scrapy-dot-items 0.1.1

A Scrapy addon that allows to access arguments via the dot

Title

Description

Simplifies the scrapy items, letting you access the attriburtes via the dot

regular_scrapy_item['some_field'] = 42 # the regular bulky way to do it
print(regular_scrapy_item.get('some_field'))

scrapy_dot_item.some_field = 42  # the simple dot-items way
print(scrapy_dot_item.some_field)

Installation

pip install scrapy-dot-items

Usage

Apply to a single scrapy item class

You can add functionality with the dot_item decorator to a single class

from scrapy_dot_items import dot_item

@dot_item
class RealEstateItem(scrapy.Item):
    price = scrapy.Field()

dot_scrapy_item = RealEstateItem()

dot_scrapy_item.price = 1000
print(dot_scrapy_item.price)  # prints 1000

Apply to all scrapy items

You can apply this functionality globally

from scrapy_dot_items import dot_items_globally

dot_items_globally()  # now every scrapy.Item class will have this functionality

class RealEstateItem(scrapy.Item):
    price = scrapy.Field()

dot_scrapy_item = RealEstateItem()

dot_scrapy_item.price = 1000
print(dot_scrapy_item.price)  # prints 1000