scrapy run spider from script

It is simple and straightforward 🙂 Just check the official documentation. I would make there a little change so you could control the spider to run only when you do python myscript.py and not every time you just import from it. Just add an if __name__ == “__main__”: Now save the file as myscript.py and run ‘python myscript.py`. Enjoy!

TypeError: argument of type ‘NoneType’ is not iterable

If a function does not return anything, e.g.: it has an implicit return value of None. Thus, as your pick* methods do not return anything, e.g.: the lines that call them, e.g.: set word to None, so wordInput in getInput is None. This means that: is the equivalent of: and None is an instance of NoneType which does not provide iterator/iteration functionality, so you get that type error. The fix … Read more

Python 101: Can’t open file: No such file or directory

here’s a quick background: I am on day 1 of learning Python. No prior coding experience. Running Windows 8. Python 2.7 installed (location: C:\Python27). I have added the path “C:\Python27\;” to the environment variables and ‘.py:’ to PATHEXT. I am able to launch Python. To learn, I’m starting with the Google Developers course on Python. … Read more