I want to crawl a local xml file that I have located in my Downloads folder with scrapy, use xpath to extract the relevant information.
Using the scrapy intro as a guide
2016-01-24 12:38:53 [scrapy] DEBUG: Retrying <GET file://home/sayth/Downloads/20160123RAND0.xml> (failed 2 times): [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/sayth/Downloads/20160123RAND0.xml'
2016-01-24 12:38:53 [scrapy] DEBUG: Gave up retrying <GET file://home/sayth/Downloads/20160123RAND0.xml> (failed 3 times): [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/sayth/Downloads/20160123RAND0.xml'
2016-01-24 12:38:53 [scrapy] ERROR: Error downloading <GET file://home/sayth/Downloads/20160123RAND0.xml>
I have tried several version of the below however i am not able to get the start url to accept my file.
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import scrapy
class MyxmlSpider(scrapy.Spider):
name = "myxml"
allowed_domains = ["file://home/sayth/Downloads"]
start_urls = (
'http://www.file://home/sayth/Downloads/20160123RAND0.xml',
)
def parse(self, response):
for file in response.xpath('//meeting'):
full_url = response.urljoin(href.extract())
yield scrapy.Request(full_url, callback=self.parse_question)
def parse_xml(self, response):
yield {
'name': response.xpath('//meeting/race').extract()
}
Just to confirm I do have the file in that location
sayth@sayth-HP-EliteBook-2560p : ~/Downloads
[0] % ls -a
. Building a Responsive Website with Bootstrap [Video].zip
.. codemirror.zip
1.1 Situation Of Long Term Gain.xls Complete-Python-Bootcamp-master.zip
2008 Racedata.xls Cox Plate 2005.xls
20160123RAND0.xml
