Usage

Turn downloader on, e.g. specifying it in settings.py:

DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {
    'scrapy_html_storage.HtmlStorageMiddleware': 10,
}

None of responses by default are saved to disk. You must select for which requests the response HTMLs will be saved:

def parse(self, response):
     """Processes start urls.

     Args:
         response (HtmlResponse): scrapy HTML response object.
     """
     yield scrapy.Request(
         'http://target.com',
         callback=self.parse_target,
         meta={
           'save_html': True,
         }
     )

The file path where HTML will be stored is resolved with spider method response_html_path. E.g.:

class TargetSpider(scrapy.Spider):
    def response_html_path(self, request):
        """
        Args:
            request (scrapy.http.request.Request): request that produced the
                response.
        """
        return 'html/last_response.html'

Configuration

HTML storage downloader middleware supports such options:

• gzip_output (bool) - if True, HTML output will be stored in gzip format. Default is False.

• save_html_on_status (list) - if not empty, sets list of response codes whitelisted for html saving. If list is empty or not provided, all response codes will be allowed for html saving.

Sample:

HTML_STORAGE = {
    'gzip_output': True,
    'save_html_on_status': [200, 202]
}