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Scrapy 0.12 Parsing with python

Based on Scrapy Tutorial (dead link: doc.scrapy.org/intro/tutorial.html)

1. Install scrapy and dependencies

sudo apt-get install python-lxml
sudo easy_install -U Scrapy

2. Create project

scrapy startproject dmoz

3. Create item models

from scrapy.item import Item, Field

class DmozItem(Item):
    title = Field()
    link = Field()
    desc = Field()

4. Create spiders (in projname/spiders/)

from scrapy.spider import BaseSpider
from scrapy.selector import HtmlXPathSelector
from dmoz.items import DmozItem

class DmozSpider(BaseSpider):
    name = "dmoz.org"
    allowed_domains = ["dmoz.org"]
    start_urls = [
    "http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Python/Books/",
    "http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Python/Resources/"
    ]

    def parse(self, response):
        hxs …

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