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[MRG+1] Improve document about functions as processors #3224

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I came across this earlier today, and after quite some (result-less) debugging, google led me to #2735 . Hopefully this improvement can help others avoid this pitfall.

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@kmike kmike changed the title Improve document about functions as processors [MRG+1] Improve document about functions as processors Apr 25, 2018
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kmike commented Apr 25, 2018

Looks good, thanks @lucywang000!

I think in a long term we should support plain functions somehow. There was also a discussion about moving item loaders to a separate Python package.

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lopuhin commented Apr 26, 2018

Thanks @lucywang000 !

@lucywang000 lucywang000 deleted the better-processors-doc branch April 26, 2018 09:40
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Thanks for the review @kmike @lopuhin !

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IAlwaysBeCoding commented May 10, 2018

@kmike I think we should seriously have a third-party library that would have several processors that are highly needed. I've came up with several that I use on my own Scrapy projects.

Some processors that I have coded myself are:

  • Processor that will output a unique value for true and/or false if an element is found using an xpath/css.

  • Processor that will choose an n value from the extracted list, it's basically like a TakeFirst() but you can decide what n's index you want.

  • A TakeLast() processor as well.

  • Processor that will replace values

  • Processor that will split the output into values from a given delimeter.

and many more...

You can't really fully utlize the ItemLoader if you don't have a library of Processors, the default Processors that come with Scrapy left me no choice than to cook my own.

@kmike kmike added this to the v1.6 milestone Jul 4, 2018
@kmike kmike modified the milestones: v1.6, v1.5.1 Jul 11, 2018
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