` fields return item @@ -132,8 +140,7 @@ Logging is another useful option for getting information about your spider run. Although not as convenient, it comes with the advantage that the logs will be available in all future runs should they be necessary again:: - def parse_details(self, response): - item = response.meta.get('item', None) + def parse_details(self, response, item=None): if item: # populate more `item` fields return item diff --git a/docs/topics/deploy.rst b/docs/topics/deploy.rst index 361914a29..961d6dc01 100644 --- a/docs/topics/deploy.rst +++ b/docs/topics/deploy.rst @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ spiders come in. Popular choices for deploying Scrapy spiders are: * :ref:`Scrapyd ` (open source) -* :ref:`Scrapy Cloud ` (cloud-based) +* :ref:`Zyte Scrapy Cloud ` (cloud-based) .. _deploy-scrapyd: @@ -32,28 +32,28 @@ Scrapyd is maintained by some of the Scrapy developers. .. _deploy-scrapy-cloud: -Deploying to Scrapy Cloud -========================= +Deploying to Zyte Scrapy Cloud +============================== -`Scrapy Cloud`_ is a hosted, cloud-based service by `Scrapinghub`_, -the company behind Scrapy. +`Zyte Scrapy Cloud`_ is a hosted, cloud-based service by Zyte_, the company +behind Scrapy. -Scrapy Cloud removes the need to setup and monitor servers -and provides a nice UI to manage spiders and review scraped items, -logs and stats. +Zyte Scrapy Cloud removes the need to setup and monitor servers and provides a +nice UI to manage spiders and review scraped items, logs and stats. -To deploy spiders to Scrapy Cloud you can use the `shub`_ command line tool. -Please refer to the `Scrapy Cloud documentation`_ for more information. +To deploy spiders to Zyte Scrapy Cloud you can use the `shub`_ command line +tool. +Please refer to the `Zyte Scrapy Cloud documentation`_ for more information. -Scrapy Cloud is compatible with Scrapyd and one can switch between +Zyte Scrapy Cloud is compatible with Scrapyd and one can switch between them as needed - the configuration is read from the ``scrapy.cfg`` file just like ``scrapyd-deploy``. -.. _Scrapyd: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapyd .. _Deploying your project: https://scrapyd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deploy.html -.. _Scrapy Cloud: https://scrapinghub.com/scrapy-cloud +.. _Scrapyd: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapyd .. _scrapyd-client: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapyd-client -.. _shub: https://doc.scrapinghub.com/shub.html .. _scrapyd-deploy documentation: https://scrapyd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deploy.html -.. _Scrapy Cloud documentation: https://doc.scrapinghub.com/scrapy-cloud.html -.. _Scrapinghub: https://scrapinghub.com/ +.. _shub: https://shub.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ +.. _Zyte: https://zyte.com/ +.. _Zyte Scrapy Cloud: https://www.zyte.com/scrapy-cloud/ +.. _Zyte Scrapy Cloud documentation: https://docs.zyte.com/scrapy-cloud.html diff --git a/docs/topics/developer-tools.rst b/docs/topics/developer-tools.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..057b1ec62 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/topics/developer-tools.rst @@ -0,0 +1,311 @@ +.. _topics-developer-tools: + +================================================= +Using your browser's Developer Tools for scraping +================================================= + +Here is a general guide on how to use your browser's Developer Tools +to ease the scraping process. Today almost all browsers come with +built in `Developer Tools`_ and although we will use Firefox in this +guide, the concepts are applicable to any other browser. + +In this guide we'll introduce the basic tools to use from a browser's +Developer Tools by scraping `quotes.toscrape.com`_. + +.. _topics-livedom: + +Caveats with inspecting the live browser DOM +============================================ + +Since Developer Tools operate on a live browser DOM, what you'll actually see +when inspecting the page source is not the original HTML, but a modified one +after applying some browser clean up and executing Javascript code. Firefox, +in particular, is known for adding ```` elements to tables. Scrapy, on +the other hand, does not modify the original page HTML, so you won't be able to +extract any data if you use ```` in your XPath expressions. + +Therefore, you should keep in mind the following things: + +* Disable Javascript while inspecting the DOM looking for XPaths to be + used in Scrapy (in the Developer Tools settings click `Disable JavaScript`) + +* Never use full XPath paths, use relative and clever ones based on attributes + (such as ``id``, ``class``, ``width``, etc) or any identifying features like + ``contains(@href, 'image')``. + +* Never include ```` elements in your XPath expressions unless you + really know what you're doing + +.. _topics-inspector: + +Inspecting a website +==================== + +By far the most handy feature of the Developer Tools is the `Inspector` +feature, which allows you to inspect the underlying HTML code of +any webpage. To demonstrate the Inspector, let's look at the +`quotes.toscrape.com`_-site. + +On the site we have a total of ten quotes from various authors with specific +tags, as well as the Top Ten Tags. Let's say we want to extract all the quotes +on this page, without any meta-information about authors, tags, etc. + +Instead of viewing the whole source code for the page, we can simply right click +on a quote and select ``Inspect Element (Q)``, which opens up the `Inspector`. +In it you should see something like this: + +.. image:: _images/inspector_01.png + :width: 777 + :height: 469 + :alt: Firefox's Inspector-tool + +The interesting part for us is this: + +.. code-block:: html + +
+ (...) + (...) +
(...)
+
+ +If you hover over the first ``div`` directly above the ``span`` tag highlighted +in the screenshot, you'll see that the corresponding section of the webpage gets +highlighted as well. So now we have a section, but we can't find our quote text +anywhere. + +The advantage of the `Inspector` is that it automatically expands and collapses +sections and tags of a webpage, which greatly improves readability. You can +expand and collapse a tag by clicking on the arrow in front of it or by double +clicking directly on the tag. If we expand the ``span`` tag with the ``class= +"text"`` we will see the quote-text we clicked on. The `Inspector` lets you +copy XPaths to selected elements. Let's try it out. + +First open the Scrapy shell at http://quotes.toscrape.com/ in a terminal: + +.. code-block:: none + + $ scrapy shell "http://quotes.toscrape.com/" + +Then, back to your web browser, right-click on the ``span`` tag, select +``Copy > XPath`` and paste it in the Scrapy shell like so: + +.. invisible-code-block: python + + response = load_response('http://quotes.toscrape.com/', 'quotes.html') + +>>> response.xpath('/html/body/div/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/span[1]/text()').getall() +['“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”'] + +Adding ``text()`` at the end we are able to extract the first quote with this +basic selector. But this XPath is not really that clever. All it does is +go down a desired path in the source code starting from ``html``. So let's +see if we can refine our XPath a bit: + +If we check the `Inspector` again we'll see that directly beneath our +expanded ``div`` tag we have nine identical ``div`` tags, each with the +same attributes as our first. If we expand any of them, we'll see the same +structure as with our first quote: Two ``span`` tags and one ``div`` tag. We can +expand each ``span`` tag with the ``class="text"`` inside our ``div`` tags and +see each quote: + +.. code-block:: html + +
+ + “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” + + (...) +
(...)
+
+ + +With this knowledge we can refine our XPath: Instead of a path to follow, +we'll simply select all ``span`` tags with the ``class="text"`` by using +the `has-class-extension`_: + +>>> response.xpath('//span[has-class("text")]/text()').getall() +['“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”', +'“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”', +'“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”', +...] + +And with one simple, cleverer XPath we are able to extract all quotes from +the page. We could have constructed a loop over our first XPath to increase +the number of the last ``div``, but this would have been unnecessarily +complex and by simply constructing an XPath with ``has-class("text")`` +we were able to extract all quotes in one line. + +The `Inspector` has a lot of other helpful features, such as searching in the +source code or directly scrolling to an element you selected. Let's demonstrate +a use case: + +Say you want to find the ``Next`` button on the page. Type ``Next`` into the +search bar on the top right of the `Inspector`. You should get two results. +The first is a ``li`` tag with the ``class="next"``, the second the text +of an ``a`` tag. Right click on the ``a`` tag and select ``Scroll into View``. +If you hover over the tag, you'll see the button highlighted. From here +we could easily create a :ref:`Link Extractor ` to +follow the pagination. On a simple site such as this, there may not be +the need to find an element visually but the ``Scroll into View`` function +can be quite useful on complex sites. + +Note that the search bar can also be used to search for and test CSS +selectors. For example, you could search for ``span.text`` to find +all quote texts. Instead of a full text search, this searches for +exactly the ``span`` tag with the ``class="text"`` in the page. + +.. _topics-network-tool: + +The Network-tool +================ +While scraping you may come across dynamic webpages where some parts +of the page are loaded dynamically through multiple requests. While +this can be quite tricky, the `Network`-tool in the Developer Tools +greatly facilitates this task. To demonstrate the Network-tool, let's +take a look at the page `quotes.toscrape.com/scroll`_. + +The page is quite similar to the basic `quotes.toscrape.com`_-page, +but instead of the above-mentioned ``Next`` button, the page +automatically loads new quotes when you scroll to the bottom. We +could go ahead and try out different XPaths directly, but instead +we'll check another quite useful command from the Scrapy shell: + +.. skip: next + +.. code-block:: none + + $ scrapy shell "quotes.toscrape.com/scroll" + (...) + >>> view(response) + +A browser window should open with the webpage but with one +crucial difference: Instead of the quotes we just see a greenish +bar with the word ``Loading...``. + +.. image:: _images/network_01.png + :width: 777 + :height: 296 + :alt: Response from quotes.toscrape.com/scroll + +The ``view(response)`` command let's us view the response our +shell or later our spider receives from the server. Here we see +that some basic template is loaded which includes the title, +the login-button and the footer, but the quotes are missing. This +tells us that the quotes are being loaded from a different request +than ``quotes.toscrape/scroll``. + +If you click on the ``Network`` tab, you will probably only see +two entries. The first thing we do is enable persistent logs by +clicking on ``Persist Logs``. If this option is disabled, the +log is automatically cleared each time you navigate to a different +page. Enabling this option is a good default, since it gives us +control on when to clear the logs. + +If we reload the page now, you'll see the log get populated with six +new requests. + +.. image:: _images/network_02.png + :width: 777 + :height: 241 + :alt: Network tab with persistent logs and requests + +Here we see every request that has been made when reloading the page +and can inspect each request and its response. So let's find out +where our quotes are coming from: + +First click on the request with the name ``scroll``. On the right +you can now inspect the request. In ``Headers`` you'll find details +about the request headers, such as the URL, the method, the IP-address, +and so on. We'll ignore the other tabs and click directly on ``Response``. + +What you should see in the ``Preview`` pane is the rendered HTML-code, +that is exactly what we saw when we called ``view(response)`` in the +shell. Accordingly the ``type`` of the request in the log is ``html``. +The other requests have types like ``css`` or ``js``, but what +interests us is the one request called ``quotes?page=1`` with the +type ``json``. + +If we click on this request, we see that the request URL is +``http://quotes.toscrape.com/api/quotes?page=1`` and the response +is a JSON-object that contains our quotes. We can also right-click +on the request and open ``Open in new tab`` to get a better overview. + +.. image:: _images/network_03.png + :width: 777 + :height: 375 + :alt: JSON-object returned from the quotes.toscrape API + +With this response we can now easily parse the JSON-object and +also request each page to get every quote on the site:: + + import scrapy + import json + + + class QuoteSpider(scrapy.Spider): + name = 'quote' + allowed_domains = ['quotes.toscrape.com'] + page = 1 + start_urls = ['http://quotes.toscrape.com/api/quotes?page=1'] + + def parse(self, response): + data = json.loads(response.text) + for quote in data["quotes"]: + yield {"quote": quote["text"]} + if data["has_next"]: + self.page += 1 + url = f"http://quotes.toscrape.com/api/quotes?page={self.page}" + yield scrapy.Request(url=url, callback=self.parse) + +This spider starts at the first page of the quotes-API. With each +response, we parse the ``response.text`` and assign it to ``data``. +This lets us operate on the JSON-object like on a Python dictionary. +We iterate through the ``quotes`` and print out the ``quote["text"]``. +If the handy ``has_next`` element is ``true`` (try loading +`quotes.toscrape.com/api/quotes?page=10`_ in your browser or a +page-number greater than 10), we increment the ``page`` attribute +and ``yield`` a new request, inserting the incremented page-number +into our ``url``. + +.. _requests-from-curl: + +In more complex websites, it could be difficult to easily reproduce the +requests, as we could need to add ``headers`` or ``cookies`` to make it work. +In those cases you can export the requests in `cURL `_ +format, by right-clicking on each of them in the network tool and using the +:meth:`~scrapy.Request.from_curl()` method to generate an equivalent +request:: + + from scrapy import Request + + request = Request.from_curl( + "curl 'http://quotes.toscrape.com/api/quotes?page=1' -H 'User-Agent: Mozil" + "la/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:67.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/67.0' -H 'Acce" + "pt: */*' -H 'Accept-Language: ca,en-US;q=0.7,en;q=0.3' --compressed -H 'X" + "-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest' -H 'Proxy-Authorization: Basic QFRLLTAzM" + "zEwZTAxLTk5MWUtNDFiNC1iZWRmLTJjNGI4M2ZiNDBmNDpAVEstMDMzMTBlMDEtOTkxZS00MW" + "I0LWJlZGYtMmM0YjgzZmI0MGY0' -H 'Connection: keep-alive' -H 'Referer: http" + "://quotes.toscrape.com/scroll' -H 'Cache-Control: max-age=0'") + +Alternatively, if you want to know the arguments needed to recreate that +request you can use the :func:`~scrapy.utils.curl.curl_to_request_kwargs` +function to get a dictionary with the equivalent arguments: + +.. autofunction:: scrapy.utils.curl.curl_to_request_kwargs + +Note that to translate a cURL command into a Scrapy request, +you may use `curl2scrapy `_. + +As you can see, with a few inspections in the `Network`-tool we +were able to easily replicate the dynamic requests of the scrolling +functionality of the page. Crawling dynamic pages can be quite +daunting and pages can be very complex, but it (mostly) boils down +to identifying the correct request and replicating it in your spider. + +.. _Developer Tools: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_development_tools +.. _quotes.toscrape.com: http://quotes.toscrape.com +.. _quotes.toscrape.com/scroll: http://quotes.toscrape.com/scroll +.. _quotes.toscrape.com/api/quotes?page=10: http://quotes.toscrape.com/api/quotes?page=10 +.. _has-class-extension: https://parsel.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage.html#other-xpath-extensions + diff --git a/docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst b/docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst index 863620900..caf44a903 100644 --- a/docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst +++ b/docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ previous (or subsequent) middleware being applied. If you want to disable a built-in middleware (the ones defined in :setting:`DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES_BASE` and enabled by default) you must define it -in your project's :setting:`DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES` setting and assign `None` +in your project's :setting:`DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES` setting and assign ``None`` as its value. For example, if you want to disable the user-agent middleware:: DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = { @@ -52,11 +52,17 @@ as its value. For example, if you want to disable the user-agent middleware:: Finally, keep in mind that some middlewares may need to be enabled through a particular setting. See each middleware documentation for more info. +.. _topics-downloader-middleware-custom: + Writing your own downloader middleware ====================================== -Each middleware component is a Python class that defines one or -more of the following methods: +Each downloader middleware is a Python class that defines one or more of the +methods defined below. + +The main entry point is the ``from_crawler`` class method, which receives a +:class:`~scrapy.crawler.Crawler` instance. The :class:`~scrapy.crawler.Crawler` +object gives you access, for example, to the :ref:`settings `. .. module:: scrapy.downloadermiddlewares @@ -70,7 +76,7 @@ more of the following methods: middleware. :meth:`process_request` should either: return ``None``, return a - :class:`~scrapy.http.Response` object, return a :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` + :class:`~scrapy.Response` object, return a :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` object, or raise :exc:`~scrapy.exceptions.IgnoreRequest`. If it returns ``None``, Scrapy will continue processing this request, executing all @@ -82,7 +88,7 @@ more of the following methods: or the appropriate download function; it'll return that response. The :meth:`process_response` methods of installed middleware is always called on every response. - If it returns a :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` object, Scrapy will stop calling + If it returns a :class:`~scrapy.Request` object, Scrapy will stop calling process_request methods and reschedule the returned request. Once the newly returned request is performed, the appropriate middleware chain will be called on the downloaded response. @@ -94,22 +100,22 @@ more of the following methods: ignored and not logged (unlike other exceptions). :param request: the request being processed - :type request: :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` object + :type request: :class:`~scrapy.Request` object :param spider: the spider for which this request is intended - :type spider: :class:`~scrapy.spiders.Spider` object + :type spider: :class:`~scrapy.Spider` object .. method:: process_response(request, response, spider) :meth:`process_response` should either: return a :class:`~scrapy.http.Response` - object, return a :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` object or + object, return a :class:`~scrapy.Request` object or raise a :exc:`~scrapy.exceptions.IgnoreRequest` exception. If it returns a :class:`~scrapy.http.Response` (it could be the same given response, or a brand-new one), that response will continue to be processed with the :meth:`process_response` of the next middleware in the chain. - If it returns a :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` object, the middleware chain is + If it returns a :class:`~scrapy.Request` object, the middleware chain is halted and the returned request is rescheduled to be downloaded in the future. This is the same behavior as if a request is returned from :meth:`process_request`. @@ -118,13 +124,13 @@ more of the following methods: exception, it is ignored and not logged (unlike other exceptions). :param request: the request that originated the response - :type request: is a :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` object + :type request: is a :class:`~scrapy.Request` object :param response: the response being processed :type response: :class:`~scrapy.http.Response` object :param spider: the spider for which this response is intended - :type spider: :class:`~scrapy.spiders.Spider` object + :type spider: :class:`~scrapy.Spider` object .. method:: process_exception(request, exception, spider) @@ -133,7 +139,7 @@ more of the following methods: exception (including an :exc:`~scrapy.exceptions.IgnoreRequest` exception) :meth:`process_exception` should return: either ``None``, - a :class:`~scrapy.http.Response` object, or a :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` object. + a :class:`~scrapy.http.Response` object, or a :class:`~scrapy.Request` object. If it returns ``None``, Scrapy will continue processing this exception, executing any other :meth:`process_exception` methods of installed middleware, @@ -143,28 +149,28 @@ more of the following methods: method chain of installed middleware is started, and Scrapy won't bother calling any other :meth:`process_exception` methods of middleware. - If it returns a :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` object, the returned request is + If it returns a :class:`~scrapy.Request` object, the returned request is rescheduled to be downloaded in the future. This stops the execution of :meth:`process_exception` methods of the middleware the same as returning a response would. :param request: the request that generated the exception - :type request: is a :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` object + :type request: is a :class:`~scrapy.Request` object :param exception: the raised exception :type exception: an ``Exception`` object :param spider: the spider for which this request is intended - :type spider: :class:`~scrapy.spiders.Spider` object + :type spider: :class:`~scrapy.Spider` object .. method:: from_crawler(cls, crawler) - + If present, this classmethod is called to create a middleware instance from a :class:`~scrapy.crawler.Crawler`. It must return a new instance of the middleware. Crawler object provides access to all Scrapy core components like settings and signals; it is a way for middleware to access them and hook its functionality into Scrapy. - + :param crawler: crawler that uses this middleware :type crawler: :class:`~scrapy.crawler.Crawler` object @@ -193,9 +199,19 @@ CookiesMiddleware This middleware enables working with sites that require cookies, such as those that use sessions. It keeps track of cookies sent by web servers, and - send them back on subsequent requests (from that spider), just like web + sends them back on subsequent requests (from that spider), just like web browsers do. + .. caution:: When non-UTF8 encoded byte sequences are passed to a + :class:`~scrapy.Request`, the ``CookiesMiddleware`` will log + a warning. Refer to :ref:`topics-logging-advanced-customization` + to customize the logging behaviour. + + .. caution:: Cookies set via the ``Cookie`` header are not considered by the + :ref:`cookies-mw`. If you need to set cookies for a request, use the + :class:`Request.cookies ` parameter. This is a known + current limitation that is being worked on. + The following settings can be used to configure the cookie middleware: * :setting:`COOKIES_ENABLED` @@ -206,8 +222,6 @@ The following settings can be used to configure the cookie middleware: Multiple cookie sessions per spider ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -.. versionadded:: 0.15 - There is support for keeping multiple cookie sessions per spider by using the :reqmeta:`cookiejar` Request meta key. By default it uses a single cookie jar (session), but you can pass an identifier to use different ones. @@ -237,16 +251,14 @@ Default: ``True`` Whether to enable the cookies middleware. If disabled, no cookies will be sent to web servers. -Notice that if the :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` -has ``meta['dont_merge_cookies']`` evaluated to ``True``. -despite the value of :setting:`COOKIES_ENABLED` the cookies will **not** be -sent to web servers and received cookies in -:class:`~scrapy.http.Response` will **not** be merged with the existing -cookies. - -For more detailed information see the ``cookies`` parameter in -:class:`~scrapy.http.Request` +Notice that despite the value of :setting:`COOKIES_ENABLED` setting if +``Request.``:reqmeta:`meta['dont_merge_cookies'] ` +evaluates to ``True`` the request cookies will **not** be sent to the +web server and received cookies in :class:`~scrapy.http.Response` will +**not** be merged with the existing cookies. +For more detailed information see the ``cookies`` parameter in +:class:`~scrapy.Request`. .. setting:: COOKIES_DEBUG @@ -255,8 +267,8 @@ COOKIES_DEBUG Default: ``False`` -If enabled, Scrapy will log all cookies sent in requests (ie. ``Cookie`` -header) and all cookies received in responses (ie. ``Set-Cookie`` header). +If enabled, Scrapy will log all cookies sent in requests (i.e. ``Cookie`` +header) and all cookies received in responses (i.e. ``Set-Cookie`` header). Here's an example of a log with :setting:`COOKIES_DEBUG` enabled:: @@ -311,8 +323,21 @@ HttpAuthMiddleware This middleware authenticates all requests generated from certain spiders using `Basic access authentication`_ (aka. HTTP auth). - To enable HTTP authentication from certain spiders, set the ``http_user`` - and ``http_pass`` attributes of those spiders. + To enable HTTP authentication for a spider, set the ``http_user`` and + ``http_pass`` spider attributes to the authentication data and the + ``http_auth_domain`` spider attribute to the domain which requires this + authentication (its subdomains will be also handled in the same way). + You can set ``http_auth_domain`` to ``None`` to enable the + authentication for all requests but you risk leaking your authentication + credentials to unrelated domains. + + .. warning:: + In previous Scrapy versions HttpAuthMiddleware sent the authentication + data with all requests, which is a security problem if the spider + makes requests to several different domains. Currently if the + ``http_auth_domain`` attribute is not set, the middleware will use the + domain of the first request, which will work for some spiders but not + for others. In the future the middleware will produce an error instead. Example:: @@ -322,6 +347,7 @@ HttpAuthMiddleware http_user = 'someuser' http_pass = 'somepass' + http_auth_domain = 'intranet.example.com' name = 'intranet.example.com' # .. rest of the spider code omitted ... @@ -344,10 +370,9 @@ HttpCacheMiddleware * :ref:`httpcache-storage-fs` * :ref:`httpcache-storage-dbm` - * :ref:`httpcache-storage-leveldb` You can change the HTTP cache storage backend with the :setting:`HTTPCACHE_STORAGE` - setting. Or you can also implement your own storage backend. + setting. Or you can also :ref:`implement your own storage backend. ` Scrapy ships with two HTTP cache policies: @@ -359,26 +384,27 @@ HttpCacheMiddleware .. reqmeta:: dont_cache - You can also avoid caching a response on every policy using :reqmeta:`dont_cache` meta key equals `True`. + You can also avoid caching a response on every policy using :reqmeta:`dont_cache` meta key equals ``True``. + +.. module:: scrapy.extensions.httpcache + :noindex: .. _httpcache-policy-dummy: Dummy policy (default) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -This policy has no awareness of any HTTP Cache-Control directives. -Every request and its corresponding response are cached. When the same -request is seen again, the response is returned without transferring -anything from the Internet. +.. class:: DummyPolicy -The Dummy policy is useful for testing spiders faster (without having -to wait for downloads every time) and for trying your spider offline, -when an Internet connection is not available. The goal is to be able to -"replay" a spider run *exactly as it ran before*. + This policy has no awareness of any HTTP Cache-Control directives. + Every request and its corresponding response are cached. When the same + request is seen again, the response is returned without transferring + anything from the Internet. -In order to use this policy, set: - -* :setting:`HTTPCACHE_POLICY` to ``scrapy.extensions.httpcache.DummyPolicy`` + The Dummy policy is useful for testing spiders faster (without having + to wait for downloads every time) and for trying your spider offline, + when an Internet connection is not available. The goal is to be able to + "replay" a spider run *exactly as it ran before*. .. _httpcache-policy-rfc2616: @@ -386,45 +412,44 @@ In order to use this policy, set: RFC2616 policy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -This policy provides a RFC2616 compliant HTTP cache, i.e. with HTTP -Cache-Control awareness, aimed at production and used in continuous -runs to avoid downloading unmodified data (to save bandwidth and speed up crawls). +.. class:: RFC2616Policy -what is implemented: + This policy provides a RFC2616 compliant HTTP cache, i.e. with HTTP + Cache-Control awareness, aimed at production and used in continuous + runs to avoid downloading unmodified data (to save bandwidth and speed up + crawls). -* Do not attempt to store responses/requests with `no-store` cache-control directive set -* Do not serve responses from cache if `no-cache` cache-control directive is set even for fresh responses -* Compute freshness lifetime from `max-age` cache-control directive -* Compute freshness lifetime from `Expires` response header -* Compute freshness lifetime from `Last-Modified` response header (heuristic used by Firefox) -* Compute current age from `Age` response header -* Compute current age from `Date` header -* Revalidate stale responses based on `Last-Modified` response header -* Revalidate stale responses based on `ETag` response header -* Set `Date` header for any received response missing it -* Support `max-stale` cache-control directive in requests + What is implemented: - This allows spiders to be configured with the full RFC2616 cache policy, - but avoid revalidation on a request-by-request basis, while remaining - conformant with the HTTP spec. + * Do not attempt to store responses/requests with ``no-store`` cache-control directive set + * Do not serve responses from cache if ``no-cache`` cache-control directive is set even for fresh responses + * Compute freshness lifetime from ``max-age`` cache-control directive + * Compute freshness lifetime from ``Expires`` response header + * Compute freshness lifetime from ``Last-Modified`` response header (heuristic used by Firefox) + * Compute current age from ``Age`` response header + * Compute current age from ``Date`` header + * Revalidate stale responses based on ``Last-Modified`` response header + * Revalidate stale responses based on ``ETag`` response header + * Set ``Date`` header for any received response missing it + * Support ``max-stale`` cache-control directive in requests - Example: + This allows spiders to be configured with the full RFC2616 cache policy, + but avoid revalidation on a request-by-request basis, while remaining + conformant with the HTTP spec. - Add `Cache-Control: max-stale=600` to Request headers to accept responses that - have exceeded their expiration time by no more than 600 seconds. + Example: - See also: RFC2616, 14.9.3 + Add ``Cache-Control: max-stale=600`` to Request headers to accept responses that + have exceeded their expiration time by no more than 600 seconds. -what is missing: + See also: RFC2616, 14.9.3 -* `Pragma: no-cache` support https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.9.1 -* `Vary` header support https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec13.html#sec13.6 -* Invalidation after updates or deletes https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec13.html#sec13.10 -* ... probably others .. + What is missing: -In order to use this policy, set: - -* :setting:`HTTPCACHE_POLICY` to ``scrapy.extensions.httpcache.RFC2616Policy`` + * ``Pragma: no-cache`` support https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.9.1 + * ``Vary`` header support https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec13.html#sec13.6 + * Invalidation after updates or deletes https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec13.html#sec13.10 + * ... probably others .. .. _httpcache-storage-fs: @@ -432,67 +457,100 @@ In order to use this policy, set: Filesystem storage backend (default) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -File system storage backend is available for the HTTP cache middleware. +.. class:: FilesystemCacheStorage -In order to use this storage backend, set: + File system storage backend is available for the HTTP cache middleware. -* :setting:`HTTPCACHE_STORAGE` to ``scrapy.extensions.httpcache.FilesystemCacheStorage`` + Each request/response pair is stored in a different directory containing + the following files: -Each request/response pair is stored in a different directory containing -the following files: + * ``request_body`` - the plain request body - * ``request_body`` - the plain request body - * ``request_headers`` - the request headers (in raw HTTP format) - * ``response_body`` - the plain response body - * ``response_headers`` - the request headers (in raw HTTP format) - * ``meta`` - some metadata of this cache resource in Python ``repr()`` format - (grep-friendly format) - * ``pickled_meta`` - the same metadata in ``meta`` but pickled for more - efficient deserialization + * ``request_headers`` - the request headers (in raw HTTP format) -The directory name is made from the request fingerprint (see -``scrapy.utils.request.fingerprint``), and one level of subdirectories is -used to avoid creating too many files into the same directory (which is -inefficient in many file systems). An example directory could be:: + * ``response_body`` - the plain response body - /path/to/cache/dir/example.com/72/72811f648e718090f041317756c03adb0ada46c7 + * ``response_headers`` - the request headers (in raw HTTP format) + + * ``meta`` - some metadata of this cache resource in Python ``repr()`` + format (grep-friendly format) + + * ``pickled_meta`` - the same metadata in ``meta`` but pickled for more + efficient deserialization + + The directory name is made from the request fingerprint (see + ``scrapy.utils.request.fingerprint``), and one level of subdirectories is + used to avoid creating too many files into the same directory (which is + inefficient in many file systems). An example directory could be:: + + /path/to/cache/dir/example.com/72/72811f648e718090f041317756c03adb0ada46c7 .. _httpcache-storage-dbm: DBM storage backend ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -.. versionadded:: 0.13 +.. class:: DbmCacheStorage -A DBM_ storage backend is also available for the HTTP cache middleware. + A DBM_ storage backend is also available for the HTTP cache middleware. -By default, it uses the anydbm_ module, but you can change it with the -:setting:`HTTPCACHE_DBM_MODULE` setting. + By default, it uses the :mod:`dbm`, but you can change it with the + :setting:`HTTPCACHE_DBM_MODULE` setting. -In order to use this storage backend, set: +.. _httpcache-storage-custom: -* :setting:`HTTPCACHE_STORAGE` to ``scrapy.extensions.httpcache.DbmCacheStorage`` +Writing your own storage backend +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -.. _httpcache-storage-leveldb: +You can implement a cache storage backend by creating a Python class that +defines the methods described below. -LevelDB storage backend -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +.. module:: scrapy.extensions.httpcache -.. versionadded:: 0.23 +.. class:: CacheStorage -A LevelDB_ storage backend is also available for the HTTP cache middleware. + .. method:: open_spider(spider) -This backend is not recommended for development because only one process can -access LevelDB databases at the same time, so you can't run a crawl and open -the scrapy shell in parallel for the same spider. + This method gets called after a spider has been opened for crawling. It handles + the :signal:`open_spider ` signal. -In order to use this storage backend: + :param spider: the spider which has been opened + :type spider: :class:`~scrapy.Spider` object -* set :setting:`HTTPCACHE_STORAGE` to ``scrapy.extensions.httpcache.LeveldbCacheStorage`` -* install `LevelDB python bindings`_ like ``pip install leveldb`` + .. method:: close_spider(spider) -.. _LevelDB: https://github.com/google/leveldb -.. _leveldb python bindings: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/leveldb + This method gets called after a spider has been closed. It handles + the :signal:`close_spider ` signal. + + :param spider: the spider which has been closed + :type spider: :class:`~scrapy.Spider` object + + .. method:: retrieve_response(spider, request) + + Return response if present in cache, or ``None`` otherwise. + + :param spider: the spider which generated the request + :type spider: :class:`~scrapy.Spider` object + + :param request: the request to find cached response for + :type request: :class:`~scrapy.Request` object + + .. method:: store_response(spider, request, response) + + Store the given response in the cache. + + :param spider: the spider for which the response is intended + :type spider: :class:`~scrapy.Spider` object + + :param request: the corresponding request the spider generated + :type request: :class:`~scrapy.Request` object + + :param response: the response to store in the cache + :type response: :class:`~scrapy.http.Response` object + +In order to use your storage backend, set: + +* :setting:`HTTPCACHE_STORAGE` to the Python import path of your custom storage class. HTTPCache middleware settings @@ -506,15 +564,10 @@ settings: HTTPCACHE_ENABLED ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -.. versionadded:: 0.11 - Default: ``False`` Whether the HTTP cache will be enabled. -.. versionchanged:: 0.11 - Before 0.11, :setting:`HTTPCACHE_DIR` was used to enable cache. - .. setting:: HTTPCACHE_EXPIRATION_SECS HTTPCACHE_EXPIRATION_SECS @@ -527,9 +580,6 @@ Expiration time for cached requests, in seconds. Cached requests older than this time will be re-downloaded. If zero, cached requests will never expire. -.. versionchanged:: 0.11 - Before 0.11, zero meant cached requests always expire. - .. setting:: HTTPCACHE_DIR HTTPCACHE_DIR @@ -546,8 +596,6 @@ project data dir. For more info see: :ref:`topics-project-structure`. HTTPCACHE_IGNORE_HTTP_CODES ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -.. versionadded:: 0.10 - Default: ``[]`` Don't cache response with these HTTP codes. @@ -566,8 +614,6 @@ If enabled, requests not found in the cache will be ignored instead of downloade HTTPCACHE_IGNORE_SCHEMES ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -.. versionadded:: 0.10 - Default: ``['file']`` Don't cache responses with these URI schemes. @@ -586,9 +632,7 @@ The class which implements the cache storage backend. HTTPCACHE_DBM_MODULE ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -.. versionadded:: 0.13 - -Default: ``'anydbm'`` +Default: ``'dbm'`` The database module to use in the :ref:`DBM storage backend `. This setting is specific to the DBM backend. @@ -598,8 +642,6 @@ The database module to use in the :ref:`DBM storage backend HTTPCACHE_POLICY ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -.. versionadded:: 0.18 - Default: ``'scrapy.extensions.httpcache.DummyPolicy'`` The class which implements the cache policy. @@ -609,8 +651,6 @@ The class which implements the cache policy. HTTPCACHE_GZIP ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -.. versionadded:: 1.0 - Default: ``False`` If enabled, will compress all cached data with gzip. @@ -621,34 +661,30 @@ This setting is specific to the Filesystem backend. HTTPCACHE_ALWAYS_STORE ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -.. versionadded:: 1.1 - Default: ``False`` If enabled, will cache pages unconditionally. A spider may wish to have all responses available in the cache, for -future use with `Cache-Control: max-stale`, for instance. The +future use with ``Cache-Control: max-stale``, for instance. The DummyPolicy caches all responses but never revalidates them, and sometimes a more nuanced policy is desirable. -This setting still respects `Cache-Control: no-store` directives in responses. -If you don't want that, filter `no-store` out of the Cache-Control headers in -responses you feedto the cache middleware. +This setting still respects ``Cache-Control: no-store`` directives in responses. +If you don't want that, filter ``no-store`` out of the Cache-Control headers in +responses you feed to the cache middleware. .. setting:: HTTPCACHE_IGNORE_RESPONSE_CACHE_CONTROLS HTTPCACHE_IGNORE_RESPONSE_CACHE_CONTROLS ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -.. versionadded:: 1.1 - Default: ``[]`` List of Cache-Control directives in responses to be ignored. Sites often set "no-store", "no-cache", "must-revalidate", etc., but get -upset at the traffic a spider can generate if it respects those +upset at the traffic a spider can generate if it actually respects those directives. This allows to selectively ignore Cache-Control directives that are known to be unimportant for the sites being crawled. @@ -667,11 +703,14 @@ HttpCompressionMiddleware This middleware allows compressed (gzip, deflate) traffic to be sent/received from web sites. - This middleware also supports decoding `brotli-compressed`_ responses, - provided `brotlipy`_ is installed. + This middleware also supports decoding `brotli-compressed`_ as well as + `zstd-compressed`_ responses, provided that `brotlipy`_ or `zstandard`_ is + installed, respectively. .. _brotli-compressed: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc7932.txt -.. _brotlipy: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/brotlipy +.. _brotlipy: https://pypi.org/project/brotlipy/ +.. _zstd-compressed: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc8478.txt +.. _zstandard: https://pypi.org/project/zstandard/ HttpCompressionMiddleware Settings ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -692,16 +731,14 @@ HttpProxyMiddleware .. module:: scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpproxy :synopsis: Http Proxy Middleware -.. versionadded:: 0.8 - .. reqmeta:: proxy .. class:: HttpProxyMiddleware This middleware sets the HTTP proxy to use for requests, by setting the - ``proxy`` meta value for :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` objects. + ``proxy`` meta value for :class:`~scrapy.Request` objects. - Like the Python standard library modules `urllib`_ and `urllib2`_, it obeys + Like the Python standard library module :mod:`urllib.request`, it obeys the following environment variables: * ``http_proxy`` @@ -713,9 +750,6 @@ HttpProxyMiddleware Keep in mind this value will take precedence over ``http_proxy``/``https_proxy`` environment variables, and it will also ignore ``no_proxy`` environment variable. -.. _urllib: https://docs.python.org/2/library/urllib.html -.. _urllib2: https://docs.python.org/2/library/urllib2.html - RedirectMiddleware ------------------ @@ -729,7 +763,18 @@ RedirectMiddleware .. reqmeta:: redirect_urls The urls which the request goes through (while being redirected) can be found -in the ``redirect_urls`` :attr:`Request.meta ` key. +in the ``redirect_urls`` :attr:`Request.meta ` key. + +.. reqmeta:: redirect_reasons + +The reason behind each redirect in :reqmeta:`redirect_urls` can be found in the +``redirect_reasons`` :attr:`Request.meta ` key. For +example: ``[301, 302, 307, 'meta refresh']``. + +The format of a reason depends on the middleware that handled the corresponding +redirect. For example, :class:`RedirectMiddleware` indicates the triggering +response status code as an integer, while :class:`MetaRefreshMiddleware` +always uses the ``'meta refresh'`` string as reason. The :class:`RedirectMiddleware` can be configured through the following settings (see the settings documentation for more info): @@ -739,7 +784,7 @@ settings (see the settings documentation for more info): .. reqmeta:: dont_redirect -If :attr:`Request.meta ` has ``dont_redirect`` +If :attr:`Request.meta ` has ``dont_redirect`` key set to True, the request will be ignored by this middleware. If you want to handle some redirect status codes in your spider, you can @@ -752,7 +797,7 @@ responses (and pass them through to your spider) you can do this:: handle_httpstatus_list = [301, 302] The ``handle_httpstatus_list`` key of :attr:`Request.meta -` can also be used to specify which response codes to +` can also be used to specify which response codes to allow on a per-request basis. You can also set the meta key ``handle_httpstatus_all`` to ``True`` if you want to allow any response code for a request. @@ -766,8 +811,6 @@ RedirectMiddleware settings REDIRECT_ENABLED ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -.. versionadded:: 0.13 - Default: ``True`` Whether the Redirect middleware will be enabled. @@ -780,6 +823,7 @@ REDIRECT_MAX_TIMES Default: ``20`` The maximum number of redirections that will be followed for a single request. +After this maximum, the request's response is returned as is. MetaRefreshMiddleware --------------------- @@ -792,10 +836,12 @@ The :class:`MetaRefreshMiddleware` can be configured through the following settings (see the settings documentation for more info): * :setting:`METAREFRESH_ENABLED` +* :setting:`METAREFRESH_IGNORE_TAGS` * :setting:`METAREFRESH_MAXDELAY` -This middleware obey :setting:`REDIRECT_MAX_TIMES` setting, :reqmeta:`dont_redirect` -and :reqmeta:`redirect_urls` request meta keys as described for :class:`RedirectMiddleware` +This middleware obey :setting:`REDIRECT_MAX_TIMES` setting, :reqmeta:`dont_redirect`, +:reqmeta:`redirect_urls` and :reqmeta:`redirect_reasons` request meta keys as described +for :class:`RedirectMiddleware` MetaRefreshMiddleware settings @@ -806,12 +852,23 @@ MetaRefreshMiddleware settings METAREFRESH_ENABLED ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -.. versionadded:: 0.17 - Default: ``True`` Whether the Meta Refresh middleware will be enabled. +.. setting:: METAREFRESH_IGNORE_TAGS + +METAREFRESH_IGNORE_TAGS +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +Default: ``[]`` + +Meta tags within these tags are ignored. + +.. versionchanged:: 2.0 + The default value of :setting:`METAREFRESH_IGNORE_TAGS` changed from + ``['script', 'noscript']`` to ``[]``. + .. setting:: METAREFRESH_MAXDELAY METAREFRESH_MAXDELAY @@ -836,8 +893,6 @@ RetryMiddleware Failed pages are collected on the scraping process and rescheduled at the end, once the spider has finished crawling all regular (non failed) pages. -Once there are no more failed pages to retry, this middleware sends a signal -(retry_complete), so other extensions could connect to that signal. The :class:`RetryMiddleware` can be configured through the following settings (see the settings documentation for more info): @@ -848,9 +903,14 @@ settings (see the settings documentation for more info): .. reqmeta:: dont_retry -If :attr:`Request.meta ` has ``dont_retry`` key +If :attr:`Request.meta ` has ``dont_retry`` key set to True, the request will be ignored by this middleware. +To retry requests from a spider callback, you can use the +:func:`get_retry_request` function: + +.. autofunction:: get_retry_request + RetryMiddleware Settings ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -859,8 +919,6 @@ RetryMiddleware Settings RETRY_ENABLED ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -.. versionadded:: 0.13 - Default: ``True`` Whether the Retry middleware will be enabled. @@ -875,7 +933,7 @@ Default: ``2`` Maximum number of times to retry, in addition to the first download. Maximum number of retries can also be specified per-request using -:reqmeta:`max_retry_times` attribute of :attr:`Request.meta `. +:reqmeta:`max_retry_times` attribute of :attr:`Request.meta `. When initialized, the :reqmeta:`max_retry_times` meta key takes higher precedence over the :setting:`RETRY_TIMES` setting. @@ -884,7 +942,7 @@ precedence over the :setting:`RETRY_TIMES` setting. RETRY_HTTP_CODES ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -Default: ``[500, 502, 503, 504, 408]`` +Default: ``[500, 502, 503, 504, 522, 524, 408, 429]`` Which HTTP response codes to retry. Other errors (DNS lookup issues, connections lost, etc) are always retried. @@ -893,6 +951,18 @@ In some cases you may want to add 400 to :setting:`RETRY_HTTP_CODES` because it is a common code used to indicate server overload. It is not included by default because HTTP specs say so. +.. setting:: RETRY_PRIORITY_ADJUST + +RETRY_PRIORITY_ADJUST +--------------------- + +Default: ``-1`` + +Adjust retry request priority relative to original request: + +- a positive priority adjust means higher priority. +- **a negative priority adjust (default) means lower priority.** + .. _topics-dlmw-robots: @@ -910,13 +980,157 @@ RobotsTxtMiddleware To make sure Scrapy respects robots.txt make sure the middleware is enabled and the :setting:`ROBOTSTXT_OBEY` setting is enabled. + The :setting:`ROBOTSTXT_USER_AGENT` setting can be used to specify the + user agent string to use for matching in the robots.txt_ file. If it + is ``None``, the User-Agent header you are sending with the request or the + :setting:`USER_AGENT` setting (in that order) will be used for determining + the user agent to use in the robots.txt_ file. + + This middleware has to be combined with a robots.txt_ parser. + + Scrapy ships with support for the following robots.txt_ parsers: + + * :ref:`Protego ` (default) + * :ref:`RobotFileParser ` + * :ref:`Reppy ` + * :ref:`Robotexclusionrulesparser ` + + You can change the robots.txt_ parser with the :setting:`ROBOTSTXT_PARSER` + setting. Or you can also :ref:`implement support for a new parser `. + .. reqmeta:: dont_obey_robotstxt -If :attr:`Request.meta ` has +If :attr:`Request.meta ` has ``dont_obey_robotstxt`` key set to True the request will be ignored by this middleware even if :setting:`ROBOTSTXT_OBEY` is enabled. +Parsers vary in several aspects: + +* Language of implementation + +* Supported specification + +* Support for wildcard matching + +* Usage of `length based rule `_: + in particular for ``Allow`` and ``Disallow`` directives, where the most + specific rule based on the length of the path trumps the less specific + (shorter) rule + +Performance comparison of different parsers is available at `the following link +`_. + +.. _protego-parser: + +Protego parser +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Based on `Protego `_: + +* implemented in Python + +* is compliant with `Google's Robots.txt Specification + `_ + +* supports wildcard matching + +* uses the length based rule + +Scrapy uses this parser by default. + +.. _python-robotfileparser: + +RobotFileParser +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Based on :class:`~urllib.robotparser.RobotFileParser`: + +* is Python's built-in robots.txt_ parser + +* is compliant with `Martijn Koster's 1996 draft specification + `_ + +* lacks support for wildcard matching + +* doesn't use the length based rule + +It is faster than Protego and backward-compatible with versions of Scrapy before 1.8.0. + +In order to use this parser, set: + +* :setting:`ROBOTSTXT_PARSER` to ``scrapy.robotstxt.PythonRobotParser`` + +.. _reppy-parser: + +Reppy parser +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Based on `Reppy `_: + +* is a Python wrapper around `Robots Exclusion Protocol Parser for C++ + `_ + +* is compliant with `Martijn Koster's 1996 draft specification + `_ + +* supports wildcard matching + +* uses the length based rule + +Native implementation, provides better speed than Protego. + +In order to use this parser: + +* Install `Reppy `_ by running ``pip install reppy`` + + .. warning:: `Upstream issue #122 + `_ prevents reppy usage in Python 3.9+. + +* Set :setting:`ROBOTSTXT_PARSER` setting to + ``scrapy.robotstxt.ReppyRobotParser`` + + +.. _rerp-parser: + +Robotexclusionrulesparser +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Based on `Robotexclusionrulesparser `_: + +* implemented in Python + +* is compliant with `Martijn Koster's 1996 draft specification + `_ + +* supports wildcard matching + +* doesn't use the length based rule + +In order to use this parser: + +* Install `Robotexclusionrulesparser `_ by running + ``pip install robotexclusionrulesparser`` + +* Set :setting:`ROBOTSTXT_PARSER` setting to + ``scrapy.robotstxt.RerpRobotParser`` + +.. _support-for-new-robots-parser: + +Implementing support for a new parser +------------------------------------- + +You can implement support for a new robots.txt_ parser by subclassing +the abstract base class :class:`~scrapy.robotstxt.RobotParser` and +implementing the methods described below. + +.. module:: scrapy.robotstxt + :synopsis: robots.txt parser interface and implementations + +.. autoclass:: RobotParser + :members: + +.. _robots.txt: https://www.robotstxt.org/ DownloaderStats --------------- @@ -942,7 +1156,7 @@ UserAgentMiddleware Middleware that allows spiders to override the default user agent. - In order for a spider to override the default user agent, its `user_agent` + In order for a spider to override the default user agent, its ``user_agent`` attribute must be set. .. _ajaxcrawl-middleware: @@ -956,7 +1170,7 @@ AjaxCrawlMiddleware Middleware that finds 'AJAX crawlable' page variants based on meta-fragment html tag. See - https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/getting-started + https://developers.google.com/search/docs/ajax-crawling/docs/getting-started for more info. .. note:: @@ -974,8 +1188,6 @@ AjaxCrawlMiddleware Settings AJAXCRAWL_ENABLED ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -.. versionadded:: 0.21 - Default: ``False`` Whether the AjaxCrawlMiddleware will be enabled. You may want to @@ -1003,4 +1215,3 @@ The default encoding for proxy authentication on :class:`HttpProxyMiddleware`. .. _DBM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dbm -.. _anydbm: https://docs.python.org/2/library/anydbm.html diff --git a/docs/topics/dynamic-content.rst b/docs/topics/dynamic-content.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ea5d06210 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/topics/dynamic-content.rst @@ -0,0 +1,291 @@ +.. _topics-dynamic-content: + +==================================== +Selecting dynamically-loaded content +==================================== + +Some webpages show the desired data when you load them in a web browser. +However, when you download them using Scrapy, you cannot reach the desired data +using :ref:`selectors `. + +When this happens, the recommended approach is to +:ref:`find the data source ` and extract the data +from it. + +If you fail to do that, and you can nonetheless access the desired data through +the :ref:`DOM ` from your web browser, see +:ref:`topics-javascript-rendering`. + +.. _topics-finding-data-source: + +Finding the data source +======================= + +To extract the desired data, you must first find its source location. + +If the data is in a non-text-based format, such as an image or a PDF document, +use the :ref:`network tool ` of your web browser to find +the corresponding request, and :ref:`reproduce it +`. + +If your web browser lets you select the desired data as text, the data may be +defined in embedded JavaScript code, or loaded from an external resource in a +text-based format. + +In that case, you can use a tool like wgrep_ to find the URL of that resource. + +If the data turns out to come from the original URL itself, you must +:ref:`inspect the source code of the webpage ` to +determine where the data is located. + +If the data comes from a different URL, you will need to :ref:`reproduce the +corresponding request `. + +.. _topics-inspecting-source: + +Inspecting the source code of a webpage +======================================= + +Sometimes you need to inspect the source code of a webpage (not the +:ref:`DOM `) to determine where some desired data is located. + +Use Scrapy’s :command:`fetch` command to download the webpage contents as seen +by Scrapy:: + + scrapy fetch --nolog https://example.com > response.html + +If the desired data is in embedded JavaScript code within a ``