.. _topics-signals: ======= Signals ======= Scrapy uses signals extensively to notify when certain actions occur. You can catch some of those signals in your Scrapy project or extension to perform additional tasks or extend Scrapy to add functionality not provided out of the box. Even though signals provide several arguments, the handlers which catch them don't have to receive all of them. For more information about working when see the documentation of `pydispatcher`_ (library used to implement signals). .. _pydispatcher: http://pydispatcher.sourceforge.net/ .. _topics-signals-ref: Built-in signals reference ========================== .. module:: scrapy.core.signals :synopsis: Signals definitions Here's a list of signals used in Scrapy and their meaning, in alphabetical order. domain_closed ------------- .. signal:: domain_closed .. function:: domain_closed(domain, spider, reason) Sent after a spider/domain has been closed. This can be used to release per-spider resources reserved on :signal:`domain_opened`. :param domain: a string which contains the domain of the spider which has been closed :type domain: str :param spider: the spider which has been closed :type spider: :class:`~scrapy.spider.BaseSpider` object :param reason: a string which describes the reason why the domain was closed. If it was closed because the domain has completed scraping, it the reason is ``'finished'``. Otherwise, if the domain was manually closed by calling the ``close_domain`` engine method, then the reason is the one passed in the ``reason`` argument of that method (which defaults to ``'cancelled'``). If the engine was shutdown (for example, by hitting Ctrl-C to stop it) the reason will be ``'shutdown'``. :type reason: str domain_opened ------------- .. signal:: domain_opened .. function:: domain_opened(domain, spider) Sent after a spider/domain has been opened for crawling. This is typically used to reserve per-spider resources, but can be used for any task that needs to be performed when a spider/domain is opened. :param domain: a string with the domain of the spider which has been opened :type domain: str :param spider: the spider which has been opened :type spider: :class:`~scrapy.spider.BaseSpider` object domain_idle ----------- .. signal:: domain_idle .. function:: domain_idle(domain, spider) Sent when a domain has gone idle, which means the spider has no further: * requests waiting to be downloaded * requests scheduled * items being processed in the item pipeline If the idle state persists after all handlers of this signal have finished, the engine starts closing the domain. After the domain has finished closing, the :signal:`domain_closed` signal is sent. You can, for example, schedule some requests in your :signal:`domain_idle` handler to prevent the domain from being closed. :param domain: is a string with the domain of the spider which has gone idle :type domain: str :param spider: the spider which has gone idle :type spider: :class:`~scrapy.spider.BaseSpider` object engine_started -------------- .. signal:: engine_started .. function:: engine_started() Sent when the Scrapy engine is started (for example, when a crawling process has started). engine_stopped -------------- .. signal:: engine_stopped .. function:: engine_stopped() Sent when the Scrapy engine is stopped (for example, when a crawling process has finished). item_scraped ------------ .. signal:: item_scraped .. function:: item_scraped(item, spider, response) Sent when the engine receives a new scraped item from the spider, and right before the item is sent to the :ref:`topics-item-pipeline`. :param item: is the item scraped :type item: :class:`~scrapy.item.Item` object :param spider: the spider which scraped the item :type spider: :class:`~scrapy.spider.BaseSpider` object :param response: the response from which the item was scraped :type response: :class:`~scrapy.http.Response` object item_passed ----------- .. signal:: item_passed .. function:: item_passed(item, spider, output) Sent after an item has passed all the :ref:`topics-item-pipeline` stages without being dropped. :param item: the item which passed the pipeline :type item: :class:`~scrapy.item.Item` object :param spider: the spider which scraped the item :type spider: :class:`~scrapy.spider.BaseSpider` object :param output: the output of the item pipeline. This is typically the same :class:`~scrapy.item.Item` object received in the ``item`` parameter, unless some pipeline stage created a new item. item_dropped ------------ .. signal:: item_dropped .. function:: item_dropped(item, spider, exception) Sent after an item has been dropped from the :ref:`topics-item-pipeline` when some stage raised a :exc:`~scrapy.core.exceptions.DropItem` exception. :param item: the item dropped from the :ref:`topics-item-pipeline` :type item: :class:`~scrapy.item.Item` object :param spider: the spider which scraped the item :type spider: :class:`~scrapy.spider.BaseSpider` object :param exception: the exception (which must be a :exc:`~scrapy.core.exceptions.DropItem` subclass) which caused the item to be dropped :type exception: :exc:`~scrapy.core.exceptions.DropItem` exception request_received ---------------- .. signal:: request_received .. function:: request_received(request, spider, response) Sent when the engine receives a :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` from a spider. :param request: the request received :type request: :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` object :param spider: the spider which generated the request :type spider: :class:`~scrapy.spider.BaseSpider` object :param response: the :class:`~scrapy.http.Response` fed to the spider which generated the request later :type response: :class:`~scrapy.http.Response` object request_uploaded ---------------- .. signal:: request_uploaded .. function:: request_uploaded(request, spider) Sent right after the download has sent a :class:`~scrapy.http.Request`. :param request: the request uploaded/sent :type request: :class:`~scrapy.http.Request` object :param spider: the spider which generated the request :type spider: :class:`~scrapy.spider.BaseSpider` object response_received ----------------- .. signal:: response_received .. function:: response_received(response, spider) :param response: the response received :type response: :class:`~scrapy.http.Response` object :param spider: the spider for which the response is intended :type spider: :class:`~scrapy.spider.BaseSpider` object Sent when the engine receives a new :class:`~scrapy.http.Response` from the downloader. response_downloaded ------------------- .. signal:: response_downloaded .. function:: response_downloaded(response, spider) Sent by the downloader right after a ``HTTPResponse`` is downloaded. :param response: the response downloaded :type response: :class:`~scrapy.http.Response` object :param spider: the spider for which the response is intended :type spider: :class:`~scrapy.spider.BaseSpider` object