Scrapy-Redis

Redis-based components for Scrapy.

• Usage:

• Documentation: .

• Release:

• Contribution:

• LICENSE: MIT license

Features

• Distributed crawling/scraping

  > You can start multiple spider instances that share a single redis > queue. Best suitable for broad multi-domain crawls.

• Distributed post-processing

  > Scraped items gets pushed into a redis queued meaning that you can > start as many as needed post-processing processes sharing the > items queue.

• Scrapy plug-and-play components

  > Scheduler + Duplication Filter, Item Pipeline, Base Spiders.

• In this forked version: added json supported data in Redis

  > data contains url, `meta and other > optional parameters. class="title-ref">meta is a nested > json which contains sub-data. this function extract this data and > send another FormRequest with class="title-ref">url, class="title-ref">meta and addition > formdata`. > > For example: > > json > { "url": "https://exaple.com", "meta": {"job-id":"123xsd", "start-date":"dd/mm/yy"}, "url_cookie_key":"fertxsas" } > > > this data can be accessed in scrapy > spider through response. like: class="title-ref">request.url, class="title-ref">request.meta, class="title-ref">request.cookies

Requirements

• Python 3.7+
• Redis >= 5.0
• Scrapy >= 2.0
• redis-py >= 4.0

Installation

From pip

pip install scrapy-redis

From GitHub

git clone https://github.com/darkrho/scrapy-redis.git
cd scrapy-redis
python setup.py install

pip uninstall scrapy-redis

Alternative Choice

Frontera is a web crawling framework consisting of crawl frontier, and distribution/scaling primitives, allowing to build a large scale online web crawler.

History

0.9.1 (2024-07-06)

• Fixed docs build.

0.9.0 (2024-07-06)

• Fixed Scheduler not compatible with BaseDupeFilter (#294)
• Added precommit hooks.
• Switched to Python 3.12 as default build version.

0.8.0 (2024-07-03)

• Fixed request fingerprint method.
• Fixed support for Scrapy 2.6+.
• Fixed tox tests and github workflow.
• Deprecated REDIS_START_URLS_BATCH_SIZE.

0.7.3 (2022-07-21)

• Move docs to GitHub Wiki
• Update tox and support dynamic tests
• Update support for json data
• Refactor max idle time
• Add support for python3.7~python3.10
• Deprecate python2.x support

0.7.2 (2021-12-27)

• Fix RedisStatsCollector._get_key()
• Fix redis-py dependency version
• Added maximum idle waiting time MAX_IDLE_TIME_BEFORE_CLOSE

0.7.1 (2021-03-27)

• Fixes datetime parse error for redis-py 3.x.
• Add support for stats extensions.

0.7.1-rc1 (2021-03-27)

• Fixes datetime parse error for redis-py 3.x.

0.7.1-b1 (2021-03-22)

• Add support for stats extensions.

0.7.0-dev (unreleased)

• Unreleased.

0.6.8 (2017-02-14)

• Fixed automated release due to not matching registered email.

0.6.7 (2016-12-27)

• Fixes bad formatting in logging message.

0.6.6 (2016-12-20)

• Fixes wrong message on dupefilter duplicates.

0.6.5 (2016-12-19)

• Fixed typo in default settings.

0.6.4 (2016-12-18)

• Fixed data decoding in Python 3.x.
• Added REDIS_ENCODING setting (default utf-8).
• Default to CONCURRENT_REQUESTS value for REDIS_START_URLS_BATCH_SIZE.
• Renamed queue classes to a proper naming conventiong (backwards compatible).

0.6.3 (2016-07-03)

• Added REDIS_START_URLS_KEY setting.
• Fixed spider method from_crawler signature.

0.6.2 (2016-06-26)

• Support redis_cls parameter in REDIS_PARAMS setting.
• Python 3.x compatibility fixed.
• Added SCHEDULER_SERIALIZER setting.

0.6.1 (2016-06-25)

• Backwards incompatible change: Require explicit DUPEFILTER_CLASS setting.
• Added SCHEDULER_FLUSH_ON_START setting.
• Added REDIS_START_URLS_AS_SET setting.
• Added REDIS_ITEMS_KEY setting.
• Added REDIS_ITEMS_SERIALIZER setting.
• Added REDIS_PARAMS setting.
• Added REDIS_START_URLS_BATCH_SIZE spider attribute to read start urls in batches.
• Added RedisCrawlSpider.

0.6.0 (2015-07-05)

• Updated code to be compatible with Scrapy 1.0.
• Added -a domain=... option for example spiders.

0.5.0 (2013-09-02)

• Added REDIS_URL setting to support Redis connection string.
• Added SCHEDULER_IDLE_BEFORE_CLOSE setting to prevent the spider closing too quickly when the queue is empty. Default value is zero keeping the previous behavior.
• Schedule preemptively requests on item scraped.
• This version is the latest release compatible with Scrapy 0.24.x.

0.4.0 (2013-04-19)

• Added RedisSpider and RedisMixin classes as building blocks for spiders to be fed through a redis queue.
• Added redis queue stats.
• Let the encoder handle the item as it comes instead converting it to a dict.

0.3.0 (2013-02-18)

• Added support for different queue classes.
• Changed requests serialization from marshal to cPickle.

0.2.0 (2013-02-17)

• Improved backward compatibility.
• Added example project.

0.1.0 (2011-09-01)

• First release on PyPI.