I'm trying to update a database full of links to external websites, for some reason, it's skipping the callback when the request headers/website/w/e is moved/301 flag
def start_requests(self):
#... database stuff
for x in xrange(0, numrows):
row = cur.fetchone()
item = exampleItem()
item['real_id'] = row[0]
item['product_id'] = row[1]
url = "http://www.example.com/a/-" + item['real_id'] + ".htm"
log.msg("item %d request URL is %s" % (item['product_id'], url), log.INFO) # shows right
request = scrapy.Request(url, callback=self.parse_url)
request.meta['item'] = item
yield request
def parse_url(self, response):
item = response.meta['item']
item['real_url'] = response.url
log.msg("item %d new URL is %s" % (item['product_id'], item['real_url']), log.INFO) #doesnt even show the items that have redirected.
Scrapy version is 0.24, what can I do?
Interesting fact: It only happens with some of the broken links, even if they are from the same website with the exact same urls, etc.