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Access session cookie in scrapy spiders

I am trying to access the session cookie within a spider. I first login to a social network using in …

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Export csv file from scrapy (not via command line)

I successfully tried to export my items into a csv file from the command line like: scrapy crawl spiderName -o …

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InterfaceError: connection already closed (using django + celery + Scrapy)

I am getting this when using a Scrapy parsing function (that can take till 10 minutes sometimes) inside a Celery task. …

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How do I catch errors with scrapy so I can do something when I get User Timeout error?

ERROR: Error downloading <GET URL_HERE>: User timeout caused connection failure. I get this issue every now and …

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pyconfig.h missing during "pip install cryptography"

I wanna set up scrapy cluster follow this link scrapy-cluster,Everything is ok before I run this command: pip install …

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Scrapy with Privoxy and Tor: how to renew IP

I am dealing with Scrapy, Privoxy and Tor. I have all installed and properly working. But Tor connects with the …

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Should I create pipeline to save files with scrapy?

I need to save a file (.pdf) but I'm unsure how to do it. I need to save .pdfs and …

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Passing a argument to a callback function

def parse(self, response): for sel in response.xpath('//tbody/tr'): item = HeroItem() item['hclass'] = response.request.url.split("/")[8].…

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How to scrape all contents from infinite scroll website? scrapy

I'm using scrapy. The website i'm using has infinite scroll. the website has loads of posts but i only scraped 13. …

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Scrapy Shell - How to change USER_AGENT

I have a fully functioning scrapy script to extract data from a website. During setup, the target site banned me …

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