Commit Graph

94 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Pablo Hoffman b1d1a36a1e add note about enclosing urls with quotes when running from command-line. closes GH-384 2013-09-18 18:01:28 -03:00
Kumara Tharmalingam bbb0603091 Fixed directory location for dmoz_spider.py file
It should be under 'tutorial/spiders' not 'dmoz/spiders'
2013-09-15 21:55:52 -07:00
Daniel Graña 0400b18efa docs: list lxml as installation prerequisite 2013-09-09 12:44:26 -03:00
Hart c00c4d7148 correction to description of example XPath retrieval in overview doc 2013-08-03 17:08:58 -07:00
Juan M Uys 4de3aa4932 Update overview.rst 2013-04-08 14:13:15 +02:00
Pablo Hoffman 51c301b3a2 added link to python binary libs, for windows installation 2013-03-13 03:18:33 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 22edc44c6c doc: remove links to diveintopython.org, which is no longer available. closes #246 2013-02-14 11:09:40 -02:00
Pablo Hoffman d6867f7984 removed sphinx warnings about duplicate reference names 'this page' 2012-09-13 15:26:45 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman f4a17ec272 removed references to Scrapy Snippets site 2012-09-03 22:19:15 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 4a5f70278f minor tidy up to installation guide windows notes 2012-08-29 15:44:24 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 098d892c03 simplified installation guide to only mention pip/easy_install mechanism, and provide hints for Windows users 2012-08-29 15:37:05 -03:00
Daniel Graña abcc8c9f63 Recommend pypi as single way to install on Windows 2012-08-06 10:21:13 -03:00
Valentin-Costel Hăloiu 00bfb37e79 Update master 2012-07-04 06:55:01 +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 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 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 0be421fbf0 fixed reference to tutorial directory 2011-12-23 18:57:11 -02:00
Daniel Graña bcb31988f2 change tutorial to follow changes on dmoz site 2011-12-14 13:03:31 -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 76af0cdd44 updated documentation and code to use -s instead of --set option 2011-09-01 14:35:37 -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 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 57c43fdce6 added SitemapSpider, with tests and doc 2011-06-15 11:54:34 -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 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 7f97259ba7 added w3lib to requirements, in installation guide 2011-05-01 11:14:57 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman bb2b67c862 updated tutorial to use 'dmoz' as the name of the spider instead of 'dmoz.org', so that it's more similar to the dirbot example project 2011-04-28 09:31:57 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman bf73002428 removed googledir example, replaced by dirbot project on github. updated docs accordingly 2011-04-28 02:28:39 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 181d1c09ae Fixed typo and code indentation in the doc. Closes #307 and #308 2011-02-09 11:19:46 -02:00
Pablo Hoffman 426b6fa100 docs/intro/install.rst: added -U flag to easy_install command 2010-11-22 13:50:19 -02:00
Pablo Hoffman ac007802d6 Simplified installation guide, including lxml as alternative dependency to libxml2. Closes #280 2010-11-17 21:32:23 -02:00
Pablo Hoffman 5a5364d0c1 Updated documentation to point out that simplejson is now required if using Python 2.5, and to recommended switching to Python 2.6 2010-11-16 03:31:04 -02:00
Pablo Hoffman 5f65c26080 Some minor improvements to feature list in Scrapy at a Glance documentation page 2010-10-16 19:02:08 -02:00
Pablo Hoffman b4fbc6c5fa Updated Scrapy Tutorial to reference feed exports, instead a custom written pipeline, and extended item pipeline documentation to include a JSON writer. 2010-10-10 20:31:05 -02:00
Pablo Hoffman f4accb6c7f Updated dmoz xpaths of Scrapy tutorial 2010-10-07 18:22:01 -02:00
Pablo Hoffman e3d67d74f7 docs/intro/overview.rst: add example of scraped data and introduce loaders 2010-09-06 10:04:00 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 00d55fbbd1 Updated 'Scrapy at a glance' document replacing item pipeline example by a simpler usage of feed exports 2010-09-05 23:38:37 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman e2ed27e4fd Added documentation for Ubuntu packages. Refs #211 2010-08-23 21:28:32 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 9aefa242d5 Applied documentation patch provided by Lucian Ursu (closes #207) 2010-08-21 01:26:35 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 1d3b9e2ca8 Scrapy shell refactoring 2010-08-20 11:26:14 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 7858244dca Scrapy shell: moved python console starting code to scrapy.utils.console and get rid of noisy console banners 2010-08-20 01:33:02 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 34554da201 Deprecated scrapy-ctl.py command in favour of simpler "scrapy" command. Closes #199. Also updated documenation accordingly and added convenient scrapy.bat script for running from Windows.
--HG--
rename : debian/scrapy-ctl.1 => debian/scrapy.1
rename : docs/topics/scrapy-ctl.rst => docs/topics/cmdline.rst
2010-08-18 19:48:32 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman e741a807d2 Added new Feed exports extension with documentation and storage tests. Closes #197.
Also deprecated File export pipeline (to be removed in Scrapy 0.11).

Still need to add tests for FeedExport main extension code.
2010-08-17 14:27:48 -03:00
Pablo Hoffman 43d47e5d9b Some improvements to Item Pipeline (closes #195):
* Made Item Pipeline Manager a subclass of scrapy.middleware.MiddlewareManager
* Added open_spider/close_spider methods with support for returning deferreds from them
* Inverted the process_item() arguments to be more friendly with deferred
  callbacks (backwards compatibility kept through arguments introspection)
* Updated documentation with new methods and process_item() arguments change
2010-08-12 10:48:37 -03:00