scrapy-httpcache 0.0.5

A middleware to cache http response for Scrapy

Overview

scrapy-httpcache is a scrapy middleware to save http cache in mongodb. Besides, scrapy-httpcache contains two extra storage plugin, including request_error_storage and banned_storage. request_error_storage can save Request which occur error. banned_storage can save Banned Request whose block_checker can be override.

Requirements

• Python 3.3+

• Works on Linux, Windows, Mac OSX, BSD

Install

The quick way:

pip install scrapy-httpcache

OR copy this middleware to your scrapy project.

Documentation

In settings.py, for example:

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# SCRAPY HTTPCACHE SETTINGS
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES.update({
    'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpcache.HttpCacheMiddleware': None,
    'scrapy_httpcache.downloadermiddlewares.httpcache.AsyncHttpCacheMiddleware': 900,
})

HTTPCACHE_ENABLED = True
HTTPCACHE_IGNORE_HTTP_CODES = [301, 302, 500, 503]
HTTPCACHE_STORAGE = 'scrapy_httpcache.extensions.httpcache_storage.MongoDBCacheStorage'
HTTPCACHE_MONGODB_HOST = '127.0.0.1'
HTTPCACHE_MONGODB_PORT = 27017
HTTPCACHE_MONGODB_USERNAME = 'root'
HTTPCACHE_MONGODB_PASSWORD = 'password'
HTTPCACHE_MONGODB_CONNECTION_POOL_KWARGS = {}
HTTPCACHE_MONGODB_AUTH_DB = 'admin'
HTTPCACHE_MONGODB_DB = 'cache_storage'
HTTPCACHE_MONGODB_COLL = 'cache'

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# SCRAPY HTTPCACHE BANNED SETTINGS (optional)
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
BANNED_STORAGE = 'scrapy_httpcache.extensions.banned_storage.MongoBannedStorage'

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# SCRAPY HTTPCACHE REQUEST ERROR SETTINGS (optional)
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
REQUEST_ERROR_STORAGE = 'scrapy_httpcache.extensions.request_error_storage.MongoRequestErrorStorage'

If you want to remove banned response, use send_catch_log_deferred to send signal to scrapy_httpcache.signals.remove_banned with kwargs contains (spider, response, exception), which callback function return a Deferred.