Scrapy. How to change spider settings after start crawling?
python, scrapy, web-scraping
Solution
If you want that different spiders to have different pipelines you can set for a spider a pipelines list attribute which defines the pipelines for that spider. Than in pipelines check for existence:
class MyPipeline(object):
def process_item(self, item, spider):
if self.__class__.__name__ not in getattr(spider, 'pipelines',[]):
return item
...
return item
class MySpider(CrawlSpider):
pipelines = set([
'MyPipeline',
'MyPipeline3',
])
If you want that different items to be proceesed by different pipelines you can do this:
class MyPipeline2(object):
def process_item(self, item, spider):
if isinstance(item, MyItem):
...
return item
return item
Problem
I can't change spider settings in parse method. But it is definitely must be a way. For example: ``` class SomeSpider(BaseSpider): name = 'mySpider' allowed_domains = ['example.com'] start_urls = ['http://example.com'] settings.overrides['ITEM_PIPELINES'] = ['myproject.pipelines.FirstPipeline'] print settings['ITEM_PIPELINES'][0] #printed 'myproject.pipelines.FirstPipeline' def parse(self, response): #...some code settings.overrides['ITEM_PIPELINES'] = ['myproject.pipelines.SecondPipeline'] print settings['ITEM_PIPELINES'][0] # printed 'myproject.pipelines.SecondPipeline' item = Myitem() item['mame'] = 'Name for SecondPipeline' ``` But! Item will be processed by FirstPipeline. New ITEM_PIPELINES param don't work. How can I change settings after start crawling? Thanks in advance!