scraping the file with html saved in local system
python, scrapy
Solution
You can crawl a local file using an url of the following form:
file:///path/to/file.html
Problem
For example i had a site `"www.example.com"` Actually i want to scrape the html of this site by saving on to local system. so for testing i saved that page on my desktop as `example.html` Now i had written the spider code for this as below ``` class ExampleSpider(BaseSpider): name = "example" start_urls = ["example.html"] def parse(self, response): print response hxs = HtmlXPathSelector(response) ``` But when i run the above code i am getting this error as below ``` ValueError: Missing scheme in request url: example.html ``` Finally my intension is to scrape the `example.html` file that consists of `www.example.com` html code saved in my local system Can any one suggest me on how to assign that example.html file in start_urls Thanks in advance