diff --git a/docs/topics/commands.rst b/docs/topics/commands.rst
index 32669104c..6636c30cb 100644
--- a/docs/topics/commands.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/commands.rst
@@ -322,6 +322,14 @@ So this command can be used to "see" how your spider would fetch a certain page.
If used outside a project, no particular per-spider behaviour would be applied
and it will just use the default Scrapy downloader settings.
+Supported options:
+
+* ``--spider=SPIDER``: bypass spider autodetection and force use of specific spider
+
+* ``--headers``: print the response's HTTP headers instead of the response's body
+
+* ``--no-redirect``: do not follow HTTP 3xx redirects (default is to follow them)
+
Usage examples::
$ scrapy fetch --nolog http://www.example.com/some/page.html
@@ -368,11 +376,34 @@ given. Also supports UNIX-style local file paths, either relative with
``./`` or ``../`` prefixes or absolute file paths.
See :ref:`topics-shell` for more info.
+Supported options:
+
+* ``--spider=SPIDER``: bypass spider autodetection and force use of specific spider
+
+* ``-c code``: evaluate the code in the shell, print the result and exit
+
+* ``--no-redirect``: do not follow HTTP 3xx redirects (default is to follow them);
+ this only affects the URL you may pass as argument on the command line;
+ once you are inside the shell, ``fetch(url)`` will still follow HTTP redirects by default.
+
Usage example::
$ scrapy shell http://www.example.com/some/page.html
[ ... scrapy shell starts ... ]
+ $ scrapy shell --nolog http://www.example.com/ -c '(response.status, response.url)'
+ (200, 'http://www.example.com/')
+
+ # shell follows HTTP redirects by default
+ $ scrapy shell --nolog http://httpbin.org/redirect-to?url=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2F -c '(response.status, response.url)'
+ (200, 'http://example.com/')
+
+ # you can disable this with --no-redirect
+ # (only for the URL passed as command line argument)
+ $ scrapy shell --no-redirect --nolog http://httpbin.org/redirect-to?url=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2F -c '(response.status, response.url)'
+ (302, 'http://httpbin.org/redirect-to?url=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2F')
+
+
.. command:: parse
parse
diff --git a/docs/topics/shell.rst b/docs/topics/shell.rst
index da91108b2..ef6aeeed3 100644
--- a/docs/topics/shell.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/shell.rst
@@ -97,8 +97,12 @@ Available Shortcuts
* ``shelp()`` - print a help with the list of available objects and shortcuts
- * ``fetch(request_or_url)`` - fetch a new response from the given request or
- URL and update all related objects accordingly.
+ * ``fetch(url[, redirect=True])`` - fetch a new response from the given
+ URL and update all related objects accordingly. You can optionaly ask for
+ HTTP 3xx redirections to not be followed by passing ``redirect=False``
+
+ * ``fetch(request)`` - fetch a new response from the given request and
+ update all related objects accordingly.
* ``view(response)`` - open the given response in your local web browser, for
inspection. This will add a `\ tag`_ to the response body in order
@@ -157,36 +161,28 @@ list of available objects and useful shortcuts (you'll notice that these lines
all start with the ``[s]`` prefix)::
[s] Available Scrapy objects:
- [s] crawler
+ [s] scrapy scrapy module (contains scrapy.Request, scrapy.Selector, etc)
+ [s] crawler
[s] item {}
[s] request
- [s] response <200 http://scrapy.org>
- [s] settings
- [s] spider
+ [s] response <200 https://scrapy.org/>
+ [s] settings
+ [s] spider
[s] Useful shortcuts:
+ [s] fetch(url[, redirect=True]) Fetch URL and update local objects (by default, redirects are followed)
+ [s] fetch(req) Fetch a scrapy.Request and update local objects
[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
>>>
+
After that, we can start playing with the objects::
>>> response.xpath('//title/text()').extract_first()
'Scrapy | A Fast and Powerful Scraping and Web Crawling Framework'
>>> fetch("http://reddit.com")
- [s] Available Scrapy objects:
- [s] crawler
- [s] item {}
- [s] request
- [s] response <200 https://www.reddit.com/>
- [s] settings
- [s] spider
- [s] Useful shortcuts:
- [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
>>> response.xpath('//title/text()').extract()
['reddit: the front page of the internet']
@@ -194,12 +190,36 @@ After that, we can start playing with the objects::
>>> request = request.replace(method="POST")
>>> fetch(request)
- [s] Available Scrapy objects:
- [s] crawler
- ...
+ >>> response.status
+ 404
+
+ >>> from pprint import pprint
+
+ >>> pprint(response.headers)
+ {'Accept-Ranges': ['bytes'],
+ 'Cache-Control': ['max-age=0, must-revalidate'],
+ 'Content-Type': ['text/html; charset=UTF-8'],
+ 'Date': ['Thu, 08 Dec 2016 16:21:19 GMT'],
+ 'Server': ['snooserv'],
+ 'Set-Cookie': ['loid=KqNLou0V9SKMX4qb4n; Domain=reddit.com; Max-Age=63071999; Path=/; expires=Sat, 08-Dec-2018 16:21:19 GMT; secure',
+ 'loidcreated=2016-12-08T16%3A21%3A19.445Z; Domain=reddit.com; Max-Age=63071999; Path=/; expires=Sat, 08-Dec-2018 16:21:19 GMT; secure',
+ 'loid=vi0ZVe4NkxNWdlH7r7; Domain=reddit.com; Max-Age=63071999; Path=/; expires=Sat, 08-Dec-2018 16:21:19 GMT; secure',
+ 'loidcreated=2016-12-08T16%3A21%3A19.459Z; Domain=reddit.com; Max-Age=63071999; Path=/; expires=Sat, 08-Dec-2018 16:21:19 GMT; secure'],
+ 'Vary': ['accept-encoding'],
+ 'Via': ['1.1 varnish'],
+ 'X-Cache': ['MISS'],
+ 'X-Cache-Hits': ['0'],
+ 'X-Content-Type-Options': ['nosniff'],
+ 'X-Frame-Options': ['SAMEORIGIN'],
+ 'X-Moose': ['majestic'],
+ 'X-Served-By': ['cache-cdg8730-CDG'],
+ 'X-Timer': ['S1481214079.394283,VS0,VE159'],
+ 'X-Ua-Compatible': ['IE=edge'],
+ 'X-Xss-Protection': ['1; mode=block']}
>>>
+
.. _topics-shell-inspect-response:
Invoking the shell from spiders to inspect responses
diff --git a/scrapy/commands/fetch.py b/scrapy/commands/fetch.py
index f09a873c1..7d4840529 100644
--- a/scrapy/commands/fetch.py
+++ b/scrapy/commands/fetch.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ from w3lib.url import is_url
from scrapy.commands import ScrapyCommand
from scrapy.http import Request
from scrapy.exceptions import UsageError
+from scrapy.utils.datatypes import SequenceExclude
from scrapy.utils.spider import spidercls_for_request, DefaultSpider
class Command(ScrapyCommand):
@@ -27,6 +28,8 @@ class Command(ScrapyCommand):
help="use this spider")
parser.add_option("--headers", dest="headers", action="store_true", \
help="print response HTTP headers instead of body")
+ parser.add_option("--no-redirect", dest="no_redirect", action="store_true", \
+ default=False, help="do not handle HTTP 3xx status codes and print response as-is")
def _print_headers(self, headers, prefix):
for key, values in headers.items():
@@ -50,7 +53,12 @@ class Command(ScrapyCommand):
raise UsageError()
cb = lambda x: self._print_response(x, opts)
request = Request(args[0], callback=cb, dont_filter=True)
- request.meta['handle_httpstatus_all'] = True
+ # by default, let the framework handle redirects,
+ # i.e. command handles all codes expect 3xx
+ if not opts.no_redirect:
+ request.meta['handle_httpstatus_list'] = SequenceExclude(range(300, 400))
+ else:
+ request.meta['handle_httpstatus_all'] = True
spidercls = DefaultSpider
spider_loader = self.crawler_process.spider_loader
diff --git a/scrapy/commands/shell.py b/scrapy/commands/shell.py
index 7be7f7256..40a58d94a 100644
--- a/scrapy/commands/shell.py
+++ b/scrapy/commands/shell.py
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ class Command(ScrapyCommand):
help="evaluate the code in the shell, print the result and exit")
parser.add_option("--spider", dest="spider",
help="use this spider")
+ parser.add_option("--no-redirect", dest="no_redirect", action="store_true", \
+ default=False, help="do not handle HTTP 3xx status codes and print response as-is")
def update_vars(self, vars):
"""You can use this function to update the Scrapy objects that will be
@@ -68,7 +70,7 @@ class Command(ScrapyCommand):
self._start_crawler_thread()
shell = Shell(crawler, update_vars=self.update_vars, code=opts.code)
- shell.start(url=url)
+ shell.start(url=url, redirect=not opts.no_redirect)
def _start_crawler_thread(self):
t = Thread(target=self.crawler_process.start,
diff --git a/scrapy/shell.py b/scrapy/shell.py
index 183ee1f70..6f94635a1 100644
--- a/scrapy/shell.py
+++ b/scrapy/shell.py
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ from scrapy.item import BaseItem
from scrapy.settings import Settings
from scrapy.spiders import Spider
from scrapy.utils.console import start_python_console
+from scrapy.utils.datatypes import SequenceExclude
from scrapy.utils.misc import load_object
from scrapy.utils.response import open_in_browser
from scrapy.utils.conf import get_config
@@ -40,11 +41,11 @@ class Shell(object):
self.code = code
self.vars = {}
- def start(self, url=None, request=None, response=None, spider=None):
+ def start(self, url=None, request=None, response=None, spider=None, redirect=True):
# disable accidental Ctrl-C key press from shutting down the engine
signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal.SIG_IGN)
if url:
- self.fetch(url, spider)
+ self.fetch(url, spider, redirect=redirect)
elif request:
self.fetch(request, spider)
elif response:
@@ -98,14 +99,16 @@ class Shell(object):
self.spider = spider
return spider
- def fetch(self, request_or_url, spider=None):
+ def fetch(self, request_or_url, spider=None, redirect=True, **kwargs):
if isinstance(request_or_url, Request):
request = request_or_url
- url = request.url
else:
url = any_to_uri(request_or_url)
- request = Request(url, dont_filter=True)
- request.meta['handle_httpstatus_all'] = True
+ request = Request(url, dont_filter=True, **kwargs)
+ if redirect:
+ request.meta['handle_httpstatus_list'] = SequenceExclude(range(300, 400))
+ else:
+ request.meta['handle_httpstatus_all'] = True
response = None
try:
response, spider = threads.blockingCallFromThread(
@@ -144,10 +147,13 @@ class Shell(object):
if self._is_relevant(v):
b.append(" %-10s %s" % (k, v))
b.append("Useful shortcuts:")
- b.append(" shelp() Shell help (print this help)")
if self.inthread:
- b.append(" fetch(req_or_url) Fetch request (or URL) and "
- "update local objects")
+ b.append(" fetch(url[, redirect=True]) "
+ "Fetch URL and update local objects "
+ "(by default, redirects are followed)")
+ b.append(" fetch(req) "
+ "Fetch a scrapy.Request and update local objects ")
+ b.append(" shelp() Shell help (print this help)")
b.append(" view(response) View response in a browser")
return "\n".join("[s] %s" % l for l in b)
diff --git a/scrapy/utils/datatypes.py b/scrapy/utils/datatypes.py
index d04b43176..e516185bd 100644
--- a/scrapy/utils/datatypes.py
+++ b/scrapy/utils/datatypes.py
@@ -304,3 +304,13 @@ class LocalCache(OrderedDict):
while len(self) >= self.limit:
self.popitem(last=False)
super(LocalCache, self).__setitem__(key, value)
+
+
+class SequenceExclude(object):
+ """Object to test if an item is NOT within some sequence."""
+
+ def __init__(self, seq):
+ self.seq = seq
+
+ def __contains__(self, item):
+ return item not in self.seq
diff --git a/scrapy/utils/testsite.py b/scrapy/utils/testsite.py
index ad0375443..e50a989b3 100644
--- a/scrapy/utils/testsite.py
+++ b/scrapy/utils/testsite.py
@@ -20,12 +20,20 @@ class SiteTest(object):
return urljoin(self.baseurl, path)
+class NoMetaRefreshRedirect(util.Redirect):
+ def render(self, request):
+ content = util.Redirect.render(self, request)
+ return content.replace(b'http-equiv=\"refresh\"',
+ b'http-no-equiv=\"do-not-refresh-me\"')
+
+
def test_site():
r = resource.Resource()
r.putChild(b"text", static.Data(b"Works", "text/plain"))
r.putChild(b"html", static.Data(b"Works
World
", "text/html"))
r.putChild(b"enc-gb18030", static.Data(b"gb18030 encoding
", "text/html; charset=gb18030"))
r.putChild(b"redirect", util.Redirect(b"/redirected"))
+ r.putChild(b"redirect-no-meta-refresh", NoMetaRefreshRedirect(b"/redirected"))
r.putChild(b"redirected", static.Data(b"Redirected here", "text/plain"))
return server.Site(r)
diff --git a/tests/test_command_fetch.py b/tests/test_command_fetch.py
index 4843a9a2f..3fa3ed930 100644
--- a/tests/test_command_fetch.py
+++ b/tests/test_command_fetch.py
@@ -14,6 +14,18 @@ class FetchTest(ProcessTest, SiteTest, unittest.TestCase):
_, out, _ = yield self.execute([self.url('/text')])
self.assertEqual(out.strip(), b'Works')
+ @defer.inlineCallbacks
+ def test_redirect_default(self):
+ _, out, _ = yield self.execute([self.url('/redirect')])
+ self.assertEqual(out.strip(), b'Redirected here')
+
+ @defer.inlineCallbacks
+ def test_redirect_disabled(self):
+ _, out, err = yield self.execute(['--no-redirect', self.url('/redirect-no-meta-refresh')])
+ err = err.strip()
+ self.assertIn(b'downloader/response_status_count/302', err, err)
+ self.assertNotIn(b'downloader/response_status_count/200', err, err)
+
@defer.inlineCallbacks
def test_headers(self):
_, out, _ = yield self.execute([self.url('/text'), '--headers'])
diff --git a/tests/test_command_shell.py b/tests/test_command_shell.py
index 7bb7439d6..3e27d6abd 100644
--- a/tests/test_command_shell.py
+++ b/tests/test_command_shell.py
@@ -49,6 +49,35 @@ class ShellTest(ProcessTest, SiteTest, unittest.TestCase):
_, out, _ = yield self.execute([self.url('/redirect'), '-c', 'response.url'])
assert out.strip().endswith(b'/redirected')
+ @defer.inlineCallbacks
+ def test_redirect_follow_302(self):
+ _, out, _ = yield self.execute([self.url('/redirect-no-meta-refresh'), '-c', 'response.status'])
+ assert out.strip().endswith(b'200')
+
+ @defer.inlineCallbacks
+ def test_redirect_not_follow_302(self):
+ _, out, _ = yield self.execute(['--no-redirect', self.url('/redirect-no-meta-refresh'), '-c', 'response.status'])
+ assert out.strip().endswith(b'302')
+
+ @defer.inlineCallbacks
+ def test_fetch_redirect_follow_302(self):
+ """Test that calling `fetch(url)` follows HTTP redirects by default."""
+ url = self.url('/redirect-no-meta-refresh')
+ code = "fetch('{0}')"
+ errcode, out, errout = yield self.execute(['-c', code.format(url)])
+ self.assertEqual(errcode, 0, out)
+ assert b'Redirecting (302)' in errout
+ assert b'Crawled (200)' in errout
+
+ @defer.inlineCallbacks
+ def test_fetch_redirect_not_follow_302(self):
+ """Test that calling `fetch(url, redirect=False)` disables automatic redirects."""
+ url = self.url('/redirect-no-meta-refresh')
+ code = "fetch('{0}', redirect=False)"
+ errcode, out, errout = yield self.execute(['-c', code.format(url)])
+ self.assertEqual(errcode, 0, out)
+ assert b'Crawled (302)' in errout
+
@defer.inlineCallbacks
def test_request_replace(self):
url = self.url('/text')
diff --git a/tests/test_utils_datatypes.py b/tests/test_utils_datatypes.py
index b31d2179c..80f797227 100644
--- a/tests/test_utils_datatypes.py
+++ b/tests/test_utils_datatypes.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
import copy
import unittest
-from scrapy.utils.datatypes import CaselessDict
+from scrapy.utils.datatypes import CaselessDict, SequenceExclude
__doctests__ = ['scrapy.utils.datatypes']
@@ -128,6 +128,67 @@ class CaselessDictTest(unittest.TestCase):
assert isinstance(h2, CaselessDict)
+class SequenceExcludeTest(unittest.TestCase):
+
+ def test_list(self):
+ seq = [1, 2, 3]
+ d = SequenceExclude(seq)
+ self.assertIn(0, d)
+ self.assertIn(4, d)
+ self.assertNotIn(2, d)
+
+ def test_range(self):
+ seq = range(10, 20)
+ d = SequenceExclude(seq)
+ self.assertIn(5, d)
+ self.assertIn(20, d)
+ self.assertNotIn(15, d)
+
+ def test_six_range(self):
+ import six.moves
+ seq = six.moves.range(10**3, 10**6)
+ d = SequenceExclude(seq)
+ self.assertIn(10**2, d)
+ self.assertIn(10**7, d)
+ self.assertNotIn(10**4, d)
+
+ def test_range_step(self):
+ seq = range(10, 20, 3)
+ d = SequenceExclude(seq)
+ are_not_in = [v for v in range(10, 20, 3) if v in d]
+ self.assertEquals([], are_not_in)
+
+ are_not_in = [v for v in range(10, 20) if v in d]
+ self.assertEquals([11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18], are_not_in)
+
+ def test_string_seq(self):
+ seq = "cde"
+ d = SequenceExclude(seq)
+ chars = "".join(v for v in "abcdefg" if v in d)
+ self.assertEquals("abfg", chars)
+
+ def test_stringset_seq(self):
+ seq = set("cde")
+ d = SequenceExclude(seq)
+ chars = "".join(v for v in "abcdefg" if v in d)
+ self.assertEquals("abfg", chars)
+
+ def test_set(self):
+ """Anything that is not in the supplied sequence will evaluate as 'in' the container."""
+ seq = set([-3, "test", 1.1])
+ d = SequenceExclude(seq)
+ self.assertIn(0, d)
+ self.assertIn("foo", d)
+ self.assertIn(3.14, d)
+ self.assertIn(set("bar"), d)
+
+ # supplied sequence is a set, so checking for list (non)inclusion fails
+ self.assertRaises(TypeError, (0, 1, 2) in d)
+ self.assertRaises(TypeError, d.__contains__, ['a', 'b', 'c'])
+
+ for v in [-3, "test", 1.1]:
+ self.assertNotIn(v, d)
+
if __name__ == "__main__":
unittest.main()