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docs: add middlewares documentation #632

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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions docs/contributing/index.rst
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- Connect signals, typically `item signals <https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/signals.html#item-signals>`__ and `spider signals <https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/signals.html#spider-signals>`__
- Raise a `NotConfigured <https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/exceptions.html#notconfigured>`__ exception in its `from_crawler <https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/extensions.html#writing-your-own-extension>`__ method, if a required `setting <https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html>`__ isn't set

- A downloader middleware's responsibility is to process requests, before they are sent to the internet, and responses, before they are processed by the Spiders. It should only:
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- Yield a request
- Return a Deferred
- Yield items
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When setting a custom `Request.meta key <https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/request-response.html#scrapy.http.Request.meta>`__, check that the attribute name isn't `already in use <https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/request-response.html#topics-request-meta>`__ by Scrapy.

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extensions.rst
util.rst
exceptions.rst
middlewares.rst
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Middlewares
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.. automodule:: kingfisher_scrapy.middlewares
:members:
:undoc-members: