Question

I don’t have a specific code issue I’m just not sure how to approach the following problem logistically with the Scrapy framework:

The structure of the data I want to scrape is typically a table row for each item. Straightforward enough, right?

Ultimately I want to scrape the Title, Due Date, and Details for each row. Title and Due Date are immediately available on the page…

BUT the Details themselves aren’t in the table — but rather, a link to the page containing the details (if that doesn’t make sense here’s a table):

|-------------------------------------------------|
|             Title              |    Due Date    |
|-------------------------------------------------|
| Job Title (Clickable Link)     |    1/1/2012    |
| Other Job (Link)               |    3/2/2012    |
|--------------------------------|----------------|

I’m afraid I still don’t know how to logistically pass the item around with callbacks and requests, even after reading through the CrawlSpider section of the Scrapy documentation.

Answer 1

Please, first read the docs to understand what i say.

The answer:

To scrape additional fields which are on other pages, in a parse method extract URL of the page with additional info, create and return from that parse method a Request object with that URL and pass already extracted data via its meta parameter.

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