3 scrapy spiders implemented with ItemLoader

There are 3 spiders implemented with ItemLoader and without it. You can consider usage of ItemLoader for your spiders after reading the readme file until the end.

Table of Contents

Introduction

If you are a newbie in scrapy but have already written several spiders and gonna write more spiders, you should consider usage of ItemLoader if you don't use it yet. I will not describe features of ItemLoader and processors, check out official docs for this. But I will show migration from real world spiders without ItemLoader to spiders with ItemLoaders.

Migration steps

1. Replace bare item field assignments with ItemLoader
2. Usage of context selectors which simplify code
3. Required step: add output processors
4. Default output processor
5. Optional step: extending ItemLoader

Installation

$ pip install scrapy
$ git clone git@github.com:taroved/3spiders-with-itemloader.git
# check contracts for spiders
$ cd 3spiders-with-itemloader
$ scrapy check

Scraping

$ scrapy crawl apple

Output scrapped data to the file and write log file:

$ scrapy crawl apple -o apple.json --logfile=apple.log

More spiders

The second spider scrape locations from wetseal.com:

$ scrapy crawl wetseal -o wetseal.json

The third spider scrape products from hhgregg.com:

$ scrapy crawl hhgregg -o hhgregg.json

Summary

I haven't said a lot, but you can take a look at the full diff between versions without and with ItemLoader for the spiders and make the right decision.

License

WTFPL