scrapy- how to stop Redirect (302)

scrapy, web-crawler, web-scraping

Solution

yes you can do this simply by adding meta values like

meta={'dont_redirect': True}

also you can stop redirected for a particular response code like

meta={'dont_redirect': True,"handle_httpstatus_list": [302]}

it will stop redirecting only 302 response codes. you can add as many http status code you want to avoid redirecting them.

example

yield Request('some url',
    meta = {
        'dont_redirect': True,
        'handle_httpstatus_list': [302]
    },
    callback= self.some_call_back)

Problem

I'm trying to crawl a url using Scrapy. But it redirects me to page that doesn't exist. ``` Redirecting (302) to <GET http://www.shop.inonit.in/mobile/Products/Inonit-Home-Decor--Knick-Knacks-Cushions/Shor-Sharaba/Andaz-Apna-Apna-Cushion-Cover/1275197> from <GET http://www.shop.inonit.in/Products/Inonit-Home-Decor--Knick-Knacks-Cushions/Shor-Sharaba/Andaz-Apna-Apna-Cushion-Cover/pid-1275197.aspx> ``` The problem is http://www.shop.inonit.in/Products/Inonit-Home-Decor--Knick-Knacks-Cushions/Shor-Sharaba/Andaz-Apna-Apna-Cushion-Cover/pid-1275197.aspx exists, but http://www.shop.inonit.in/mobile/Products/Inonit-Home-Decor--Knick-Knacks-Cushions/Shor-Sharaba/Andaz-Apna-Apna-Cushion-Cover/1275197 doesn't, so the crawler cant find this. I've crawled many other websites as well but didn't have this problem anywhere else. Is there a way I can stop this redirect? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks. Update: This is my spider class ``` class Inon_Spider(BaseSpider): name = 'Inon' allowed_domains = ['www.shop.inonit.in'] start_urls = ['http://www.shop.inonit.in/Products/Inonit-Gadget-Accessories-Mobile-Covers/-The-Red-Tag/Samsung-Note-2-Dead-Mau/pid-2656465.aspx'] def parse(self, response): item = DealspiderItem() hxs = HtmlXPathSelector(response) title = hxs.select('//div[@class="aboutproduct"]/div[@class="container9"]/div[@class="ctl_aboutbrand"]/h1/text()').extract() price = hxs.select('//span[@id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_Price_ctl00_spnWebPrice"]/span[@class="offer"]/span[@id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_Price_ctl00_lblOfferPrice"]/text()').extract() prc = price[0].replace("Rs. ","") description = [] item['price'] = prc item['title'] = title item['description'] = description item['url'] = response.url return item ```

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