[MRG+1] Improve document about functions as processors #3224
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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. |
Thanks @lucywang000 ! |
@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:
and many more... You can't really fully utlize the |
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.