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608 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Pablo Hoffman 58e88ed246 scrapyd: do not set SCRAPY_FEED_URI/SCRAPY_LOG_FILE if items_dir/logs_dir settings are not set 2012-05-08 17:43:00 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 9c3b9f2968 fixed bug in json-rpc webservice reported in https://groups.google.com/d/topic/scrapy-users/qgVBmFybNAQ/discussion. also removed no longer supported 'run' command from extras/scrapy-ws.py 2012-05-03 12:05:40 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman abcac4fcbd updated maintainer to scrapinghub 2012-05-02 03:25:35 -03:00
stav 86dba76d1f documentation indentation 2012-04-30 13:09:34 -05:00
Pablo Hoffman c7f33c534b removed redundant lines from release notes 2012-04-20 09:09:55 -03:00
Daniel Graña 15c8c01828 add 0.14.3 release notes 2012-04-19 23:25:15 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 97f362d64e removed deprecated/undocumented class: HTMLImageLinkExtractor 2012-04-19 12:07:46 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 2fb5e62c39 doc: update overview page to point to the genspider command. refs #107 2012-04-19 02:37:22 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman d567d8efbe added note to docs/topics/firebug.rst about google directory being shut down 2012-04-19 01:34:20 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 30ddbf624e mention about some scrapy.xlib modules removed in the release notes 2012-04-17 12:31:18 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman d99ee6deb9 added some missing entries to release notes 2012-04-17 12:29:48 -03:00
Daniel Graña d8ebf16fe5 Merge pull request #114 from stav/master
Scrapy DOC changes
2012-04-11 12:08:45 -07:00
Pablo Hoffman 7cca916ed5 added release notes to official documentation, including all release notes since Scrapy 0.7 2012-04-11 15:53:23 -03:00
stav f1802289cd small doc typo change to get the fork rolling 2012-04-11 12:05:39 -05:00
Pablo Hoffman 4f28ffcb2c removed no longer needed dependency on simplejson 2012-04-10 16:01:36 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 6e8edbd72e switched default selectors backend to lxml 2012-04-10 15:52:14 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 27018fced7 changed default user agent to Scrapy/0.15 (+http://scrapy.org) and removed no longer needed BOT_VERSION setting 2012-03-23 13:45:21 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 8933e2f2be added REFERER_ENABLED setting, to control referer middleware 2012-03-22 16:35:14 -03:00
Jason Yeo da826aa13d fixed minor mistake in Request objects documentation 2012-03-21 10:25:41 +08:00
Pablo Hoffman 175c70ad44 fixed minor defect in link extractors documentation 2012-03-20 22:56:45 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 35fb01156e removed some obsolete remaining code related to sqlite support in scrapy 2012-03-16 11:55:55 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman b6ae266546 Removed (very old and possibly broken) backwards compatibility support for Twisted 2.5 2012-03-15 00:28:24 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman e521da2e2f Dropped support for Python 2.5. See: http://blog.scrapy.org/scrapy-dropping-support-for-python-25 2012-03-01 08:18:12 -02:00
Pablo Hoffman 2b16ebdc11 added minor clarification on cookiejar request meta key usage 2012-02-29 07:19:01 -02:00
lostsnow 5afe4f50c1 scrapyd: support bind to a specific ip address 2012-02-29 13:47:40 +08:00
Pablo Hoffman 81abb45000 fixed bug in new cookiejar documentation 2012-02-28 11:08:25 -02:00
Pablo Hoffman 26c8004125 added documentation for the new cookiejar Request.meta key 2012-02-27 19:58:58 -02:00
Pablo Hoffman 7fe7c3f3b1 MemoryUsage extension: close the spiders (instead of stopping the engine) when the limit is exceeded, providing a descriptive reason for the close. Also fixed default value of MEMUSAGE_ENABLED setting to match the documentation. 2012-02-23 17:05:06 -02:00
Pablo Hoffman 7b8942a648 updated StackTraceDump extension doc 2012-02-16 15:14:17 -02:00
Pablo Hoffman ea77342b55 updated versioning doc according to recent changes 2012-01-05 11:50:28 -02:00
Pablo Hoffman 0b0bce7f3c scrapyd: added cancel.json and listjobs.json api methods to documentation 2012-01-05 11:23:25 -02:00
Pablo Hoffman 8f42633a94 scrapyd: added clarification about how to disable items feeds generation 2012-01-05 11:20:50 -02:00
Pablo Hoffman dbda33efa6 scrapyd: added support for storing items by default
Items are stored the same way as logs, in jsonlines format.

Also renamed logs_to_keep setting to jobs_to_keep.
2012-01-03 23:08:54 -02:00
Pablo Hoffman 0be421fbf0 fixed reference to tutorial directory 2011-12-23 18:57:11 -02:00
Pablo Hoffman 41fd3c4f6c doc: removed duplicated callback argument from Request.replace() 2011-12-23 15:55:46 -02:00
Pablo Hoffman 0eeff76227 fixed formatting of scrapyd doc 2011-12-20 03:18:37 -02:00
Daniel Graña bcb31988f2 change tutorial to follow changes on dmoz site 2011-12-14 13:03:31 -02:00
Pablo Hoffman 992af8d38f ubuntu repos: added support for oneiric release 2011-10-25 14:26:38 -02:00
Pablo Hoffman c38c49d56a fixed PickeItemExporter bug, added unittest, and added pickle to suported feed exports formats 2011-10-25 02:36:51 -02:00
Pablo Hoffman 8bdf288428 made scrapyd doc more version agnostic 2011-10-23 05:29:54 -02:00
Pablo Hoffman ade5efdc61 added -o option to scrapy crawl, a convenient shortcut for using feed exports 2011-10-22 20:53:49 -02:00
Pablo Hoffman 431441cb52 updated documentation to remove references to old issue tracker and mercurial repos 2011-09-25 13:06:24 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman ce03ccd4ec updated documentation about DEPTH_PRIORITY and DFO/BFO crawls 2011-09-23 13:22:25 -03:00
Julien Duponchelle b7c436343a scrapy deploy support git version 2011-09-21 22:17:08 +02:00
Pablo Hoffman ab1c9cfc56 removed documentation header notifying about other documentation versions, as that's provided by readthedocs already 2011-09-14 02:39:32 -03:00
Daniel Grana 5f1b1c05f8 Do not filter requests with dont_filter attribute set in OffsiteMiddleware 2011-09-08 15:18:10 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman bff3d31469 scrapyd: updated schedule.json response format 2011-09-04 09:29:24 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman a1dbc62b45 removed CONCURRENT_SPIDERS setting (use scrapyd maxproc instead) 2011-09-02 18:27:39 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 40f7075f11 added initial documentation about suspend and resume crawls 2011-09-02 13:12:27 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 27dd68a690 added SpiderState extension 2011-09-02 13:06:59 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 6a31ab667d minor fix to doc 2011-09-01 15:08:23 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman d98b058c21 no longer recommend using labmda's in the doc, as they're not friendly with scheduler persistence 2011-09-01 15:06:49 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 76af0cdd44 updated documentation and code to use -s instead of --set option 2011-09-01 14:35:37 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 98b68ca89d scrapyd: documented support for passing setting to spiders in schedule.json 2011-08-27 01:31:12 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 5c6b0631e2 minor doc fix 2011-08-19 11:42:03 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 9d97e73a24 fixed priority handling on the new scheduler so that it's backwards compatible (ie. bigger priorities are higher). also fixed a few documentation bugs related to requests priority 2011-08-19 08:26:41 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman a3697421c0 some minor updates to documentation 2011-08-11 09:19:59 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 5da6ffb57b Automated merge with ssh://hg.scrapy.org:2222/scrapy-0.12 2011-08-11 09:11:19 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman bc2d2183e9 fixed import in doc 2011-08-11 09:11:08 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 19e6da59d8 added new downloader middleware: ChunkedTransferMiddleware 2011-08-09 03:03:25 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 984be35461 Some telnet console changes:
* renamed manager alias to crawler
* added aliases: spider, slot
* fixed est() function
2011-08-08 15:01:08 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman f7c0aeccc6 added note about engine_started signal 2011-08-07 03:57:09 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 9f60c27612 added setting to support disabling DNS cache: DNSCACHE_ENABLED 2011-08-05 20:41:59 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman cb95d7a5af added marshal to formats supported by feed exports 2011-08-03 16:16:48 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 549725215e Initial support for a persistent scheduler, to support pausing and resuming
crawls.

* requests are serialized (using marshal by default) and stored on disk, using
  one queue per priority
* request priorities must be integers now
* breadh-first and depth-first crawling orders can now be configured
  through a new DEPTH_PRIORITY setting (see doc). backwards compatilibty with
  SCHEDULER_ORDER was kept.
* requests that can't be serialized (for example, non serializable callbacks)
  are always kept in memory queues
* adapted crawl spider to work with persitent scheduler
2011-08-02 11:57:55 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman f354a49d0f added FAQ about preventing bots getting banned 2011-07-28 00:40:30 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman ce7a787970 Big downloader refactoring to support real concurrency limits per domain/ip,
instead of global limits per spider which were a bit useless.

This removes the setting CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_SPIDER and adds thre new
settings:

* CONCURRENT_REQUESTS
* CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN
* CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_IP (overrides per domain)

The AutoThrottle extension had to be disabled, but will be ported and
re-enabled soon.
2011-07-27 13:38:09 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman c59340150f Added cached DNS resolver based on old caching resolver extension from scrapy.contrib.resolver. This new one is *not* an extension, it comes builtin and always enabled. 2011-07-27 03:45:15 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 2ac08a713d downloader: renamed SpiderInfo to Slot, for consistency with engine and scraper names 2011-07-22 02:06:10 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 0e008268e1 removed SimpledbStatsCollector from scrapy code, it was moved to https://github.com/scrapinghub/scaws 2011-07-20 10:38:16 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman b6b0a54d9f removed FAQ entry 2011-07-20 01:31:36 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman e3f640c7bf added FAQ entry about scrapy deploy issue on Mac + Python 2.5 2011-07-19 19:53:32 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 84f518fc5e More core changes:
* removed execution queue (replaced by newer spider queues)
* added real support for returning iterators in Spider.start_requests()
* removed support for passing urls to 'scrapy crawl' command
2011-07-15 15:18:39 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman dbad1373f1 Automated merge with ssh://hg.scrapy.org:2222/scrapy-0.12 2011-07-13 18:44:54 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 18cb4ff1d8 added natty to list of supporte ubuntu distros 2011-07-13 18:43:52 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 39a2ea97c8 redirect mw: added REDIRECT_ENABLED setting and documented the other settings 2011-07-13 14:18:15 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 541ed3913b retry middleware: added RETRY_ENABLED setting and documented the other settings more properly, also improved messages when no longer retrying requests 2011-07-13 11:55:05 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 763f3dc628 minor update to doc 2011-07-12 19:56:39 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman bfda9ec319 added clarification about scrapy versioning including the recently adopted odd/even versioning scheme
--HG--
rename : docs/api-stability.rst => docs/versioning.rst
2011-07-12 19:53:23 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 4fde1ef94d added CloseSpider exception, to manually close spiders 2011-07-12 14:24:10 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman db5cae7c03 SitemapSpider: added support for filtering which sitemaps to follow (patch contributed by Rolando Espinoza). closes #330 2011-06-23 18:18:29 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 57c43fdce6 added SitemapSpider, with tests and doc 2011-06-15 11:54:34 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 91dc46539f added LogStats extension for periodically logging basic stats (like crawled pages and scraped items) 2011-06-14 00:50:05 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 841e9913db renamed CLOSESPIDER_ITEMPASSED setting to CLOSESPIDER_ITEMCOUNT, to follow the refactoring done in r2630 2011-06-13 16:58:51 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 474cba512c simplified MemoryDebugger extension to use stats for dumping memory debugging info 2011-06-06 03:13:28 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 5fbc32c015 call stats collector engine_stopped() after the engine is closed (to make sure all data from extensions has been collected), and added that method to documented api 2011-06-06 03:12:40 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 9d9c8877da added 'scrapy edit' command 2011-06-05 22:02:56 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 03ae481cad removed experimental crawlspider v2 2011-06-03 18:23:23 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 5bf733b6f6 Changed default representation of items to pretty-printed dicts. This improves
default logging by making log more readable in the default case, for both Scraped and Dropped lines.

Projects can still customize how items are represented by overriding the item's __str__ method, as usual.
2011-06-03 01:13:01 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 1bc2339bb8 Merged item passed and item scraped concepts, as they have often proved
confusing in the past.

This means:

* original item_scraped signal was removed
* original item_passed signal was renamed to item_scraped
* old log lines "Scraped Item..." removed
* old log lines "Passed Item..." renamed to "Scraped Item..."
2011-06-03 01:13:00 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman e6091df551 fixed doc typo 2011-05-30 09:04:31 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 1d98fc8fb5 added spider_error signal 2011-05-29 22:38:17 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 2fa0f75f2d added COOKIES_ENABLED setting to support disabling the cookies middleware 2011-05-27 00:35:34 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman d72d3f4607 stack trace dump extension: also dump engine status, and support triggering it with SIGQUIT, besides SIGUSR2 2011-05-20 03:25:00 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 951ba507f9 Removed support for default values in Scrapy items, which have proven confusing in the past 2011-05-19 21:42:46 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 503f302010 removed remaining references to scheduler middleware from doc, as it will be removed on next release 2011-05-18 19:48:48 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 3fd17432cf fixed outdated documentation 2011-05-18 14:46:20 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 9016e7e993 added role to link to scrapy source code (not yet used) 2011-05-18 14:43:34 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman cd85c12c33 Some Link extractor improvements:
* added support for ignoring common file extensions that are not followed if
  they occur in links
* fixed link extractor documentation issues
* slighly improved performance of applying filters
* added link to link extractors doc from documentation index
2011-05-18 12:32:34 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 495152bd50 disabled verbose depth stats collection by default, added DEPTH_STATS_VERBOSE setting to enable it 2011-05-18 11:04:48 -03:00