Remove deprecated Spider.make_requests_from_url method

scrapy/spiders/__init__.py

@@ -4,13 +4,11 @@
 See documentation in docs/topics/spiders.rst
 """
 import logging
-import warnings
 
 from scrapy import signals
 from scrapy.http import Request
 from scrapy.utils.trackref import object_ref
 from scrapy.utils.url import url_is_from_spider
-from scrapy.utils.deprecate import method_is_overridden
 
 
 class Spider(object_ref):
@@ -56,29 +54,14 @@ def _set_crawler(self, crawler):
         crawler.signals.connect(self.close, signals.spider_closed)
 
     def start_requests(self):
-        cls = self.__class__
         if not self.start_urls and hasattr(self, 'start_url'):
             raise AttributeError(
                 "Crawling could not start: 'start_urls' not found "
                 "or empty (but found 'start_url' attribute instead, "
                 "did you miss an 's'?)")
-        if method_is_overridden(cls, Spider, 'make_requests_from_url'):
-            warnings.warn(
-                "Spider.make_requests_from_url method is deprecated; it "
-                "won't be called in future Scrapy releases. Please "
-                "override Spider.start_requests method instead (see %s.%s)." % (
-                    cls.__module__, cls.__name__
-                ),
-            )
-            for url in self.start_urls:
-                yield self.make_requests_from_url(url)
-        else:
-            for url in self.start_urls:
-                yield Request(url, dont_filter=True)
-
-    def make_requests_from_url(self, url):
-        """ This method is deprecated. """
-        return Request(url, dont_filter=True)
+
+        for url in self.start_urls:
+            yield Request(url, dont_filter=True)
 
     def parse(self, response):
         raise NotImplementedError('{}.parse callback is not defined'.format(self.__class__.__name__))

tests/test_spider.py

@@ -583,33 +583,6 @@ def test_crawl_spider(self):
         assert issubclass(CrawlSpider, Spider)
         assert isinstance(CrawlSpider(name='foo'), Spider)
 
-    def test_make_requests_from_url_deprecated(self):
-        class MySpider4(Spider):
-            name = 'spider1'
-            start_urls = ['http://example.com']
-
-        class MySpider5(Spider):
-            name = 'spider2'
-            start_urls = ['http://example.com']
-
-            def make_requests_from_url(self, url):
-                return Request(url + "/foo", dont_filter=True)
-
-        with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as w:
-            # spider without overridden make_requests_from_url method
-            # doesn't issue a warning
-            spider1 = MySpider4()
-            self.assertEqual(len(list(spider1.start_requests())), 1)
-            self.assertEqual(len(w), 0)
-
-            # spider with overridden make_requests_from_url issues a warning,
-            # but the method still works
-            spider2 = MySpider5()
-            requests = list(spider2.start_requests())
-            self.assertEqual(len(requests), 1)
-            self.assertEqual(requests[0].url, 'http://example.com/foo')
-            self.assertEqual(len(w), 1)
-
 
 class NoParseMethodSpiderTest(unittest.TestCase):