diff --git a/docs/topics/link-extractors.rst b/docs/topics/link-extractors.rst
index 75bdb4142..01d7f0b97 100644
--- a/docs/topics/link-extractors.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/link-extractors.rst
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ LxmlLinkExtractor
:synopsis: lxml's HTMLParser-based link extractors
-.. class:: LxmlLinkExtractor(allow=(), deny=(), allow_domains=(), deny_domains=(), deny_extensions=None, restrict_xpaths=(), restrict_css=(), tags=('a', 'area'), attrs=('href',), canonicalize=True, unique=True, process_value=None, strip=True)
+.. class:: LxmlLinkExtractor(allow=(), deny=(), allow_domains=(), deny_domains=(), deny_extensions=None, restrict_xpaths=(), restrict_css=(), tags=('a', 'area'), attrs=('href',), canonicalize=False, unique=True, process_value=None, strip=True)
LxmlLinkExtractor is the recommended link extractor with handy filtering
options. It is implemented using lxml's robust HTMLParser.
@@ -103,7 +103,12 @@ LxmlLinkExtractor
:type attrs: list
:param canonicalize: canonicalize each extracted url (using
- w3lib.url.canonicalize_url). Defaults to ``True``.
+ w3lib.url.canonicalize_url). Defaults to ``False``.
+ Note that canonicalize_url is meant for duplicate checking;
+ it can change the URL visible at server side, so the response can be
+ different for requests with canonicalized and raw URLs. If you're
+ using LinkExtractor to follow links it is more robust to
+ keep the default ``canonicalize=False``.
:type canonicalize: boolean
:param unique: whether duplicate filtering should be applied to extracted
diff --git a/scrapy/linkextractors/__init__.py b/scrapy/linkextractors/__init__.py
index e5d21e174..8676c3b92 100644
--- a/scrapy/linkextractors/__init__.py
+++ b/scrapy/linkextractors/__init__.py
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ class FilteringLinkExtractor(object):
links = [x for x in links if self._link_allowed(x)]
if self.canonicalize:
for link in links:
- link.url = canonicalize_url(urlparse(link.url))
+ link.url = canonicalize_url(link.url)
links = self.link_extractor._process_links(links)
return links
diff --git a/scrapy/linkextractors/lxmlhtml.py b/scrapy/linkextractors/lxmlhtml.py
index c284f1905..a7092f9b8 100644
--- a/scrapy/linkextractors/lxmlhtml.py
+++ b/scrapy/linkextractors/lxmlhtml.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ from six.moves.urllib.parse import urljoin
import lxml.etree as etree
from w3lib.html import strip_html5_whitespace
+from w3lib.url import canonicalize_url
from scrapy.link import Link
from scrapy.utils.misc import arg_to_iter, rel_has_nofollow
@@ -29,12 +30,17 @@ def _nons(tag):
class LxmlParserLinkExtractor(object):
def __init__(self, tag="a", attr="href", process=None, unique=False,
- strip=True):
+ strip=True, canonicalized=False):
self.scan_tag = tag if callable(tag) else lambda t: t == tag
self.scan_attr = attr if callable(attr) else lambda a: a == attr
self.process_attr = process if callable(process) else lambda v: v
self.unique = unique
self.strip = strip
+ if canonicalized:
+ self.link_key = lambda link: link.url
+ else:
+ self.link_key = lambda link: canonicalize_url(link.url,
+ keep_fragments=True)
def _iter_links(self, document):
for el in document.iter(etree.Element):
@@ -82,21 +88,27 @@ class LxmlParserLinkExtractor(object):
def _deduplicate_if_needed(self, links):
if self.unique:
- return unique_list(links, key=lambda link: link.url)
+ return unique_list(links, key=self.link_key)
return links
class LxmlLinkExtractor(FilteringLinkExtractor):
def __init__(self, allow=(), deny=(), allow_domains=(), deny_domains=(), restrict_xpaths=(),
- tags=('a', 'area'), attrs=('href',), canonicalize=True,
+ tags=('a', 'area'), attrs=('href',), canonicalize=False,
unique=True, process_value=None, deny_extensions=None, restrict_css=(),
strip=True):
tags, attrs = set(arg_to_iter(tags)), set(arg_to_iter(attrs))
tag_func = lambda x: x in tags
attr_func = lambda x: x in attrs
- lx = LxmlParserLinkExtractor(tag=tag_func, attr=attr_func,
- unique=unique, process=process_value, strip=strip)
+ lx = LxmlParserLinkExtractor(
+ tag=tag_func,
+ attr=attr_func,
+ unique=unique,
+ process=process_value,
+ strip=strip,
+ canonicalized=canonicalize
+ )
super(LxmlLinkExtractor, self).__init__(lx, allow=allow, deny=deny,
allow_domains=allow_domains, deny_domains=deny_domains,
diff --git a/scrapy/linkextractors/sgml.py b/scrapy/linkextractors/sgml.py
index 11ff7a261..f4ca4262a 100644
--- a/scrapy/linkextractors/sgml.py
+++ b/scrapy/linkextractors/sgml.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ from six.moves.urllib.parse import urljoin
import warnings
from sgmllib import SGMLParser
-from w3lib.url import safe_url_string
+from w3lib.url import safe_url_string, canonicalize_url
from w3lib.html import strip_html5_whitespace
from scrapy.link import Link
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ from scrapy.exceptions import ScrapyDeprecationWarning
class BaseSgmlLinkExtractor(SGMLParser):
def __init__(self, tag="a", attr="href", unique=False, process_value=None,
- strip=True):
+ strip=True, canonicalized=False):
warnings.warn(
"BaseSgmlLinkExtractor is deprecated and will be removed in future releases. "
"Please use scrapy.linkextractors.LinkExtractor",
@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ class BaseSgmlLinkExtractor(SGMLParser):
self.current_link = None
self.unique = unique
self.strip = strip
+ if canonicalized:
+ self.link_key = lambda link: link.url
+ else:
+ self.link_key = lambda link: canonicalize_url(link.url,
+ keep_fragments=True)
def _extract_links(self, response_text, response_url, response_encoding, base_url=None):
""" Do the real extraction work """
@@ -61,8 +66,7 @@ class BaseSgmlLinkExtractor(SGMLParser):
The subclass should override it if necessary
"""
- links = unique_list(links, key=lambda link: link.url) if self.unique else links
- return links
+ return unique_list(links, key=self.link_key) if self.unique else links
def extract_links(self, response):
# wrapper needed to allow to work directly with text
@@ -107,10 +111,9 @@ class BaseSgmlLinkExtractor(SGMLParser):
class SgmlLinkExtractor(FilteringLinkExtractor):
def __init__(self, allow=(), deny=(), allow_domains=(), deny_domains=(), restrict_xpaths=(),
- tags=('a', 'area'), attrs=('href',), canonicalize=True, unique=True,
+ tags=('a', 'area'), attrs=('href',), canonicalize=False, unique=True,
process_value=None, deny_extensions=None, restrict_css=(),
strip=True):
-
warnings.warn(
"SgmlLinkExtractor is deprecated and will be removed in future releases. "
"Please use scrapy.linkextractors.LinkExtractor",
@@ -124,7 +127,8 @@ class SgmlLinkExtractor(FilteringLinkExtractor):
with warnings.catch_warnings():
warnings.simplefilter('ignore', ScrapyDeprecationWarning)
lx = BaseSgmlLinkExtractor(tag=tag_func, attr=attr_func,
- unique=unique, process_value=process_value, strip=strip)
+ unique=unique, process_value=process_value, strip=strip,
+ canonicalized=canonicalize)
super(SgmlLinkExtractor, self).__init__(lx, allow=allow, deny=deny,
allow_domains=allow_domains, deny_domains=deny_domains,
diff --git a/tests/sample_data/link_extractor/sgml_linkextractor.html b/tests/sample_data/link_extractor/sgml_linkextractor.html
index fbb803f2d..7d5db368a 100644
--- a/tests/sample_data/link_extractor/sgml_linkextractor.html
+++ b/tests/sample_data/link_extractor/sgml_linkextractor.html
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
sample 3 text
sample 3 repetition
+sample 3 repetition with fragment
inner tag
href with whitespaces
diff --git a/tests/test_http_response.py b/tests/test_http_response.py
index 924bb7979..779f5a71c 100644
--- a/tests/test_http_response.py
+++ b/tests/test_http_response.py
@@ -392,6 +392,7 @@ class TextResponseTest(BaseResponseTest):
'http://example.com/sample2.html',
'http://example.com/sample3.html',
'http://example.com/sample3.html',
+ 'http://example.com/sample3.html#foo',
'http://www.google.com/something',
'http://example.com/innertag.html'
]
diff --git a/tests/test_linkextractors.py b/tests/test_linkextractors.py
index 340c64f35..1d7c4f311 100644
--- a/tests/test_linkextractors.py
+++ b/tests/test_linkextractors.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ from tests import get_testdata
class Base:
class LinkExtractorTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
extractor_cls = None
+ escapes_whitespace = False
def setUp(self):
body = get_testdata('link_extractor', 'sgml_linkextractor.html')
@@ -26,13 +27,19 @@ class Base:
def test_extract_all_links(self):
lx = self.extractor_cls()
+ if self.escapes_whitespace:
+ page4_url = 'http://example.com/page%204.html'
+ else:
+ page4_url = 'http://example.com/page 4.html'
+
self.assertEqual([link for link in lx.extract_links(self.response)], [
Link(url='http://example.com/sample1.html', text=u''),
Link(url='http://example.com/sample2.html', text=u'sample 2'),
Link(url='http://example.com/sample3.html', text=u'sample 3 text'),
+ Link(url='http://example.com/sample3.html#foo', text='sample 3 repetition with fragment'),
Link(url='http://www.google.com/something', text=u''),
Link(url='http://example.com/innertag.html', text=u'inner tag'),
- Link(url='http://example.com/page%204.html', text=u'href with whitespaces'),
+ Link(url=page4_url, text=u'href with whitespaces'),
])
def test_extract_filter_allow(self):
@@ -41,6 +48,7 @@ class Base:
Link(url='http://example.com/sample1.html', text=u''),
Link(url='http://example.com/sample2.html', text=u'sample 2'),
Link(url='http://example.com/sample3.html', text=u'sample 3 text'),
+ Link(url='http://example.com/sample3.html#foo', text='sample 3 repetition with fragment')
])
def test_extract_filter_allow_with_duplicates(self):
@@ -50,6 +58,27 @@ class Base:
Link(url='http://example.com/sample2.html', text=u'sample 2'),
Link(url='http://example.com/sample3.html', text=u'sample 3 text'),
Link(url='http://example.com/sample3.html', text=u'sample 3 repetition'),
+ Link(url='http://example.com/sample3.html#foo', text='sample 3 repetition with fragment')
+ ])
+
+ def test_extract_filter_allow_with_duplicates_canonicalize(self):
+ lx = self.extractor_cls(allow=('sample', ), unique=False,
+ canonicalize=True)
+ self.assertEqual([link for link in lx.extract_links(self.response)], [
+ Link(url='http://example.com/sample1.html', text=u''),
+ Link(url='http://example.com/sample2.html', text=u'sample 2'),
+ Link(url='http://example.com/sample3.html', text=u'sample 3 text'),
+ Link(url='http://example.com/sample3.html', text=u'sample 3 repetition'),
+ Link(url='http://example.com/sample3.html', text='sample 3 repetition with fragment')
+ ])
+
+ def test_extract_filter_allow_no_duplicates_canonicalize(self):
+ lx = self.extractor_cls(allow=('sample',), unique=True,
+ canonicalize=True)
+ self.assertEqual([link for link in lx.extract_links(self.response)], [
+ Link(url='http://example.com/sample1.html', text=u''),
+ Link(url='http://example.com/sample2.html', text=u'sample 2'),
+ Link(url='http://example.com/sample3.html', text=u'sample 3 text'),
])
def test_extract_filter_allow_and_deny(self):
@@ -73,6 +102,8 @@ class Base:
Link(url='http://example.com/sample1.html', text=u''),
Link(url='http://example.com/sample2.html', text=u'sample 2'),
Link(url='http://example.com/sample3.html', text=u'sample 3 text'),
+ Link(url='http://example.com/sample3.html#foo',
+ text='sample 3 repetition with fragment')
])
lx = self.extractor_cls(allow='sample', deny='3')
@@ -276,13 +307,19 @@ class Base:
def test_attrs(self):
lx = self.extractor_cls(attrs="href")
+ if self.escapes_whitespace:
+ page4_url = 'http://example.com/page%204.html'
+ else:
+ page4_url = 'http://example.com/page 4.html'
+
self.assertEqual(lx.extract_links(self.response), [
Link(url='http://example.com/sample1.html', text=u''),
Link(url='http://example.com/sample2.html', text=u'sample 2'),
Link(url='http://example.com/sample3.html', text=u'sample 3 text'),
+ Link(url='http://example.com/sample3.html#foo', text='sample 3 repetition with fragment'),
Link(url='http://www.google.com/something', text=u''),
Link(url='http://example.com/innertag.html', text=u'inner tag'),
- Link(url='http://example.com/page%204.html', text=u'href with whitespaces'),
+ Link(url=page4_url, text=u'href with whitespaces'),
])
lx = self.extractor_cls(attrs=("href","src"), tags=("a","area","img"), deny_extensions=())
@@ -291,9 +328,10 @@ class Base:
Link(url='http://example.com/sample2.html', text=u'sample 2'),
Link(url='http://example.com/sample2.jpg', text=u''),
Link(url='http://example.com/sample3.html', text=u'sample 3 text'),
+ Link(url='http://example.com/sample3.html#foo', text='sample 3 repetition with fragment'),
Link(url='http://www.google.com/something', text=u''),
Link(url='http://example.com/innertag.html', text=u'inner tag'),
- Link(url='http://example.com/page%204.html', text=u'href with whitespaces'),
+ Link(url=page4_url, text=u'href with whitespaces'),
])
lx = self.extractor_cls(attrs=None)
diff --git a/tests/test_linkextractors_deprecated.py b/tests/test_linkextractors_deprecated.py
index fef227aa1..1366971be 100644
--- a/tests/test_linkextractors_deprecated.py
+++ b/tests/test_linkextractors_deprecated.py
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ class HtmlParserLinkExtractorTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
Link(url='http://example.com/sample2.html', text=u'sample 2'),
Link(url='http://example.com/sample3.html', text=u'sample 3 text'),
Link(url='http://example.com/sample3.html', text=u'sample 3 repetition'),
+ Link(url='http://example.com/sample3.html#foo', text=u'sample 3 repetition with fragment'),
Link(url='http://www.google.com/something', text=u''),
Link(url='http://example.com/innertag.html', text=u'inner tag'),
Link(url='http://example.com/page%204.html', text=u'href with whitespaces'),
@@ -142,6 +143,7 @@ class HtmlParserLinkExtractorTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
class SgmlLinkExtractorTestCase(Base.LinkExtractorTestCase):
extractor_cls = SgmlLinkExtractor
+ escapes_whitespace = True
def test_deny_extensions(self):
html = """asd and """
@@ -190,6 +192,7 @@ class RegexLinkExtractorTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
self.assertEqual(lx.extract_links(self.response),
[Link(url='http://example.com/sample2.html', text=u'sample 2'),
Link(url='http://example.com/sample3.html', text=u'sample 3 text'),
+ Link(url='http://example.com/sample3.html#foo', text=u'sample 3 repetition with fragment'),
Link(url='http://www.google.com/something', text=u''),
Link(url='http://example.com/innertag.html', text=u'inner tag'),])