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Does Scrapy crawl HTML that calls :hover to display additional information?

I'm not sure if this is the correct place for this question.
Here's my question:
If I run scrapy, it can't see the email addresses in the page source. The page has email addresses that are visible only when you hover over a user with an email address .
When I run my spider, I get no emails. What am I doing wrong?
Thank You.
from scrapy.linkextractors import LinkExtractor
from scrapy.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule
import re
class MailsSpider(CrawlSpider):
name = 'mails'
allowed_domains = ['biorxiv.org']
start_urls = ['https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.28.482253v3']
rules = (
Rule(LinkExtractor(allow=r'Items/'), callback='parse_item', follow=True),
)
def parse_item(self, response):
emals = re.findall(r'[\w\.]+#[\w\.]+',response.text)
print(response.url)
print(emails)

Assuming you're allowed to scrape email contacts from a public website,
as said, scrapy does not loads js scripts, you need a full render browser like Playwright to get the address.
I've wrote down a quick and dirty example on how it could work, you can start from here if you wish (after you've installed playwright of course)
import scrapy
from scrapy.http import Request, FormRequest
from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright
from scrapy.http import HtmlResponse
class PhaseASpider(scrapy.Spider):
name = "test"
def start_requests(self):
yield Request('https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.28.482253v3', callback=self.parse_page)
def parse_page(self,response):
with sync_playwright() as p:
browser = p.firefox.launch(headless=False)
self.page = browser.new_page().
url='https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.28.482253v3'
self.page.goto(url)
self.page.wait_for_load_state("load")
html_page=self.page.content()
response_sel = HtmlResponse(url="my HTML string", body=html_page, encoding='utf-8')
mails=response_sel.xpath('//a[contains(#href, "mailto")]/#href').extract()
for mail in mails:
print(mail.split('mailto:')[1])

Find all cookies with Scrapy

I making a web crawler with Scrapy which will visit a list of URLs and return all cookies from these domains including those set by third parties.
This spider follows all links on the given URLs and writes each cookie in a separate text file:
from scrapy.linkextractors import LinkExtractor
from scrapy.contrib.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule
from scrapy.item import Item, Field
import requests
class MyItem(Item):
url= Field()
class MySpider(CrawlSpider):
name = "a"
start_urls = ['http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html']
rules = (Rule(LinkExtractor(), callback='parse_url', follow=False), )
def parse_url(self, response):
item = MyItem()
item['url'] = response.url
filename = '%s.txt'
if response.headers.getlist('Set-Cookie'):
page = response.url.split("/")[-2]
with open(filename, 'wb') as f:
for cookie in response.headers.getlist('Set-Cookie'):
f.write(cookie)
This results in 11 different text files each containing a cookie. The result is inconsistent with that produced by the website cookie-checker.com.
Is there a way to find all cookies set on a page using Scrapy?

Some cookies could be set via client-side(Javascript)
I suggest you use Selenium + PhantomJS to collect all client/server side cookies.
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.PhantomJS()
driver.get('http://www.example.com/')
cookies = driver.get_cookies()

How to submit a form in scrapy?

I tried to use scrapy to complete the login and collect my project commit count. And here is the code.
from scrapy.item import Item, Field
from scrapy.http import FormRequest
from scrapy.spider import Spider
from scrapy.utils.response import open_in_browser
class GitSpider(Spider):
name = "github"
allowed_domains = ["github.com"]
start_urls = ["https://www.github.com/login"]
def parse(self, response):
formdata = {'login': 'username',
'password': 'password' }
yield FormRequest.from_response(response,
formdata=formdata,
clickdata={'name': 'commit'},
callback=self.parse1)
def parse1(self, response):
open_in_browser(response)
After running the code
scrapy runspider github.py
It should show me the result page of the form, which should be a failed login in the same page as the username and password is fake. However it shows me the search page. The log file is located in pastebin
How should the code be fixed? Thanks in advance.

Your problem is that FormRequest.from_response() uses a different form - a "search form". But, you wanted it to use a "log in form" instead. Provide a formnumber argument:
yield FormRequest.from_response(response,
formnumber=1,
formdata=formdata,
clickdata={'name': 'commit'},
callback=self.parse1)
Here is what I see opened in the browser after applying the change (used "fake" user):

Solution using webdriver.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains
import time
from scrapy.contrib.spiders import CrawlSpider
class GitSpider(CrawlSpider):
name = "gitscrape"
allowed_domains = ["github.com"]
start_urls = ["https://www.github.com/login"]
def __init__(self):
self.driver = webdriver.Firefox()
def parse(self, response):
self.driver.get(response.url)
login_form = self.driver.find_element_by_name('login')
password_form = self.driver.find_element_by_name('password')
commit = self.driver.find_element_by_name('commit')
login_form.send_keys("yourlogin")
password_form.send_keys("yourpassword")
actions = ActionChains(self.driver)
actions.click(commit)
actions.perform()
# by this point you are logged to github and have access
#to all data in the main menù
time.sleep(3)
self.driver.close()

Using the "formname" argument also works:
yield FormRequest.from_response(response,
formname='Login',
formdata=formdata,
clickdata={'name': 'commit'},
callback=self.parse1)

Scrapy with Selenium crawling but not scraping

I have read all the threads on using scrapy for AJAX pages and installed selenium webdrive to simplify the task, my spider can partially crawl but can't get any data into my Items.
My objectives are:
Crawl from this page to this page
Scrape each item(post)'s:
author_name (xpath:/html/body/div[8]/div/div[1]/div[3]/div[3]/ul/li[2]/div[2]/span[2]/ul/li[3]/a/text())
author_page_url (xpath:/html/body/div[8]/div/div[1]/div[3]/div[3]/ul/li[2]/div[2]/span[2]/ul/li[3]/a/#href)
post_title (xpath://a[#class="title_txt"])
post_page_url (xpath://a[#class="title_txt"]/#href)
post_text (xpath on a separate post page: //div[#id="a_NMContent/text()")
This is my monkey code (since I am only making my first steps in Python as an aspiring natural language processing student, who majored in linguistics in the past):
import scrapy
import time
from selenium import webdriver
from scrapy.contrib.linkextractors.lxmlhtml import LxmlLinkExtractor
from scrapy.contrib.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule
from scrapy.selector import XPathSelector
class ItalkiSpider(CrawlSpider):
name = "italki"
allowed_domains = ['italki.com']
start_urls = ['http://www.italki.com/entries/korean']
# not sure if the rule is set correctly
rules = (Rule(LxmlLinkExtractor(allow="\entry"), callback = "parse_post", follow = True),)
def __init__(self):
self.driver = webdriver.Firefox()
def parse(self, response):
# adding necessary search parameters to the URL
self.driver.get(response.url+"#language=korean&author-language=russian&marks-min=-5&sort=1&page=1")
# pressing the "Show More" button at the bottom of the search results page to show the next 15 posts, when all results are loaded to the page, the button disappears
more_btn = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//a[#id="a_show_more"]')
while more_btn:
more_btn.click()
# sometimes waiting for 5 sec made spider close prematurely so keeping it long in case the server is slow
time.sleep(10)
# here is where the problem begins, I am making a list of links to all the posts on the big page, but I am afraid links will contain only the first link, because selenium doesn't do the multiple selection as one would expect from this xpath...how can I grab all the links and put them in the links list (and should I?)
links=self.driver.find_elements_by_xpath('/html/body/div[8]/div/div[1]/div[3]/div[3]/ul/li/div[2]/a')
for link in links:
link.click()
time.sleep(3)
# this is the function for parsing individual posts, called back by the *parse* method as specified in the rule of the spider; if it is correct, it should have saved at least one post into an item... I don't really understand how and where this callback function gets the response from the new page (the page of the post in this case)...is it automatically loaded to drive and then passed on to the callback function as soon as selenium has clicked on the link (link.click())? or is it all total nonsense...
def parse_post(self, response):
hxs = Selector(response)
item = ItalkiItem()
item["post_item"] = hxs.xpath('//div [#id="a_NMContent"]/text()').extract()
return item

Let's think about it a bit differently:
open the page in the browser and click "Show More" until you get to the desired page
initialize a scrapy TextResponse with the current page source (with all necessary posts loaded)
for every post initialize an Item, yield a Request to the post page and pass an item instance from a request to a response in the meta dictionary
Notes and changes I'm introducing:
use a normal Spider class
use Selenium Waits to wait for the "Show More" button to be visible
closing the driver instance in spider_closed signal dispatcher
The code:
import scrapy
from scrapy import signals
from scrapy.http import TextResponse
from scrapy.xlib.pydispatch import dispatcher
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.wait import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
class ItalkiItem(scrapy.Item):
title = scrapy.Field()
url = scrapy.Field()
text = scrapy.Field()
class ItalkiSpider(scrapy.Spider):
name = "italki"
allowed_domains = ['italki.com']
start_urls = ['http://www.italki.com/entries/korean']
def __init__(self):
self.driver = webdriver.Firefox()
dispatcher.connect(self.spider_closed, signals.spider_closed)
def spider_closed(self, spider):
self.driver.close()
def parse(self, response):
# selenium part of the job
self.driver.get('http://www.italki.com/entries/korean')
while True:
more_btn = WebDriverWait(self.driver, 10).until(
EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.ID, "a_show_more"))
)
more_btn.click()
# stop when we reach the desired page
if self.driver.current_url.endswith('page=52'):
break
# now scrapy should do the job
response = TextResponse(url=response.url, body=self.driver.page_source, encoding='utf-8')
for post in response.xpath('//ul[#id="content"]/li'):
item = ItalkiItem()
item['title'] = post.xpath('.//a[#class="title_txt"]/text()').extract()[0]
item['url'] = post.xpath('.//a[#class="title_txt"]/#href').extract()[0]
yield scrapy.Request(item['url'], meta={'item': item}, callback=self.parse_post)
def parse_post(self, response):
item = response.meta['item']
item["text"] = response.xpath('//div[#id="a_NMContent"]/text()').extract()
return item
This is something you should use as a base code and improve to fill out all other fields, like author or author_url. Hope that helps.

scrapy crawl spider ajax pagination

I was trying to scrap link which has ajax call for pagination.
I am trying to crawl http://www.demo.com link. and in .py file I provided this code for restrict XPATH and coding is:
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import scrapy
from scrapy.contrib.linkextractors import LinkExtractor
from scrapy.contrib.spiders import sumSpider, Rule
from scrapy.selector import HtmlXPathSelector
from sum.items import sumItem
class Sumspider1(sumSpider):
name = 'sumDetailsUrls'
allowed_domains = ['sum.com']
start_urls = ['http://www.demo.com']
rules = (
Rule(LinkExtractor(restrict_xpaths='.//ul[#id="pager"]/li[8]/a'), callback='parse_start_url', follow=True),
)
#use parse_start_url if your spider wants to crawl from first page , so overriding
def parse_start_url(self, response):
print '********************************************1**********************************************'
#//div[#class="showMoreCars hide"]/a
#.//ul[#id="pager"]/li[8]/a/#href
self.log('Inside - parse_item %s' % response.url)
hxs = HtmlXPathSelector(response)
item = sumItem()
item['page'] = response.url
title = hxs.xpath('.//h1[#class="page-heading"]/text()').extract()
print '********************************************title**********************************************',title
urls = hxs.xpath('.//a[#id="linkToDetails"]/#href').extract()
print '**********************************************2***url*****************************************',urls
finalurls = []
for url in urls:
print '---------url-------',url
finalurls.append(url)
item['urls'] = finalurls
return item
My items.py file contains
from scrapy.item import Item, Field
class sumItem(Item):
# define the fields for your item here like:
# name = scrapy.Field()
page = Field()
urls = Field()
Still I'm not getting exact output not able to fetch all pages when I am crawling it.

I hope the below code will help.
somespider.py
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import scrapy
import re
from scrapy.contrib.linkextractors.sgml import SgmlLinkExtractor
from scrapy.selector import Selector
from scrapy.spider import BaseSpider
from demo.items import DemoItem
from selenium import webdriver
def removeUnicodes(strData):
if(strData):
strData = strData.encode('utf-8').strip()
strData = re.sub(r'[\n\r\t]',r' ',strData.strip())
return strData
class demoSpider(scrapy.Spider):
name = "domainurls"
allowed_domains = ["domain.com"]
start_urls = ['http://www.domain.com/used/cars-in-trichy/']
def __init__(self):
self.driver = webdriver.Remote("http://127.0.0.1:4444/wd/hub", webdriver.DesiredCapabilities.HTMLUNITWITHJS)
def parse(self, response):
self.driver.get(response.url)
self.driver.implicitly_wait(5)
hxs = Selector(response)
item = DemoItem()
finalurls = []
while True:
next = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//div[#class="showMoreCars hide"]/a')
try:
next.click()
# get the data and write it to scrapy items
item['pageurl'] = response.url
item['title'] = removeUnicodes(hxs.xpath('.//h1[#class="page-heading"]/text()').extract()[0])
urls = self.driver.find_elements_by_xpath('.//a[#id="linkToDetails"]')
for url in urls:
url = url.get_attribute("href")
finalurls.append(removeUnicodes(url))
item['urls'] = finalurls
except:
break
self.driver.close()
return item
items.py
from scrapy.item import Item, Field
class DemoItem(Item):
page = Field()
urls = Field()
pageurl = Field()
title = Field()
Note:
You need to have selenium rc server running because HTMLUNITWITHJS works with selenium rc only using Python.
Run your selenium rc server issuing the command :
java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.44.0.jar
Run your spider using command:
spider crawl domainurls -o someoutput.json

You can check with your browser how the requests are made.
Behind the scene, right after you click on that button "show more cars" your browser will request a JSON data to feed your next page. You can take advantage of this fact and deal directly with the JSON data without the necessity to work with a JavaScript engine as Selenium or PhantomJS.
In your case, as the first step you should simulate an user scrolling down the page given by your start_url parameter and profile at the same time your network requests to discover the endpoint used by the browser to request that JSON. To discover this endpoint in general there is a XHR(XMLHttpRequest) section on the browser's profile tool as here in Safari where you can navigate thought all resources/endpoints used to request the data.
Once you discover this endpoint it's a straightforward task: you give your Spider as start_url the endpoint that you just discovered and according you process and navigate through the JSON's you can discover if it a next page to request.
P.S.: I saw for you that the endpoint url is http://www.carwale.com/webapi/classified/stockfilters/?city=194&kms=0-&year=0-&budget=0-&pn=2
In this case my browser requested the second page, as you can see in the parameter pn. It's is important you set the some header parameters before you send the request. I noticed in your case the headers are:
Accept text/plain, /; q=0.01
Referer http://www.carwale.com/used/cars-in-trichy/
X-Requested-With XMLHttpRequest
sourceid 1
User-Agent Mozilla/5.0...