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add "flags" kwarg to Scrapy Request #2047

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pawelmhm opened this issue Jun 10, 2016 · 1 comment
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add "flags" kwarg to Scrapy Request #2047

pawelmhm opened this issue Jun 10, 2016 · 1 comment

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@pawelmhm
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Scrapy response.flags are really useful and underappreciated feature. It would be useful to add a way to pass flags argument to Request at initialization, e.g.

def some_callback(self, response):
      yield Request('http://example.com', flags={"issued from": "some_callback", "going to": "somewhere")

and then in log output you will have:

[scrapy.core.engine] Crawled (200) <GET http://example.com>  ['issued_from": "some_callback', "going to": "somewhere"]

This is useful because it allows you to have some heplful debugging metadata directly in logs. If you want to debug some spider problem you will have some metadata directly in logs and you dont have to start debugger in some callback and investigate response meta or some other stuff.

@pawelmhm pawelmhm changed the title add extra flags kwarg to Request class add "flags" kwarg to Scrapy Request Jun 10, 2016
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kmike commented Feb 22, 2017

Fixed by #2082, though flags is a list, like in responses.

@kmike kmike closed this as completed Feb 22, 2017
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