Question

as we see:

def parse(self, response):
    hxs = HtmlXPathSelector(response)
    sites = hxs.select('//ul/li')
    items = []

    for site in sites:
        item = Website()
        item['name'] = site.select('a/text()').extract()
        item['url'] = site.select('//a[contains(@href, "http")]/@href').extract()
        item['description'] = site.select('text()').extract()
        items.append(item)

    return items

scrapy just get a page response,and find urls in the page response. I think it is just a surface crawl ！！

But I want more urls with the definded depth .

what can I do to implement it ??

thank you!!

Answer 1

I did not understand your question, but I noticed several problems in your code, some of them could be related to your question (see the comments in the code):

sites = hxs.select('//ul/li')
items = []

for site in sites:
    item = Website()
    # this extracts a list, so i guess .extract()[0] is expected
    item['name'] = site.select('a/text()').extract() 
    # '//a[...]' maybe you expect that this gets the links within the `site`, but it actually get the links from the entire page; you should use './/a[...]'.
    # And, again, this returns a list, not a single url.
    item['url'] = site.select('//a[contains(@href, "http")]/@href').extract()